New Update Windows 11 version 24H2 is now available for download

[mlnevese]

Installed it yesterday. I hd to run my repair script twice as sfc ws finding corrupted files, but after that i had no problems.

 

[brambedkar59]

Installed preview update and enabled “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available.” but no 24H2 update so far. That probably means MS has blocked it for my device for some reason, so I am not going to risk it and will just wait it out.

If we detect that your device may have an issue, such as an application incompatibility, we may put a safeguard hold in place and not offer the update until that issue is resolved.

How to get new experiences for Windows 11

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Edit: I think I found what's causing the problem, it's Easy Anti-Cheat for the game War Thunder.

Some devices using Easy Anti-Cheat stop responding and receive a blue screen
To safeguard your update experience, we have applied a compatibility hold on devices running the incompatible Easy Anti-Cheat drivers.

Windows 11, version 24H2 known issues and notifications

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Edit 2 : Nope, it's not the Easy Anti-Cheat as that only affects Intel 12th Gen and higher (I missed that part earlier, oops). I have no idea what's blocking the update.

 

[blackice]

Installed preview update and enabled “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available.” but no 24H2 update so far. That probably means MS has blocked it for my device for some reason, so I am not going to risk it and will just wait it out.

How to get new experiences for Windows 11

Today, Pavan Davuluri announced the latest Copilot+ PC innovation and the availability of the Windows 11 2024 Update. We are excited to continue to bring the power of AI and new expe

blogs.windows.com

Edit: I think I found what's causing the problem, it's Easy Anti-Cheat for the game War Thunder.

Windows 11, version 24H2 known issues and notifications

View announcements and review known issues and fixes for Windows 11, version 24H2

learn.microsoft.com

Edit 2 : Nope, it's not the Easy Anti-Cheat as that only affects Intel 12th Gen and higher (I missed that part earlier, oops). I have no idea what's blocking the update.

Same here. It’s just not being offered. I’m on an AMD system.

 

[brambedkar59]

Same here. It’s just not being offered. I’m on an AMD system.

Well, I couldn't resist

Spoiler

Took almost 45 minutes for downloading, installing and booting again to desktop. I used the update assistant.

Edit: New bloatware found, Dev Home (no option to uninstall, ran powershell cmd to uninstall it)

Edit2: Dev Home is not new, but for some reason it wasn't installed on 23H2 for me.

 

[mlnevese]

For me it was Microsoft Teams that made a come back. It was promptly uninstalled.

 

[brambedkar59]

For me it was Microsoft Teams that made a come back. It was promptly uninstalled.

Did you ran a SFC scan after update? Apparantly many people found corrupted after the update. For me it was the bluetooth driver.

 

[I Walk MY Way]

Bluetooth driver same here on a dell desktop..

 

[mlnevese]

Did you ran a SFC scan after update? Apparantly many people found corrupted after the update. For me it was the bluetooth driver.

I have a small script that runs dism to get a clean image then sfc and ends up doing another dism to clean things up. I ran that twice.

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
sfc /scannow
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

save this on a .bat file and run in a promprt with elevated privileges.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Well, I updated a couple of days ago. It seemed to have gone okay until it didn't.
Windows Terminal was broken. Had to completely uninstall it using O&O App Buster because a normal uninstall and reinstall wouldn't fix it. Anyway, after remove+reinstalling it was okay.
On next system boot, after entering password, my desktop was completely black. I only had the TrafficMonitor speed indicator app (available in GitHub) visible in the task bar. CTRL+ALT+DEL, restart windows explorer didn't fix it. After restarting the system, it was fine again. What happened?
Windows.old folder didn't completely delete after deleting using Disk Cleanup tool of Windows. Some VMware related empty folders were there. Uninstalled VMWare but still the same. Then an optional windows update was installed which decreased 8 GB of C drive space. Tried cleaning up using Disk Cleanpup but I wouldn't reclaim any space. Still 8 GB less and still that windows.old folder existed and disk cleanup kept showing it has 8 GB windows update files to delete. Tried, "Dism /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase" which always works to remove unnecessary update files, but it threw an error. So, there was definitely more than one thing wrong with the system.
I decided to restore the system image that was taken by Hasleo Backup prior to installing 24H2. I have Hasleo ISO + some other useful ISOs and tools in my flash drive. But it was stuck at 0% for 25 minutes while restoring. I had no choice but to manually press the restart button then saw that I was totally f****d. All of my SSD partitions were gone. The whole SSD became unallocated space, lol. My Windows, my games, my Linux partition all were gone. But there was nothing important so nothing I coudln't download and install again.
I booted HirenBootCD from the ISO, copied the new Windows 24H2 ISO into the flash drive that I had already downloaded and was located in my HDD. I download everything except games from Steam on my HDD.
So, then I freshly installed 24H2. The initial Windows setup wizard design has changed quite a bit. A bit different from how it has been more or less the same since Windows 10.
Anyway, everything is fine now. Windows feels nice and fast like before. Probably since I downloaded English_International ISO this time not the EN_US which I always used before, there was no Spotify, Photoshop or other placebo app icons on the start menu. Somehow with the same apps installed I have 12 GB more free space on my C drive Mind you I always disable hibernation as well as 7 GB space that Windows pre-allocates to download updates. So my system has at least 11 GB more free space than what Windows ship by default. It was the same in 23H2 yet I have more free space in 24H2. Maybe more space will fill up as more updates are installed.
I don't mind this fresh installation, last time I did was in mid 2023. It's just that I had to download 120 GB game files which with my slow internet took about 34 hours in total My PC hasn't rested for two days.
I may share the potential reason why Hasleo failed (never did before) to restore in the Hasleo thread.

 

[roger_m]

I upgraded a couple of days ago using the Installation Assistant, as the update was not yet available for me in Windows Update yet. I made a backup first. It seems to be faster than the previous build and everything was running fine after the upgrade.

 

[brambedkar59]

Well, I updated a couple of days ago. It seemed to have gone okay until it didn't.
Windows Terminal was broken. Had to completely uninstall it using O&O App Buster because a normal uninstall and reinstall wouldn't fix it. Anyway, after remove+reinstalling it was okay.
On next system boot, after entering password, my desktop was completely black. I only had the TrafficMonitor speed indicator app (available in GitHub) visible in the task bar. CTRL+ALT+DEL, restart windows explorer didn't fix it. After restarting the system, it was fine again. What happened?
Windows.old folder didn't completely delete after deleting using Disk Cleanup tool of Windows. Some VMware related empty folders were there. Uninstalled VMWare but still the same. Then an optional windows update was installed which decreased 8 GB of C drive space. Tried cleaning up using Disk Cleanpup but I wouldn't reclaim any space. Still 8 GB less and still that windows.old folder existed and disk cleanup kept showing it has 8 GB windows update files to delete. Tried, "Dism /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase" which always works to remove unnecessary update files, but it threw an error. So, there was definitely more than one thing wrong with the system.
I decided to restore the system image that was taken by Hasleo Backup prior to installing 24H2. I have Hasleo ISO + some other useful ISOs and tools in my flash drive. But it was stuck at 0% for 25 minutes while restoring. I had no choice but to manually press the restart button then saw that I was totally f****d. All of my SSD partitions were gone. The whole SSD became unallocated space, lol. My Windows, my games, my Linux partition all were gone. But there was nothing important so nothing I coudln't download and install again.
I booted HirenBootCD from the ISO, copied the new Windows 24H2 ISO into the flash drive that I had already downloaded and was located in my HDD. I download everything except games from Steam on my HDD.
So, then I freshly installed 24H2. The initial Windows setup wizard design has changed quite a bit. A bit different from how it has been more or less the same since Windows 10.
Anyway, everything is fine now. Windows feels nice and fast like before. Probably since I downloaded English_International ISO this time not the EN_US which I always used before, there was no Spotify, Photoshop or other placebo app icons on the start menu. Somehow with the same apps installed I have 12 GB more free space on my C drive Mind you I always disable hibernation as well as 7 GB space that Windows pre-allocates to download updates. So my system has at least 11 GB more free space than what Windows ship by default. It was the same in 23H2 yet I have more free space in 24H2. Maybe more space will fill up as more updates are installed.
I don't mind this fresh installation, last time I did was in mid 2023. It's just that I had to download 120 GB game files which with my slow internet took about 34 hours in total My PC hasn't rested for two days.
I may share the potential reason why Hasleo failed (never did before) to restore in the Hasleo thread.

That sucks man

I updated this Saturday via Installation Assistant after making a backup with Hasleo, and everything seems to work fine. Games are running fine (even the one with EAC) and have not seen any major issues like BSOD or app crashes so far. Found one corrupted file with SFC though, which I am pretty sure is a bug in Windows 11.
24H2 doesn't feel any faster than 23H2 so that was disappointing, as I saw many comments here and also on r/windows11 that said 24H2 felt smoother. I didn't compare the storage used by 23H2 and 24H2 so no idea about that. I cleaned up old windows folder by Settings>System>Storage>Temp files.

PS locking Windows with Win+L seems very laggy, anyone else seeing this. Action center animation seems more smoother now.

Edit: I didn't install the Preview CU, so I am still on Build 26100.1742

 

[roger_m]

PS locking Windows with Win+L seems very laggy, anyone else seeing this.

I'm not having that issue. Also, I haven't run SFC, as my computer has been running just fine so far.

 

[Back3]

I upgraded a couple of days ago using the Installation Assistant, as the update was not yet available for me in Windows Update yet. I made a backup first. It seems to be faster than the previous build and everything was running fine after the upgrade.

Did the same with the same results. Just disabled Teams and Photos at startup.

 

[blackice]

I decided to wait. I have little free time lately and my games have been working great with 23H2, especially with the branch prediction update for Ryzen. I’m in no rush and just want my stuff to work.

 

[Jonny Quest]

I decided to wait. I have little free time lately and my games have been working great with 23H2, especially with the branch prediction update for Ryzen. I’m in no rush and just want my stuff to work.

Same here, especially on one of my work PC's. I don't need this version breaking what's been working well with the installed software.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Games are running fine (even the one with EAC) and have not seen any major issues like BSOD or app crashes so far.

I play a game that also uses EAC and no issue for me also.

24H2 doesn't feel any faster than 23H2 so that was disappointing

For me speed feels similar. 23H2 wasn't slow by any means so any improvement is probably hard to notice for most of us.

PS locking Windows with Win+L seems very laggy, anyone else seeing this.

I'm not having such issue but on mine after turning on the PC when I run explorer for the first time, it opens slower than it did before. I can see animation of things appearing on the window. Only happening on first run. The taskbar icons are sometimes loading with a delay at startup. Not always but sometimes the network indicator icon for example appears grey as if unclickable for a second before becoming normal. Minor things but noticeable.

 

[brambedkar59]

I play a game that also uses EAC so not issue for me also.

For me speed feels similar. 23H2 wasn't slow by any means so maybe any improvement is probably hard to notice for most of us.

I'm not having such issue but on mine after turning on the PC when I run explorer for the first time, it opens slower than it did before. I can see animation of things appearing on the window. Only happening on first run. The taskbar icons are sometimes loading with a delay at startup. Not always but sometimes the network indicator icon for example appears grey as if unclickable for a second before becoming normal. Minor things but noticeable.

Can confirm that explorer bug when opening first time after boot.

 

[Gengis Khan]

I did the update and had no problems using the 24h2 version. But I was forced to ignore the core isolation service because it gives me a driver incompatibility
error and I can't solve this problem.
I ask if anyone can give me the solution, I would be very grateful.

 

[lokamoka820]

I'm still on 23H2 and noticed that file explorer have some issues, maybe it is not related to 24H2 update.

 

[Dreams&Visions]

Installed it on both backup machines without any hassle (clean install via USB) 2 days ago, will upgrade my main machine once back home. No warnings of incompatible hardware or else. Both were on Windows 11 23H2 before.
Running smooth so far.
Shadow Defender is not running anymore (Windows blocks it's installation via software compatibility check), however this was known.
EDIT: There is a possible workaround, however according to "never change a running system", I won't try it.

Spoiler: Hardware

Intel® Core™ i7-12700, Windows 11 Pro, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 LHR, 2 TB SSD, 16 GB RAM
Backup laptops:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1, Windows 11 Home, 500 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U, Windows 11 Pro, 1 TB HDD + 128 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM