Try uninstalling the update and then pause updates.

If that doesn't work, you could download and ISO and reinstall Windows, making sure to keep Apps and Files.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

I'm not sure if that would reset your option for preview updates or not.

pelaird

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Try uninstalling the update and then pause updates.

That fixed it many thanks.

I spoke to soon.  It said it was removing the problem update.  It ran and rebooted.  However, the third and last message was "Oops something went wrong Don't worry Leave your computer on.  Problems remain.  My Steam games won't run at all.  They start but cannot login so no go there since the ones I play are multi-user.

I am going to give-up for now.  They will eventually patch it.  I have had one BSOD for memory management.

Sorry about that. Nothing is more frustrating. I hope you are able to get it fixed. 

BDBF take a peek here:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/any-one-having-issues-after-trying-to-do-this/cce070c9-1d92-4c47-9ba2-6b33173ba4a3

I also suggest looking at the post I made on obtaining your bitlocker code to do a recovery without "left overs" here: https://forums.stardock.com/529930/page/1/#3940495

I have looked at everything.  The support person recommends a show/hide troubleshooter.  I downloaded it and ran it and all it did was say it found no problems.  I posted a question of my own and will look for other options.  More than likely it is going to be 2 weeks of a broken computer thank you very much MS.        .

I can certainly understand your frustration, BDBF.

One really really really good reason to stay with Windows 7 is Microsoft doesn't go near it anymore.

Microsoft doesn't mess with it.....even if you wanted them to.

Utter peace and quiet.

It can be made safe to be online etc...and it's already safe from MS.

My current Uptime is 142,01,54,40.  That's getting on to half a year.  In fact...it would have been shutdown in March when I was away at the GrandPrix ...then a bit after that when we went on a 9 day road trip..... 142 days ago...

I ran into this issue myself. Apparently if you install 24h2 on a windows 11 pro device it will now automatically turn on bitlocker by default. You have to go in and turn it off manually if you don't want to use it.

It could end up locking any drive for various reasons. For example, if steam games are all on a secondary drive and it were to lock, the games would not load until the drive was unlocked again.

Which is why I'll be using 0Patch for W10...which I enjoy a good deal.

Exactly, PhoenixRising1 . This was the reason I suggested (in reply #6) checking my post on how to obtain one's bitlocker code...in this case to enable a full recovery.

pelaird

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Try uninstalling the update and then pause updates.

Third try was the charm.  That update is finally gone now and I have a stable computer again.  Many thanks everyone.

Great news!  

This is good news!

There's nothing more frustrating than OS issues.

I keep a cloned SSD of my system, files, and apps. If anything catastrophic happens, I can always switch out the drives. I've had way too many situations like yours. 

Would making and keeping current restore points help with this?

Not really because they're stored on the internal disk/s. A restore point is good, but subject to software/hardware problems affecting your OS, etc.

Pelaird and I both store current disk images (clones) on external disks.

Amazon is having a Prime sale on 10.8 and 10.9. You may be able to snag a deal on a fast SSD to use as an external drive.  

Actually, I have disk image backups on an external drive that I add to once a week, but I also keep an SSD with a working OS, my files, and my apps on it. If I run into a catastrophic failure, all I have to do is remove the faulty drive and replace it with this drive. This has saved me from heartache many times.

Smart arrangement . Jafo has 24⁰ backups running and double downs with backups in a safe as well. I use Acronis with a 2TB Samsung SSD for my W11 and the same for my W10 laptop.

Redundancy backups...aka backups of backups.  The prime issue is your OS drive as that's the 'system' whose integrity needs to be 'kept'.  That can be an incremental image [Acronis] done every night with a full backup every week and all saved to a separate internal drive [obviously] and once a week or so the image is copied to an external drive.

You keep an eye on both locations and delete older ones manually.

Next trick is to do software database backups as well.... eg Graphics folders ...Documents.... Emails...etc  You do them via Syncback every 24 hours... and they're differential backups adding/replacing what's new/changed.

Syncback can also be set to do redundancy backups of its backups as well... so eg in my case at any one time I'll have 3 PSDs of Outlook available, not counting what's also in the Image files...

Puzzled. Acronis isn't enough for both system and data backup?