April’s Windows 11 update is trapping some PCs in a boot loop

Last week, Microsoft released update KB5083769 for Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 on April’s Patch Tuesday, and unsurprisingly that update is causing issues for users. We previously reported that users were being locked out of their PCs after being asked to input their BitLocker recovery keys. This is a different issue altogether.

A segment of affected users have reported on Microsoft’s support forums that their computers are ending up in “death loops” after installing update KB5083769. In such cases...