Solved Does this look Right How to Download and Install the Windows 11 23H2 Update

godsey786 · Oct 13, 2023

Thanks @starchase (John)

just now upgraded successfully completed from windows 10 to windows 11 (23H2). But copilot is missing or may be didn't install while upgrading windows 11.

Ghot · Oct 13, 2023

@Scott

Then... last night I joined the Release Preview channel and then checked for updates.
I got 2-4 updates... ended up on 22621.2500 ...still 22H2.

And throughout all this... I had the "Get the latest updates... " thing turned ON.

Then I restored from a backup... again. So I'm back to 22621.2428

antspants · Oct 13, 2023

Ghot said:
Then I restored from a backup... again. So I'm back to 22621.2428

The in-place upgrade should bump you up to 22631.2428. But I haven’t yet looked to see what the difference is.

Ghot · Oct 13, 2023

antspants said:
The in-place upgrade should bump you up to 22631.2428. But I haven’t yet looked to see what the difference is.

We're over here...

Let's install Windows 11 on incompatible hardware

A good backup for me would mean to clone my entire 480GB SSD on a spare disk at least once a week, so if everything bad happens I can restore 98-99% of my system. I don't have this kind of backup (shame to me...) but it makes sense to do one such backup right before I upgrade my main PC...

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antspants · Oct 13, 2023

Ghot said:
We're over here...

Let's install Windows 11 on incompatible hardware

A good backup for me would mean to clone my entire 480GB SSD on a spare disk at least once a week, so if everything bad happens I can restore 98-99% of my system. I don't have this kind of backup (shame to me...) but it makes sense to do one such backup right before I upgrade my main PC...

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Cool, cheers

Scott · Oct 13, 2023

Ghot said:
@Scott

Then... last night I joined the Release Preview channel and then checked for updates.
I got 2-4 updates... ended up on 22621.2500 ...still 22H2.

And throughout all this... I had the "Get the latest updates... " thing turned ON.

Then I restored from a backup... again. So I'm back to 22621.2428

Strange...I just did this last night on my Stystem One exactly as I wrote it up, worked perfectly.

Don't think account type matters, @starchase did it with a local account.

What's the name of the ISO you downloaded?

Pirilampo2 · Oct 13, 2023

godsey786 said:
Thanks @starchase (John)

just now upgraded successfully completed from windows 10 to windows 11 (23H2). But copilot is missing or may be didn't install while upgrading windows 11.

Are you from an EU country?

thecaretaker · Oct 13, 2023

You are the guys and gals. I used the second option and downloaded the ISO file to a folder on my desktop, used WinRar to unpack it to the folder and clicked on the start.exe and as if by magic... 23H2

Scott · Oct 14, 2023

starchase said:
But the version and build number reported by this DSIM utility (which states "Version : 10.0.22621 ServicePack Build : 1702") does not match the Winver report which is "Version 23H2 (OS Build 22631.2428"

That's because during the installation process setup downloaded updates.

FIREMEDIC2700 · Oct 16, 2023

starchase said:
According to your post # 20 you are trying to download an upgrade option that was NOT included in the 3 options that were listed in the Techrepublic article. You were downloading the ISO from the 4th option listed on Microsoft's Windows 11 Download page (Download Windows 11), which has you save file named Win11_22H2_English_x64v2.iso . The Techrepublic article says to use any of the first 3 options. If you use the option under "How to install Windows 11 23H2 with the Media Creation Tool" then this would give you version 23H2, which is what I did.

If you are still interested then go to Microsoft's link above, go to "Create Windows 11 Installation Media" and download the file from there, being careful to select the ISO, not the one for use with a USB drive. You will then get an ISO called Windows.iso. Then do this:

1. create a folder on your desktop and name it anything you want, the name is irrelevant. Copy the ISO to this folder as you can't mount it until you copy it and work with the copy.

2. when it is done copying open the folder. Go to the Sources folder and you want to replace the appraiserres.dll file.

3. to create the file open any Notepad type program and I just type a few characters in a file and save it as appraiserres.dll (make sure it doesn't have a .txt extension added). Then replace the existing file in Sources with this new one.

4. finally, run the Setup.exe file and you are on your way to an In-place Upgrade keeping your existing programs and settings.

Easy peasy.

John

Worked for me however i add to use win rar to change the appraiserres.dll file . just opened it up selected all then delete. just typed some random keystrokes and blammo. had 23h2. only draw back is i had to use the insiders beta to get the co pilot feature to work .unless i am missing something .

Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 23H2
Installed on ‎10/‎16/‎2023
OS build 22635.2483
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22676.1000.0

antspants · Oct 16, 2023

FIREMEDIC2700 said:
. just opened it up selected all then delete. just typed some random keystrokes and blammo.

I have never found that anything needs to be entered into the appraiserres.dll file. Just an empty blank file has always worked for me.

Davidoo · Oct 16, 2023

starchase said:
According to your post # 20 you are trying to download an upgrade option that was NOT included in the 3 options that were listed in the Techrepublic article. You were downloading the ISO from the 4th option listed on Microsoft's Windows 11 Download page (Download Windows 11), which has you save file named Win11_22H2_English_x64v2.iso . The Techrepublic article says to use any of the first 3 options. If you use the option under "How to install Windows 11 23H2 with the Media Creation Tool" then this would give you version 23H2, which is what I did.

If you are still interested then go to Microsoft's link above, go to "Create Windows 11 Installation Media" and download the file from there, being careful to select the ISO, not the one for use with a USB drive. You will then get an ISO called Windows.iso. Then do this:

1. create a folder on your desktop and name it anything you want, the name is irrelevant. Copy the ISO to this folder as you can't mount it until you copy it and work with the copy.

2. when it is done copying open the folder. Go to the Sources folder and you want to replace the appraiserres.dll file.

3. to create the file open any Notepad type program and I just type a few characters in a file and save it as appraiserres.dll (make sure it doesn't have a .txt extension added). Then replace the existing file in Sources with this new one.

4. finally, run the Setup.exe file and you are on your way to an In-place Upgrade keeping your existing programs and settings.

Easy peasy.

John

John, I have tried to update to 23H2 using this method and ran into a problem. I created a folder on the desktop and you mention in step 1, then I copy the ISO to the folder and try to copy the file I created in Notebook to replace the apraiserres.dll, but I get a message that there is not enough space on the disk to copy the new file there. I also can't delete the existing apraiserres.dll because I don't have permission. Is there a certain way I have to copy the ISO to the new folder? It seems like just copying them there to the new folder has mounted the ISO and it won't let me change the appraiserres.dll file. I tried just copying everything to a thumb drive and running the setup.exe, but it went through the motions and I still have 22H2.

Stigg · Oct 17, 2023

I do it a bit simpler than that.

I just open my ISO with any application that supports opening and editing of ISOs (e.g. PowerISO, UltraISO etc.) and replace the appraiserres.dll with the dummy one and save it. I then mount it to run setup.exe.

I don't do work like that on the system drive. I do it on my backup / data drive.

Davidoo · Oct 17, 2023

Stigg said:
I do it a bit simpler than that.

I just open my ISO with any application that supports opening and editing of ISOs (e.g. PowerISO, UltraISO etc.) and replace the appraiserres.dll with the dummy one and save it. I then mount it to run setup.exe.

I don't do work like that on the system drive. I do it on my backup / data drive.

Thanks, I'm not sure if that is beyond my skillset or not. I could try that. I just don't see how others were able to edit the dll file after copying the ISO to a new folder.

Scott · Oct 17, 2023

Davidoo said:
I also can't delete the existing apraiserres.dll because I don't have permission. Is there a certain way I have to copy the ISO to the new folder?

Here's what I did on on my unsupported laptop. Copied the ISO to my desktop and used Winrar to extract to Windows\ (it will create the folder on the desktop.

Open the Windows folder and now you can replace the appraiserres.dll file with a blank one.

Navigate back to root of the folder and run setup

You could also use 7zip.
Hope that makes sense.

Stigg · Oct 17, 2023

Davidoo said:
Thanks, I'm not sure if that is beyond my skillset or not. I could try that. I just don't see how others were able to edit the dll file after copying the ISO to a new folder.

You only have to delete the original appraiserres.dll and copy the fake one there.
Alternatively, you can copy and replace.

But from what I can understand from your previous post, it seems that you may have a permissions problem using the desktop to do the work. Also, check your drive for free space.

antspants · Oct 17, 2023

Stigg said:
I do it a bit simpler than that.

I just open my ISO with any application that supports opening and editing of ISOs (e.g. PowerISO, UltraISO etc.) and replace the appraiserres.dll with the dummy one and save it. I then mount it to run setup.exe.

I don't do work like that on the system drive. I do it on my backup / data drive.

This is also how I do it.

Use AnyBurn.

Firas · Oct 17, 2023

@Scott

Very Nice Good Job

Stigg · Oct 17, 2023

If Bree is right, you shouldn't need to go to this trouble to upgrade to 23H2 on incompatible hardware.

Let's install Windows 11 on incompatible hardware

I’m sure Rufus still works. But previous to changing the appraiserres.dll file, I made two different installation sticks with Rufus. One multi install from MS site and one with the media creation tool ISO file, set the required settings and started the install. The install failed both times at...

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Let's install Windows 11 on incompatible hardware

Even if this MIGHT give me 23H2, I rather not risk it and wait for the ISO. Everyone else do it at your own risk. It gave me 23H2. I just did my old Asus laptop last night.

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