From TechRadar · · 1m 30s
Windows 11's latest update kills audio, and maybe File History
The newest Windows 11 patch is leaving some PCs silent, and reports say it takes File History down with it.
In brief
The newest Windows 11 patch is leaving some PCs silent, and reports say it takes File History down with it. If your PC just went quiet or your backups stopped running, the latest Windows 11 update is the first thing to check. Originally reported by TechRadar.
The sound just stops
After installing the newest Windows 11 update, some people find their speakers and headphones produce nothing at all. The hardware is fine, the patch is not.
File History reportedly dies
Alongside the audio problem, users report that File History, the built-in tool that quietly keeps versioned copies of your documents, stops doing its job after the update.
Not every PC is hit
The failures show up on some machines and not others, which makes the bug hard to predict. Two identical-looking laptops can come out of the same update with different results.
Broken backups hurt more
Silence is annoying, but a backup tool that fails silently is worse. You only discover File History stopped running at the moment you need to recover a file.
Check before you panic
Match the timing. If sound or backups broke right after a Windows update landed, look at your update history first rather than replacing drivers or hardware.
Wait for the fix
Problems like these usually get patched in a follow-up release. Until then, pausing updates on a machine that still works normally is the low-risk move.
The big picture
If your PC just went quiet or your backups stopped running, the latest Windows 11 update is the first thing to check.
