Many persistent errors in Event Viewer after Windows 11 build 22598.ni_release.220408-1503: "Autopilot.dll wil error was reported"

Question

I used to be part of the the Windows 11 Insider Beta channel. After updating to build 22598.ni_release.220408-1503 I began to see the same error in Event Viewer extremely frequently:

The errors are all the same and read as follows:

Autopilot.dll WIL error was reported.

HRESULT: 0x80070491

File: onecoreuap\admin\moderndeployment\autopilot\dll\dllmain.cpp, line 128

Message: NULL

I have never used any program called Autopilot or Modern Deployment. After seeing this problem I immediately left the insider program and am now queued for enrollment. However no new Windows update has happened and these errors persist. How do I prevent these errors?

Answer 1

Poor MS employees! I burst into tears! I say this: Fix it, fix it, fix it! It is absolutely unnecessary what is happening here... as usual. Who at MS really cares? Certainly not the CEO or any other management. Why am I having over 1600 unnecessary errors in the Event viewer?

Answer 2

I am suffering this issue now for several weeks. Event Viewer just full of Autopilot.dll WIL errors. Really regretting my upgrade to Win 11.

I live in hope - and disgust at the lack of action.

Or even some admission of guilt.

Yours tearfully.

Answer 3

I am still on Windows 10 & also getting the issue so not specific to your upgrade to version 11, for items recorded in event viewer commence on restart after installing August WUD's on 10th August, no entries prior to this. I don't appear to have the issue on an old Windows 8.1 laptop but that is close to EOS - sometimes wonder if you are better turning off monthly updates altogether, years ago when WUD's did not exist, computers had no problems. Once again, fair to assume that this is something initiated by MS for some underhand reason.

Answer 4

This issue is not exclusive to users who have only a local account.

I have this error(s, they are increasing exponentially!) as well and I use a Microsoft account to log in.

Specifications: Windows 11, Version 21H2, build 22000.856

I also confirmed that the process responsible for the error is wlidsvc (Microsoft Account Sign-in Assistant).

The only difference in my error log is that the error occurs at line 138, rather than 128.

How can you disable the Sign-in Assistant?

Answer 5

It is because his posts are untrustworthy. He doesn't provide any documentation or rationale.

Never delete a file or run a code if you are not 100% sure of what that will do exactly. Generally, don't take any post written here, which suggests interfering with your system, at face value.