Go through this thread – Blank Screen Error (Windows) – (and other threads it links to) really thoroughly. I think it eventually encompassed a few separate errors but also solutions to some of them.
You seem like a real hacker. I still don’t use Windows 11; I’d use Windows 7, but so many new software versions have been released that don’t support Windows 7.
It’s just that the more Windows evolves, the more problems it creates.
I have an old program that I run in a virtual machine back in Windows XP, and it works perfectly even in Windows 11 – it’s also installed virtually. So there’s always a solution.
There is even an article about it: Windows 11 had 20+ major update problems in 2025 and and 2026 started badly too. What are you doing, Microsoft?
Just weeks into 2026, Windows 11 is already tripping over itself again. As Windows Latest recently reported, the “January 2026 update KB5074109 shipped with a fresh set of problems”, including black screens and frozen Outlook POP accounts. That update made it very clear that whatever lessons Microsoft was supposed to learn in 2025, it didn’t.
Windows 11 is at a point where it is hated by virtually everyone on the internet, and Microsoft just doesn’t seem to care. We checked through our posts from 2025 and made a list of all the issues that the most popular desktop operating system gave to its users in the last year. 2025 has been a catastrophe for Microsoft, with more issues than ever before.
There’s no need to remove it; they patched holes in it created by other updates, and it will continue to do so forever. I keep it simple: I remove the update altogether and reinstall it once a year or so, when people have definitely verified that the crashes have stopped.
But you can do whatever you want, although of course you can install a virtual machine on your computer, install another operating system and use Anki there.
A Windows update was one of the specific issues mentioned in the thread I linked you to.
Fortunately, Windows fixed the problem then. Hopefully they’ll fix it this time too. For now, it sounds like you’ve got alternate ways to study until they do.
– it’s also installed virtually. So there’s always a solution.