Confirmed issue opening XPS files in Windows 10/11

Although Redmond officials have always said that the core of Windows 11 is quality, no operating system is perfect, and sometimes problems appear when you least expect them.

Earlier today we talked about how Windows 11-capable CPUs with VAES are vulnerable to data corruption, and now it’s time to sound another alarm about the operating system Microsoft designed.

Microsoft has just issued a notification to Windows 10 and 11 users about a new known issue in the operating system.

XPS files cannot be opened on Windows 10 and Windows 11

From what we can see on the Windows Health Dashboard documentation page, Windows is currently experiencing issues when opening specific XPS documents Difficulty (Microsoft's Adobe PDF alternative, not related to Dell's XPS product line).

After installing update KB5014666 or later, XPS Viewer may be unable to open XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents in certain non-English languages, including certain Japanese and Chinese character encodings.

Please note that the above issue affects XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Open XML Paper Specification (OXPS) files.

When encountering this issue, you may get an error like "This page cannot be displayed in the XPS Viewer" or it may stop responding and have high CPU usage along with constant memory usage increased circumstances.

The Redmond tech giant also said that if XPS Viewer does not close when encountering the error, it may reach up to 2.5GB of memory usage before unexpectedly closing.

In addition to being unable to open XPS and OXPS documents in non-English languages, the XPS Viewer stopped responding and started consuming CPU and RAM resources until it reached 2.5GB of RAM usage. time crash.

Microsoft officials stated that the problem originated from KB5014666 and KB5014666 (Windows 10 19044.1806 and Windows 11 22000.778) released from June 26 to 28.

The tech giant is now busy investigating the bug and has promised to release a fix in an upcoming release. Unfortunately, there is no temporary solution.

Keep in mind that this issue doesn’t even bother the vast majority of average Windows 10 consumers in any way, shape, or form.

In addition to the XPS format failing to gain traction, Microsoft has stopped bundling Windows 10 with the XPS Viewer in version 1803.

That being said, you can install XPS Viewer as an optional Windows component in the Settings application if that's what you want.

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