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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerUpdated 4 Windows 11 24H2 machines (3 desktops and 1 laptop with a mix of Home/Pro) with no issues so far.
Did the usual Macrium Images before doing the updates, of course.
One thing I have noticed on all machines after updating is if you run sfc /scannow it says that it has found corrupted files and fixed them.
It does the same thing if you run it again and again. This has been reported on other forums as well.
I (and others) are suspecting there are no corrupted files and it’ s a ‘bug’.
I believe people were also reporting this issue after the release of 24H2 and also after installing the Preview Update that was released recently but I didn’t install that.
Doesn’t seem to be causing any issues (at the moment anyway).
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerI seem to recall seeing this “Power Automate” in Windows 11 23H2 earlier this year but it wasn’t in Edge.
From memory, I saw it in the old Control Panel and I ended up uninstalling it (can’t remember if it was a ‘normal’ uninstall or I had to resort to ‘other means’ to remove it) and I haven’t seen it come back since.
I don’t know if uninstalling it from Windows has anything to do with me not seeing it now in Edge? Probably not.
But, as I’ve said, I’ll wait and see what happens after I install this weeks Patch Tuesday updates (after making the mandatory Macrium image beforehand, of course).
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerOctober 6, 2024 at 1:01 am in reply to: Rufus posts unsupported CPU bypass for Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade.. #2708050Thanks Alex.
I used this to upgrade an “unsupported” PC to 24H2 last week.
I believe the current version of Rufus (4.5) still works for clean installs of 24H2 though (with the bypasses ‘ticked’ in the options).
The “unsupported” CPU’s still require POPCNT and SSE4.2 – there’s no known ways to bypass those at the moment.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerInteresting.
I updated 4 machines from 23H2 to 24H2 last week, 3 desktops and 1 laptop with a ‘mix’ of Home and Professional (using the ISO file, not Windows Update) and I haven’t seen this or anything else added to Edge so far.
I also haven’t installed any Windows Preview Updates (I never do).
Edge is also up to date on all 4 machines.
I’ll wait to see what happens after Patch Tuesday this week.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerI’m curious to know what version of Windows 11 “b” is running?
As I’ve said – I have never had the option to right click and delete that “Get Started” icon from the Start Menu.
I did know that the “Recommended” section can only be removed from Education or Enterprise editions but I’m sure I saw something a few months back where people testing beta versions of 24H2 reported that they could now remove the Recommended section and other things like that persistent and annoying “Get Started” icon from the Start Menu even in the Professional and Home versions.
If that was true then Microsoft must have changed their minds since then about allowing these things to be (easily) removed.
I did read that there was a way to remove “Get Started” which involved removing the entire “Windows Experience Pack” (or whatever it’s called) but doing that usually caused other problems.
I don’t care if the “Experience Pack”, “app” or whatever that is responsible for the icon is still there, I would just like the icon removed from the Start Menu.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerThat’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.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerSomething has been bothering me about my upgrades to 24H2.
I could have sworn that I saw something mentioned a few months back (I believe it was on another forum) where the latest Insider builds at the time included the option to remove the useless (to me) “Recommended” section of the Start Menu and other useless and annoying (again, at least to me) things like “Get Started” on the Start Menu?
I found out some time ago how to get rid of “Windows Backup” and several other seemingly unremoveable icons on the Start Menu even though it doesn’t remove the apps (and the icons didn’t come back with 24H2) but this pain in the you-know-what “Get Started” is still stubbornly attached to the Start Menu and it seems that it cannot even be removed with an Exocet missile.
I’ve seen rumours that the “Recommended” section of the Start Menu is being ‘reserved’ for future advertising (what? more?) so that may be the reason why it can’t be removed in the final release of 24H2 but I wish I could get rid of that “Get Started” icon on the Menu (I don’t care if the app itself isn’t removed, I’d just like the icon taken off the Start Menu).
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerI was pleasantly surprised when I upgraded my little 11 inch Lenovo laptop to 24H2 yesterday (it’s 3 years old and Windows 11 supported).
It only has 64GB of non upgradeable eMMC (I think) storage and 4GB of RAM.
I used a Rufus created USB install stick to do the upgrade.
I was expecting the upgrade to fail with a “not enough space” error message (I believe this happened with previous upgrades for owners of machines like this) but the upgrade completed without a hitch.
In fact, after doing a disk cleanup and deleting “Windows old” (the backup files in case you need to revert back to 23H2) I now have about 30GB of free space. I had about 20GB before I commenced the upgrade.
I must say I am impressed.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerThe 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.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerSame 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.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerApril 25, 2024 at 7:19 pm in reply to: FCKG WINDOWS ACTIVATION – do you know this product key number? #2664002Yes indeed. A blast from the past.
In fact, I still have a burned copy of that XP Corporate disc here somewhere that a friend of mine gave me in mid 2001 (he got it from a friend who worked in a computer store) before the ‘official’ release of XP and it used that key of course.
I used it briefly to install XP and see what it was all about and then I bought a legal copy after it was released on October 25th 2001.
I also found this image online at about the same time and it’s always given me a good laugh.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerYou would really have to feel sorry for the people that have no computer skills, and Microsoft release a windows update that causes this problem for them.
Shame on you Microsoft it’s not acceptable!
Indeed. It definitely isn’t acceptable.
Actually, I’m expecting to see something like “To resolve this issue Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 11” any day now.
I don’t believe I’ve ever come across a large company so “tuned out” to their customers’ needs and requests as MS is these days.
For example – we were told no more features will be added to Window 10 and then we get things like Windows Backup and Start Menu cluttering “System” labels added… with no easy way (for the average user, at least) to remove them. And I suspect that’s only the beginning for what will probably happen with Windows 10 between now and October next year.
I don’t know whether all this is due to arrogance or incompetence (probably both) but it has definitely been getting worse lately. Especially since the release of Windows 10 in 2015.
As for my own situation – I hid the KB5034441 update with Windows Update Manager (wumgr) and just installed the monthly cumulative update. No problems with that so far.
Edit: I don’t have a recovery partition by the way – that’s always one of the first things I remove (with diskpart) after a Windows 10 clean install. I use Macrium Reflect for all of my backup needs.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerWhat’s wrong with Snipping Tool? I use it quite a bit in printing.
HP Smart App, I don’t see that anywhere, is it hidden?
Nothing wrong with Snipping Tool but I would never use it and after a clean install of Windows 10 I’ve always deleted it along with everything else I don’t want.
Just for fun I also tried going into the Windows > System32 folder and deleting Snipping Tool directly. Nope… won’t let me do that (even in Safe Mode) because it’s ‘owned’ by “Trusted Installer” and all of the options to modify or remove it are greyed out.
MS sure don’t want it removed, do they? I wonder how much more junk that I’ve removed will slowly start reappearing (and become ‘unremovable’) between now and October 2025 in each month’s Cumulative Updates?
As I’ve said, I wish MS would just leave Windows 10 alone so I can at least have a reasonably stable, (almost) bloat free experience for the next 22 months. I suspect quite a few of us would like that.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerAh, after reading this thread I’ve just noticed that Snipping Tool has sneakily reinstalled itself after this month’s Cumulative Update.
I’d originally removed it (along with most of the other useless bloat) after I did a clean install a few months back by using the Tools option of CCleaner.
It doesn’t appear in the list of Programs to remove in CCleaner Tools this time (which is why I hadn’t noticed it had come back because I check there often) but it’s in Programs and Features in Windows 10’s Control Panel and also in Apps under Settings.
But, if I try to uninstall it I get the error message in the top part of the attached image. If I use Microfix’s Powershell option I get the error in the bottom part. After Googling the top error it says this can result from corrupt or missing system files (which might have been caused by the way I originally removed Snipping Tool with CCleaner).
Oh well… looks like this is something else I’ll just have to ignore along with Windows Backup and the stupid “System” label cluttering up the Start Menu – I’ve found out how to remove that but I don’t bother because I’m sure it will just reappear with each month’s updates.
And Microsoft… please stop all of this nonsense and leave Windows 10 alone. I know you’re probably annoyed that the uptake of Windows 11 has been so dismal after 2 years but there’s no one to blame but youselves for that with the stupid hardware restrictions and trying to ‘sell’ Windows 11 as something new when it’s really just Windows 10 with things moved around (and now harder to find with a lot of things) – it’s really just change for the sake of change.
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Carl D
AskWoody LoungerI’ve also jumped in at the deep end as usual with PC1 in my signature (after making the usual Macrium Reflect backup beforehand).
Just had the monthly Cumulative Update to install, nothing else for me this month.
No problems so far, I’ll update PC2 tomorrow.
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