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AskWoody PlusIf you don’t like to make changes to the registry yourself, you can use the program Winaeor Tweaker to make this change. It can also make other changes related to Windows 11 and other versions of Windows.
https://winaero.com/winaero-tweaker/
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BillH
AskWoody PlusI have Win 11 Home 23H2 with Secure Boot, but not Bitlocker. I was expecting the worst, but it only required two normal restarts. No additional steps were required.
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AskWoody PlusOK. That is a bit weird though. I’ve seen in several places that people are using WUMT with Windows 10 Home and Windows 11 Home. Do you have any more specifics on what doesn’t work on Home editions?
Thanks,
Bill
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AskWoody PlusSorry, I didn’t think it would matter. The Win 10 computer is Win 10 Pro. The laptop is Win 11 Home.
Thanks,
Bill
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AskWoody PlusIf you have upgraded to Win11 from Windows 10 your Recovery partition is probably 4GB+
With W11 clean OEM/install it is probably > 500MBMine is a new Win 11 laptop that has never been updated. I used the instructions Susan gave to determine how much free space the recovery drive has. It shows it has 89 MB of free space out of about 732 MB total.
Bill
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AskWoody PlusI installed the new update on Windows 11 Pro with no problems – maybe a little slow. I wondered what all the fuss was about.
The horror, the horror…
Mark
Did you have less than 250 MB of free space on your recovery drive?
Bill
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AskWoody PlusShe also said, “While I’ve not seen issues with Windows 11, I have seen issues with Windows 10.”
Yes, but just because she hasn’t seen any issues doesn’t mean there might not be issues. The recovery partition on my Win11 laptop doesn’t have 250 MB free space. I just want to make sure the cumulative update won’t fail. Has anyone with a Win 11 machine with less than 250 MB free space been successful in installing the January cumulative update?
Bill
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AskWoody PlusThat sounds right.
Use WUMT to hide updates you don’t want and download/install the ones you want.Thanks PKCano.
Bill
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AskWoody PlusSo for Windows 11 is the only option to block the entire cumulative update?
There’s no reason to do so, as there are no known issues with January 2024 updates for Windows 11 versions 22H2/23H2.
I’m confused. In her article Susan said “It’s important to remember that updates for WinRE can be included in cumulative updates, as they currently are for Windows 11. When that is the case, and the conditions for the installation of the WinRE update are not met, the entire cumulative update may fail to install.” Is that incorrect?
Bill
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AskWoody PlusAfter you get Windows Update under WUMT control, you no longer need Metered Connections.
So I turn on metered connections.
Un-pause Windows Updates.
Run WUMT and hide the update.
Turn off metered connections.Then next month Windows update will not download and install anything, but I can do so using WUMT. Is that all correct? I am not all that technical and this is very confusing for me.
Thanks.
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AskWoody PlusHi Susan,
Thanks for the info.
I do have a question though: If I understand correctly from your posts and from information on the internet this update only applies to Windows 10 (21H2 and 22H2), not to Windows 11. Is that correct?
If so, maybe the defcon should be different for Windows 10 and Windows 11? I mainly use Windows 11, so that is a valuable distinction for meThanks,
FrankKB5034441 is a separate security update for Windows 10. It’s included in the January 2024 cumulative update for Windows 11. If the recovery partition is too small then the entire cumulative update will fail.
So for Windows 11 is the only option to block the entire cumulative update?
Bill
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AskWoody PlusSo, do I need to keep metered connections turned on or can I turn it off after I run WUMT?
Thanks,
Bill
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AskWoody PlusOr Windows finally decided to check for updates….
cheers, Paul
I did check for updates several times. That didn’t work. Only when I released In Control did it work and it did so immediately.
Bill
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AskWoody PlusRead through this thread 22h2-update.
Thanks for the link to that other thread. I have done everything mentioned in that thread I think. It has been about 6 or 7 hours since I made the change. Guess I’ll just have to wait a bit longer.
Bill
Strange. After waiting for awhile longer and not getting offered 22H2, I decided to try something. I “released control” in In Control and was immediately offered 22H2 which I then installed. It appears that In Control was keeping me from being offered 22H2 despite having In Control set to Windows 11 22H2.
Bill
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AskWoody PlusRead through this thread 22h2-update.
Thanks for the link to that other thread. I have done everything mentioned in that thread I think. It has been about 6 or 7 hours since I made the change. Guess I’ll just have to wait a bit longer.
Bill
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