Windows 11 24H2 "regressions"

eLPuSHeR · Oct 11, 2024

Hello.

This is a list of small glitches/regressions I have found so far after updating Windows 11 to 24H2 (from 23H2)...

1. There is a webview2 issue if you run sfc /scannow. It gets repaired but it is coming back after each reboot. Updating MS Edge didn't make any difference.
2. If you change a driver requiring a reboot under device manager, you will get the notification popup twice. If you click on the first one, you won't be able to close the properties sheet.
3. Select all was CTRL-A under 23H2. Now it's CTRL-E (as with older Windows versions).

Please feel free to expand this list with your findings.

Ghot · Oct 11, 2024

SFC is already fixed in the Release Preview (Insider channel), so we should see the fix in November?

Disk Cleanup is also broken in 24H2. There's 8.63GB of junk that it can't remove. But the 8.63GB isn't really there.

antspants · Oct 11, 2024

eLPuSHeR said:
3. Select all was CTRL-A under 23H2. Now it's CTRL-E (as with older Windows versions).

Not sure why you're getting that. Works as normal for me.
I can't imagine them changing it, it's universal.

CTRL + E opens the Search Quick Access pulldown menu in Window Explorer or places Focus on the top right search bar. As always.

Maybe because I have frozen updates and I am on 26100.1742

EDIT. I dont recall select all ever being Ctrl + E. I must live a deprived life.

wiganken · Oct 11, 2024

Ghot said:
Disk Cleanup is also broken in 24H2. There's 8.63GB of junk that it can't remove. But the 8.63GB isn't really there.

Seems like it is a new feature of 24H2. Not a bug. See: -

Windows 11 24H2: Cleanup is no longer deleting all temporary files - gHacks Tech News

Disk Cleanup in Windows 11 version 24H2 is not deleting all Windows update files anymore. Here is why.

www.ghacks.net

OAT · Oct 11, 2024

eLPuSHeR said:
Please feel free to expand this list with your findings.

Thank you but...
I am unsure what you expect anyone to do here.
You don't even mention what branch you are on.
In any case, you should kindly report bug(s) in the Feedback Hub.

Send feedback to Microsoft with the Feedback Hub app - Microsoft Support

Learn how to use Feedback Hub to report problems or send suggestions to Microsoft.

support.microsoft.com

OAT · Oct 11, 2024

wiganken said:
Seems like it is a new feature of 24H2. Not a bug. See: -

Windows 11 24H2: Cleanup is no longer deleting all temporary files - gHacks Tech News

Disk Cleanup in Windows 11 version 24H2 is not deleting all Windows update files anymore. Here is why.

www.ghacks.net

Yes, I mentioned that a while back.
This is so that future updates are CU instead of a complete deploy.

Ghot · Oct 11, 2024

wiganken said:
Seems like it is a new feature of 24H2. Not a bug. See: -

Windows 11 24H2: Cleanup is no longer deleting all temporary files - gHacks Tech News

Disk Cleanup in Windows 11 version 24H2 is not deleting all Windows update files anymore. Here is why.

www.ghacks.net

Sounds like MS marketing BS to me.

I always check my right click properties sheet on my C:\ drive before I do an update(s), and then again after I run CCleaner and Disk Cleanup... before making a fresh backup. (OCD don't ya know).

Anyway... before 24H2, C:\ was consistently about 35.4 to 36.8GB.
After 24H2... it was down to 34.2GB.
And my Windows 11 is pretty much stripped down.

gHacks is great... I check them every day. But sometimes... I think they believe MS's marketing a bit too much.
Thank gawd I... (who doesn't believe anything MS says), am around to catch these rare occurrences.

Ofc course... there's no way to "know for sure" until we see a "consensus" from a whole pile of tech sites.

OAT · Oct 11, 2024

Ghot said:
Sounds like MS marketing BS to me.

I always check my right click properties sheet on my C:\ drive before I do an update(s), and then again after I run CCleaner and Disk Cleanup... before making a fresh backup. (OCD don't ya know).

Anyway... before 24H2, C:\ was consistently about 35.4 to 36.8GB.
After 24H2... it was down to 34.2GB.
And my Windows 11 is pretty much stripped down.

gHacks is great... I check them every day. But sometimes... I think they believe MS's marketing a bit too much.
Thank gawd I... (who doesn't believe anything MS says), am around to catch these rare occurrences.

Ofc course... there's no way to "know for sure" until we see a "consensus" from a whole pile of tech sites.

You really think so? I don't think it is.
I have 'updated' the current Dev version to the Canary one and the cleanup wiped out everything.
The difference between the two branches is that Dev has been offering CUs up until the last release.
Now why would one branch 'correctly' remove leftovers whilst the other wouldn't if this was a bug?

Ghot · Oct 11, 2024

OAT said:
You really think so? I don't think it is.
I have 'updated' the current Dev version to the Canary one and the cleanup wiped out everything.
The difference between the two branches is that Dev has been offering CUs up until the last release.
Now why would one branch 'correctly' remove leftovers whilst the other wouldn't if this was a bug?

I dunno.

For example... I never thought that "Storage Sense" itself, was something that anyone needed.
Seemed more like just adding more chrome to a car, that was still just so-so underneath.

Granted, it could just be disillusionment on my part.
But I won't be betting the food or rent money on it's veracity, any time soon.

There were quite a few things in Win 11 in general, that my intuition (and nothing else), said: "Yeah.... right", about...
so I just turned them off.

But I'm gettin' old.
It may be time to retire to the rocking chair on the front porch... if I had either. LOL

hdmi · Oct 12, 2024

Ghot said:
But sometimes... I think they believe MS's marketing a bit too much.

Who? Brink? Take a good look at his avatar. Then tell me that you don't want to believe. lmao

cereberus · Oct 12, 2024

Ghot said:
Sounds like MS marketing BS to me.

I always check my right click properties sheet on my C:\ drive before I do an update(s), and then again after I run CCleaner and Disk Cleanup... before making a fresh backup. (OCD don't ya know).

Anyway... before 24H2, C:\ was consistently about 35.4 to 36.8GB.
After 24H2... it was down to 34.2GB.
And my Windows 11 is pretty much stripped down.

gHacks is great... I check them every day. But sometimes... I think they believe MS's marketing a bit too much.
Thank gawd I... (who doesn't believe anything MS says), am around to catch these rare occurrences.

Ofc course... there's no way to "know for sure" until we see a "consensus" from a whole pile of tech sites.

I'm with you on this - there is a bug and they are bull crapping to pretend it is not.

I see no sign of the 8GB bug. It affects some and not others.

As for sites like Brinkmanns - they used to be really good but now regurgitate MS garbage as clickbait.

hdmi · Oct 12, 2024

In addition to providing the fix, Microsoft announced that sfc /scannow detects WebView2 file corruptions even when these files are not actually corrupt. Microsoft admits Windows 11 24H2 issue with file checker, fix in November
Use the PnPUtil.exe utility instead.
I don't have this problem.

johnp · Oct 12, 2024

I have this bug in two Windows 11 24H2 installations, one on the PC and the second in a VirtualBox virtual machine.

I have run Disk Cleanup, but the issue remains.

TM21 · Oct 13, 2024

Duh! I don't have any bugs or problems in Windows 11/Pro/64, 24H2 at all. And I've installed it at least a half a dozen times, so far.
OH, I almost forgot, I don't get my Windows ISO's from MS. Maybe that's why they just WORK, and FAST too.!!!

OAT · Oct 15, 2024

Ghot said:
I dunno.

@cereberus , @Ghot , you were right. I was wrong.
MS has confirmed the bug.

Brink · Oct 15, 2024

Disk Cleanup might incorrectly report space available for cleanup
Despite cleaning up files, the application might display an incorrect estimate of space still available for cleanup

Known and Resolved issues for Windows 11 version 24H2

Windows message center: Current status as of January 21, 2025 Windows 11, version 24H2, also known as the Windows 11 2024 Update, is now broadly available. Starting this week, we are expanding this latest Windows version’s phased rollout. We are gradually offering this update also to...

www.elevenforum.com

KevTech · Oct 15, 2024

eLPuSHeR said:
Select all was CTRL-A under 23H2. Now it's CTRL-E

CTRL-A still selects all for me in 24H2.

jimbo45 · Oct 15, 2024

Running HYPER-V with a Linux VM on latest release of 24H2 - can no longer ping HOST machine or access any files on it even with Bridged (external switch) networking so both on same subnet. Host machine can Ping Guest and share / transfer files to / from the Guest. Nothing at all changed on the Linux Guest.

As a test I booted up the previous release of 24H2 and no problems -- so some regression / networking thing has changed. Note Host is the "standard" not Insider preview version.

Cheers
jimbo

LastSilmaril · Oct 16, 2024

One thing I've found, as a StartIsBack user, is that whatever hack was being used so that clicking the Power/Battery icon in the system tray to open/select a power mode like in Windows 10 no longer works. Instead, clicking it brings up Quick Settings, which does nothing for me.

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