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

@Rubert

Appreciate you keep the 'discussion' going on. Another quite interesting finding...

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth said "The component store is repairable". The corresponding Event Log event was "0 of 4 instances of system store corruption have been repaired...".

So far so good

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth said "The restoration has been completed". The corresponding Event Log event was "1 of 4 instances of system store corruption have been repaired..."

Not sure I understand???

Same here, that did nothing re. the Autopilot WIL error :(

Answer 2

Due to some other problems I was having, I went with "Recovery -> Reset this PC"... and after making a choice or two along the way, eventually got to and chose the one that basically said "Reset Windows, but please try to keep everything else as intact as possible."...

As a result, I lost a couple of custom shortcuts on my start menu, but mostly everything else was OK. (No big program reinstalls or reconfigurations, for example).

And now, no more of the autopilot errors. 👍

Answer 3

After 3 years of updates over updates over updates... I reinstalled the PC (with 23H2 ISO) keeping nothing

3 days later I haven't seen any Autopilot error

Answer 4

I'd never had this issue before after W10 to W11, updates over updates, an in-place W11 upgrade from ISO and using the installation assistant to get 23H2 - effectively another in-place upgrade.

But last week I was forced to re-install because after a system restore it became unbootable with Critical Process Died BSOD.

I chose to install from USB keeping the partition which created a Windows.old folder but otherwise its was a clean install - except some settings and installed apps are recovered from the cloud during the install.

Since then Ive been getting huge numbers of these events - around 200 a day

There are multiple feedbacks in the Hub and posts going back years and still no resolution or comment.

Just like the Metadata staging issue and others frequently reported - these days the focus seems to be on adding unwanted features instead of testing and actioning feedback.

Answer 5

> 1 month after I reinstalled the PC (with 23H2 ISO) keeping nothing, still not a single Autopilot WIL error...