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WSCape Sand wrote:

As a novice, I need a techie to create a registry fix to restore it.

Hi WSCape Sand:

I’m guessing the best you can do is to use the registry edit in the AskVG tutorial Show Seconds in Taskbar Clock in Windows 10 and 11 to add the seconds back to the small “digital” clock on your system tray, but I doubt this will restore the large “analog” clock widget displayed on your calendar flyout.

FYI, you might also be interested reading Abhishek Mishra’s 15-Apr-2025 Windows Latest article Microsoft is adding Clock to Windows 11 Calendar flyout after removing it in Windows 10, which states in part:

“I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it almost seems like Microsoft deliberately pulled the feature from Windows 10 just to add it to Windows 11.”

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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.2 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.11.183-131.0.5227 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

Paul T wrote:

I have W10 Home and the time is displayed …

Hi Paul T:

Is it safe to assume your Win 10 Home machine as been updated with the KB5055518 cumulative Quality update (OS Build 19045.5737) released on 08-Apr-2025? If so, that would seem to disprove WSCape Sand’s theory that the April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates removed the clock from the calendar flyout of all Win 10 Home machines, but not Win 10 Pro machines.

I still suspect the removal of the clock from the calendar flyout will eventually be rolled out to all Win 10 Home and Pro machines, and that WSCape Sand’s Win 10 Home machine just happened  to be one of the first to receive this feature change.
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.2 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

I run Win8.1 and Win10 in Parallels VMs on Intel-based Macs. I run Win11 on ARM in Parallels VMs in M1, M2 and M4 Apple Silicon based Macs.

Windows in a Parallels VMs on Apple Silicon requires Windows 11 on ARM. The Windows Apps that @routtco1001 intends to run must have an ARM version in this case.

If that is not the case, an Intel or AMD based Windows desktop would be a better choice because Intel-based Macs are on the way out. The last are 9th generation Intel.

I would recommend Win11 Pro with a Local ID, unless the Programs needed require a Microsoft ID. Group Policy (available in Pro but not in Home) allows control of Windows Update without having to add third-party software.
As for Security, I run Defender as my A/v, but others here also run a second security software such as Malwarebytes or Bitdefender.
Most of the Windows UWP Apps can be removed using the Command Prompt and/or PowerShell. I do not use them and have removed most from my installations. As for vendor installed OEM software, they can also be removed if you don’t need them. For the most part, I use non-Microsoft software: Firefox, Libre Office, free Adobe Reader, VLC Player, etc. One thing I use that I wouldn’t give up is StartAllBack software to alter the Win11 Menu/Taskbar/Explorer appearance.

Steps to take: Install Win11 (using a Microsoft ID or bypassing it to create a Local ID). Install backup/image software. Make a full disk image as a base. Go through the Settings App, Control Panel, and Group Policy (if you have Pro) to control security and appearance. Install the Apps you need/want. Make a second full disk image as a second base point. Start using your new computer.
One thing you need to address early on – Win11 will encrypt the device by default. How you deal with this will depend on whether you want/need decryption AND whether or not you use a Microsoft ID or Local ID.

 

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EricB wrote:

My settings allow for updating when FF is not running and I don’t see a UAC prompt when updates are installed. Have you considered testing to see if allowing background updates has any effect?

Hi EricB:

Thanks for the confirmation about your automatic Firefox Update settings and absent UAC prompt. Perhaps that explains why you aren’t affected by this bug.

I’m not going to waste any more time troubleshooting this issue – at least for now. According to Robin Steuber’s latest post today in Bugzilla’s Bug # 1941931 the bug fix WAS pushed out today with FF v137.0.2 but affected user’s likely won’t see the effect of the changes until the next Firefox update is released. From her Comment # 83 posted a few hours ago.

“Hopefully that should be the last time. Possibly, depending on the exact version you are on, there could be one more before you get the update that turns the feature off.”

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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.2 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

EricB wrote:

Are you using the Mozilla Maintenance Service in your installation?

Hi EricB:

I assume not, since I believe the UAC prompt shown in my post # 2763566 to allow the Firefox Software Updater to run would not appear if the background Mozilla Maintenance Service was managing the update.

My automatic background updating is disabled at Settings | General | Firefox Updates and the check box next to “When Firefox is not running” that controls the Mozilla Maintenance Service is disabled (see attached image).

My Mozilla Maintenance Service has a Startup Type of Manual and does not automatically start with Windows (see attached image).
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.2 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

Microfix wrote:

Imacri, download the complete 137.0.2 firefox relative to your location, choose the .exe instead of the .msi and do a custom install which will upgrade over-the-top.

Hi Microfix:

There’s no need for me to do an over-the-top update with the full offline installer. As I said in my15-Apr-2025 post # 2763566, the update to v137.0.2 ran to completion after I restarted my computer.

After clicking the buggy “Restart to Update Firefox” button simply closing and opening my Firefox browser wasn’t enough to start the Firefox Software Updater.  This time an extra Windows restart was needed to finish my v137.0.2 installation.
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.2 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

Alex5723 wrote:

Firefox 137.0.2 has been released

Still not fixed on my Win 10 machine.

The v137.0.2 release notes at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0.2/releasenotes/ imply the problem is fixed [“Fixed an issue that caused some Firefox users to restart their browser multiple times to complete an update. (Bug 1959492)] but my update to v137.0.2 was even more problematic than previous updates.

As usual, I triggered a manual check for updates at Help | About Firefox, but this time I had to do a full restart of Windows and then manually launch Firefox before I saw the UAC prompt shown below to run the Firefox Software Updater and complete the update v137.0.2.

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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.2 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

Hi WSCape Sand:

Did you install the Win 10 KB5053643 (OS Build 19045.5679) Preview that was released on 25-Mar-2025? If so, see the 31-Mar-2025 Windows Latest article Windows 10’s “update” turns off seconds on the taskbar’s Calendar flyout.

It’s possible Microsoft added this change to the clock in the calendar flyout of Win 10 in the 25-Mar-2025 KB5053643 Preview build but decided against this planned change in the “regular” 08-Apr-2025 KB5055518 (OS Build 19045.5737) Quality update released with the Patch Tuesday updates due to negative user feedback. It’s also possible this change to the Win 10 clock is being rolled out gradually and you’re one of the unlucky ones that already had it pushed out to your system.
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

not so anon wrote:

I’ve been having the same thing happen since 136…the “Restart Firefox now to update” button is ” broken”, in that it doesn’t close Firefox in a way that lets it update it just closes and immediately reopens it.

I’m having the same problem with the buggy “Restart to Update Firefox” button on my Win 10 Pro v22H2 laptop.  I posted a reply <here> in Larz’s 18-Mar-2025 topic Restart to Update Firefox in the Mozilla Firefox forum and clicked the “I have this problem too” button below Larz’s original post for good measure just in case someone from Mozilla is monitoring that thread.

This issue is being tracked as Bug # 1941931 (Firefox won’t update on restart; it must be closed and then reopened) which confirms this bug exists in FF 136, FF 137, and early betas of FF 138.

From Robin Steuber’s 10-Apr-2025 comment # 81 in that Bugzilla bug report:

“I’m sorry this has been such a nightmare, y’all. I really thought we had it fixed before I went on vacation, and… it’s a long story. Obviously we dropped the ball, since this made it to Release.”

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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

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Hi WSCape Sand:

No problem here. The clock is still present on my Win 10 Pro v22H2 (OS Build 19045.5737) calendar flyout.  My April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates were installed on 11-Apr-2025.

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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

Hi Susan:

I can confirm the System Guard Runtime Monitor Broker service (SgrmBroker.exe) Event ID 7023 errors were NOT fixed on my Win 10 machine and are still being logged in the Event Viewer at Windows Logs | System at every Windows startup, as noted in my post # 2762591 in your topic April 2025 updates out. My April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates were installed on 11-Apr-2025.

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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

Hi Susan:

Windows Update successfully installed all updates offered for the April 2025 Patch Tuesday on my Win 10 Pro v22H2 laptop, and I haven’t noticed any problems so far. This includes:

• KB5055518: 2025-04 Cumulative Update for Win 10 Version 22H2 for x64 (OS Build 19045.5737)
• KB5055683: 2025-04 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.8 and 4.8.1 for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64
• KB5056686: 2025-04 .NET 8.0.15 Security Update for x64 Client

The only surprise so far is that my Windows Update (paused until 11-Apr-2025) did NOT offer this month’s KB5055683 .NET Framework update with my other April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates, so I did not observe the early “Restart Now” glitch that normally occurs when Windows Update delivers a .NET Framework update with my other my Patch Tuesday updates (see the second image in Alex5723’s post # 2761793). However, KB5055683 was delivered by Windows Update when it ran its next automatic check for available updates on 12-Apr-2025 (see attached image), so all is well.

As expected, my April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates:

• Did NOT offer a KB890830 Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) update.
• Did NOT offer this month’s KB5057589 Windows Recovery Environment update for Win 10 mentioned in PKCano’s 09-Apr-2025 post # 2761854 that updates the  WinRE to v10.0.19041.5728 (expected since my since my WinRE partition only has 96.7 MB of free disk space and does not meet the minimum system requirements).
• Created a new empty folder at C:\inetpub folder (see EricB’s 11-Apr-2025 post # 2762221).
• Did NOT fix my System Guard Runtime Monitor Broker service (SgrmBroker.exe) Event ID 7023 error logged once in the Event Viewer at Windows Logs | System during each Windows 10 startup  (see CAS’s 16-Jan-2025 System Guard Runtime Broker Service Error).
• Did NOT fix my DeviceSetupManager Event ID 131 errors logged multiple times a day in the Event Viewer at Applications and Services Logs | Microsoft | Windows | DeviceSetupManager | Admin (see Susan Bradly’s 06-Sep-2024 topic New Windows 11, lots of Events 131).

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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5737 * Firefox v137.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25030.2-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

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Going by that screengrab, I suspect this is the culprit:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/riskware-systemrequirementslab

Being pedantic, it’s more of a Potentially Unwanted Program (“PUP”) than Malware, which might explain why Windows Security and the MS Safety Scanner didn’t pick it up.

That said, I certainly wouldn’t want it on my device and, FWIW, I would delete it from the Malwarebytes Quarantine. Since it has reappeared on your device, I would run another Malwarebytes scan to get rid of further instances of it.

It’s a good move of you to use an adblocker / content blocker, too – the web is becoming almost unusable without one.

I hope it has. I followed the instructions in the first two responses above. Which resulted in a hit on the Malwarebytes scan. I quarantined it and hope I don’t see it again. I’ve attached a jpeg of the scan results.

Thanks for your help.

Ted

Hi Theodore Nicholson:

Further to Paul T’s suggestion, if you aren’t familiar with Malwarebytes Free v5.x my see my 07-Jun-2024 post # 2678804 in crimsoncricket’s Window Security is Behaving Strangely for a few hints on how to configure and use this anti-malware scanner.
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5608 * Firefox v137.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25020.1009-1.1.25030.1 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.10.182-130.0.5212 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783