Symptoms

When you try to print a file on a computer that is running Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012, the computer crashes.This issue occurs when the following conditions are true:

  • You are printing from an application that supports the application isolation feature, such as Microsoft Word 2010.

  • Application isolation is enabled on the computer.

Resolution

Update information

To resolve this issue, install the Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 update rollup 2836988. For more information about how to obtain this update rollup package, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

2836988 Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 update rollup: May 2013

Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

More Information

For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

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