If you are on the Windows 11 “beta” version

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Alex pointed this out earlier, but I wanted to bubble this up to the blog site: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows
[See the full post at: If you are on the Windows 11 “beta” version]

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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abbodi86, Alex5723

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Why not sign with new certificates and refresh the apps ?

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SystemApps can only be updated with CU

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Microsoft just released a patch (KB5008295) to fix this problem.

Releasing Windows 11 KB5008295 to Beta and Release Preview Channels

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Insider, not yet out for released versions.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Now out for released versions.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Windows 11 Upgrade tool that bypasses Microsoft´s requirements

https://github.com/coofcookie/Windows11Upgrade

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I don’t understand why applications working on your local computer, not dealing with the internet, should stop working because of an expired certificate. What happened to the concept of “degrade gracefully” – even if for some reason they contact Microsoft, why should they stop working? But then, I’ve always thought that “operating system as a service” is just a terribly stupid idea.

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In this specific case the experience pack – of which snipping tool is part – was signed with an expiring developer code signature.  This is done to ensure that people can’t run a beta indefinitely.  So when the dev signature expired, the system said “oops sorry, can’t run”.

In general these certificate signing is internal to the operating system in it’s checking and that’s why you can trick it by setting back the clock.

Bottom line someone screwed up and didn’t do the final  release to manufacturing process for Windows 11. (anyone who is old enough to remember when Small Business Server 2003 also had a date bug right after it was released, it’s the same concept).

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Thank you. That was my post – forgot to sign in – and it’s somewhat reassuring to know that this was a “beta” issue and a mature app shouldn’t suddenly stop working at some future point.

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This out-of-band non-security update cures the certificate problem:

2021-11 Update for Windows 11 for x64-based Systems (KB5008295)

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/november-5-2021-kb5008295-out-of-band-5540f171-846c-4af0-b363-29b6f02a8935

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