Windows 10 brings new headaches for users all over the world, and that's because a solution for one problem with the operating system brings other problems for those who have installed it on their own PCs now. Specifically, a fix for a serious security problem that was discovered in Windows 10 brings other problems for those who use printers, scanners, or other types of multifunction devices along with their PCs.
Windows 10 has these problems officially confirmed by the Microsoft company, without it offering any solution to solve them, but the Americans still say that they are working on a solution that will be available soon. According to those from Microsoft, all versions of Windows 10 that have installed the latest patch for the operating system are affected by what is happening at the moment, so that no one is exempt from the headaches that have arisen now.
Windows 10: The Change That Generates a Big New Problem
Windows 10 has problems with printing/scanning accessories that use PIV smart cards for authentication, and this is due to a change for a domain controller in the idea of improving overall security. Apart from Windows 10, including Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 are also affected by what is happening, so even in the case of these updates you will have problems using these accessory devices to print something, or do a scan.
“After installing the updates released on July 13, 2021 on domain controllers (DCs) in your environment, printers, scanners, and multifunction devices that do not conform to section 3.2.1 of the RFC 4556 specification may not print when uses smart card authentication (PIV)."
Windows 10 had a multitude of problems with printers this year, some of them even allowing administrator privileges to be taken over by those exploiting a series of vulnerabilities discovered even recently. Those from Microsoft have been struggling to fix all these very serious problems that have been reported by people, but unfortunately here they fix something in one module of Windows 10, but unfortunately another one appears in another module, and this has been happening for years.
Windows 10 still has some problems brought by recent updates, and solutions for them will come soon enough, at least according to Microsoft.
