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ISSUE 21.40.1 • 2024-10-01 By Susan Bradley It’s not that 24H2 was unexpected — but we had very, very little notice. You won’t be surprised by this ad
[See the full post at: MS-DEFCON 2: Windows 11 24H2 is out!]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Under Consumers, what is
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To clarify, What does “Fi” here refer to? Asking Susan as she was the one who posted this item with no explanation.
-- rc primak
This should be raised to DEADCON or THEFT-PRO status. Because a day after 24H2 installed “smoothly” on my Win 11 Pro / ASUS NUC 14 PRO+ Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 185H PC, MS then deactivated my licensed Win11 Pro key and told me something about how my hardware had changed, when it clearly hadn’t. It then asked me to buy a new license. Fortunately, I kept the license key from the disk and tried that and it did accept the 23H2 key from this disk to reactivate my license. So installers beware. Make sure you have a license key handy before you try this install or the spooky man is going to get you!
Same thing happened to me.
I downloaded the 24H2 ISO last night and upgraded 2 Windows 11 Professional desktop machines this morning using the ISO (both machines are “supported” with 11th and 12th Generation CPU’s, TPM 2.0, etc.).
My activation had gone on both machines after the upgrade but fortunately I have the Product Keys for both installations and after entering the keys they are now both activated again.
Oddly enough I’ve just finished upgrading my little Lenovo laptop with Windows 11 Home (came with Windows 10 Home originally but I did a clean install of 11 earlier this year) and the activation is still valid.
Now I need to move on to my other desktop with a 4th Generation unsupported CPU with no TPM 2.0 which has been running Windows 11 Home 23H2 (by using the Rufus bypasses) up until now with no problems apart from being a little slower by today’s standards but still quite acceptable to me.
This machine will not upgrade to 24H2 with the ISO (as I expected but I thought I’d try it anyway) but it also will not upgrade with a Rufus (latest version 4.5) created USB installer stick with all the ‘mandatory’ requirements removed.
This has been reported to the creator(s) of Rufus so I’ll just wait and see if they come up with a workaround, even if it means doing a clean install of 24H2.
The Rufus people have already come up with a temporary ‘workaround’ which involves making 5 Registry changes before commencing the upgrade to 24H2 on “unsupported” machines like the one I have here.
They will be including this ‘fix’ in the next Rufus release.
My “unsupported” 4th Generation CPU machine (it’s an ASUS H81M-PLUS motherboard from about 10 years ago) is now running 24H2. And running very well, I might add.
With Windows 11 24H2 Microsoft has released Office 2024 ($149.99)
Office Home & Business 2024 $249.99
I got a big suprise. I have been on Wubdiws 11 23H2 on a older pc. I had to originally update the registry to allow the upgrade from windoes 10. However now I realise that 24H2 will not run on my pc and I dont believe there is a upgrade path. That leaves me with a version o fwindows 11 with no way to move forward. I understand that there is an instruction that my machine does not support, but now I am stuck.
Thanks for your continuing good articles.
Gerry
What does “Fi” here refer to? Asking Susan …
Ask me. I post all the newsletter stuff, so the typos are my fault.
Except this time. I’ll spare the techie details, but WordPress mangled something and I didn’t notice. It’s fixed now online. Sorry about the email.
Formatting error(s). Got it. And yes, that would be an editorial matter, not something Susan got wrong.
-- rc primak
To save anyone else looking, the fix in the online version simply involves the removal of “Fi”.
Can anyone clarify what the new feature “[Windows Update opt-in notifications] They now appear when you sign in” means in the KB5043131 (OS Build 19045.4957) Win 10 Preview of 24-Sep-2024?
Exactly what would I be opting in to (e.g., an upgrade to Win 11?, unpausing of Windows Updates?) and will there be a setting at Settings | System | Notifications & Actions to turn off this notification?
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.4894 * Firefox v131.0.0 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.24080.9-1.1.24080.9 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.1.11.133-1.0.5048 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783
Reports of bsod
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Anything to do with drivers do not get updated in enterprises easily. This is the real world of deployed machines.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
If you have used GP to block location services, and it is required, you will get the notification to contact the administrator (you are the administrator if you can use GP). We see this all the time in relation to Windows Update when GP has been used to control updates.
As an example, from my Windows Update, these policies are the ones set in GP.
The Sign out command is now on the account manager when the Start menu is opened. To change to a different user, select the ellipsis — a list of other users appears to make it easier to switch.
Once again Microsoft has succeeded in making something simple into something complex.
Does anyone know how to kill this “improvement” so users don’t have to have a class on how to sign out of their computers?
Does anyone know how to kill this “improvement” so users don’t have to have a class on how to sign out of their computers?
Hi MHCLV941:
According to the 25-Sep-2024 TechRadar article Following a backlash around a recent Windows 11 Start menu change, Microsoft reverses course in new preview build this change will be rolled back in a future release in Windows 11.
“You may recall that the introduction of the new account manager section to the Start menu caused controversy because it buried a useful option under another layer of the menu. This was the option to sign out, which was shifted from being right there in the Start menu’s profile panel, to being hidden behind the three-dot menu (top-right) in the new account manager panel (that replaced the previous profile UI).
The good news is that Microsoft has been listening to the folks complaining that they don’t want to be forced to perform another click to sign out of their account, so in this preview build, the option is back where it was before, with no need for any extra clicking to reach it. Also, Microsoft notes that you can switch user profiles by clicking the three-dot icon and choosing one from the menu that appears.”
According to Mayank Parmar’s 12-Sep-2024 WindowsLatest article Windows 10’s Start menu tests new layouts for Microsoft 365 manager a similar “three dots” (ellipsis) menu is also planned for the account manager section of the Windows 10 Start menu of but I’m hoping that won’t happen now.
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.4894 * Firefox v131.0.0 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.24080.9-1.1.24080.9 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.1.11.133-1.0.5048 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783
Get Started can be unpinned from the Start Menu after a right-click:
The Recommended section of the Start menu can only be removed from Education or Enterprise editions:
That’s interesting.
I’m running 2 PC’s with Windows 11 Professional 24H2 and one with Windows 11 Home 24H2. The 2 Professional PC’s are “supported”, the Home one isn’t.
I also have a supported laptop with Windows 11 Home 24H2. All 4 machines are upgrades from 23H2 and they all show the same options when I right click Get Started. These are the only options I’ve ever seen since I started using Windows 11.
Strange.
Same here. Adding insult to injury, there is nothing pertinent in App Settings.
Now on 24H2. no probs.
Turned WuMgr off.
Started 24H2 setup on usb stick.
It seemed to be d/l a lot of updates…(10 min)
Actual update took about 25 min. (so ~35min tot)
Turn WuMgr back on.
Remove Edge with Revo Uninstaller Pro.
Remove old windows with windows clean in windows tools in control panel.
I used Rufus latest. I checked everything except the first one (bypass req for mem and security).
Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
Installed on Sat 10/5/2024
OS build 26100.1742
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.18.0
It did not ask me for a key. (key is win10 retail)
Note here: I was NOT offered 24H2 as an update even though I had a very current machine on 23H2. I used the Rufus iso route. WuMgr.
My guess is simply that you need to do it via the iso route, preferably the Rufus iso route. Just my 2 cents!!!
Note here: I was NOT offered 24H2 as an update even though I had a very current machine on 23H2. I used the Rufus iso route. WuMgr.
My guess is simply that you need to do it via the iso route, preferably the Rufus iso route. Just my 2 cents!!!
I understand. I know I “can”, I’m just not feeling the urge to upgrade at present.
I found out that bootmgr.efu is still signed with the old (2011) certificate…
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