File Explorer crashes, Starfield unplayable, VMs won't start

October’s Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 22H2 crashed File Explorer on launch — the most frequently used application in Windows. Starfield and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 crashed to desktop. AMD GPU profiles and fan curves reset themselves every reboot, forcing gamers to reconfigure their graphics settings daily. Virtual machines with Secure Boot wouldn’t start. Installation failures piled up. The update managed to simultaneously ruin productivity (Explorer), gaming (Starfield), and development (VMs) — a trifecta of misery covering essentially every computer use case.