Microsoft has confirmed that this month's security updates disable usb mice and keyboards in the windows recovery environment (winre), making it unusable. Microsoft's latest security update has rendered usb keyboards and mice inoperable within the windows recovery environment (winre). Keyboard and mice fail in recovery mode after installing the latest october update, you may find that usb input devices refuse to work in the windows recovery environment (winre).
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The problem prevented users from using usb devices, such as keyboard and mouse in the recovery environment
This bug affects devices running windows 11 25h2 or version 24h2, and windows server 2025.
Microsoft has confirmed that the october cumulative update for windows 11 (kb5066835), shipped alongside the 25h2 rollout, introduced a regression that prevents usb keyboards and mice from functioning inside the windows recovery environment (winre), leaving the very tools meant to repair broken.
