Don't know about you or your 'revisiting/findings' I just installed 24H2 for the first time today so stated my observation & asked (there's a Q mark if you've missed/overlooked). Also, It also took much more time (approx 15 minutes) to install in my same gen4 NVME compared to 23H2 (less than 5 minutes). Anyone else (clean) installed 24H2, and noticed any significant increase in installation time?
I mean, this release is around for a few months, and now there are ISOs now all findings/questions have to be redone over and over, gets a bit frustrating for those who invested all the time and energy to investigate and publish it when it was first noticed, nothing more.
This new installation process is so messed up. If you're doing a reinstall and you're manually deleting the old windows partitions, you have to wait a few seconds after each deleted partition so that the installer refreshes the whole partition list. After deleting one partition it still lets you select and press delete on other partitions even though it has no effect. And after refreshing, these other partitions are still there, plus it auto selects some partition. The bloody thing refreshed .1 seconds before pressing delete on the recovery partition and it auto selected D: instead. Lost almost 1tb of data.
I am not an early adopter (like you) & as I told (you) already, I just tested/installed the 24H2 today for the first time, so all those 'findings' are new for me, and therefore asked. you could've simply ignored it or just said YES if you wanna answer. and rest assured, I won't be the only one or the last one to ask about these changes here. On another note, -some users reported about Windows.old bug i.e. even after a clean installation, the 'Windows.old' folder is present in the C drive. Can confirm the same from my end. -However, DefaultUser0 folder ain't there in my case, as some others said/reported for the 24H2 build(s).
This won't help you, but FWIW, installation time was roughly the same for me as it was on 23H2, meaning less than 5 minutes. I am using a Samsung SSD 980 PRO (PCIe Gen4 NVMe) and install using a fast USB 3.1 drive. The OOBE process is faster towards the end, as it does the "preparing..." step that used to come after OOBE now while you're still within OOBE. If you have clicked through it, I am sure you've noticed it already.
defaultUser0 gets created when theres an issue with signin options .its used to login(basic functions) to reset your password/[pin ..Also created during oobe setup but gets deleted
Mine is Kingston FURY Renegade 1TB, & I installed it in VM, ISO fed with the 'autounattend.xml' so no OOBE, still took around 15 minutes, I'll test in real H/W soon to compare the installation time again. 15m for Gen4 NVME is absurd.
It's almost certainly some kind of VM quirk. Also note that BitLocker is enabled by default, which has no real impact on normal hardware, but could potentially slow down the VM. Maybe you're accounting for this in your configuration already, I don't know, just a suggestion.
I disabled the BL via reg edit inside the ISO HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BitLocker PreventDeviceEncryption=1 so that's not the issue. Like I said, I'll test more & check. can anyone confirm whether there is OneDrive in the Win11 24H2 ISO or not? Default OneDrive DIR is: C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-onedrive-setup_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.2xxxx.1_none_86d60ce019ce7baf the ISO I downloaded from UUPD, there's no amd64_microsoft-windows-onedrive-setup_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.2xxxx.1_none_86d60ce019ce7baf folder under C:\Windows\WinSxS\
OneDrive is installed and used by default, just how it was before. This is on both a clean 24H2 install on desktop and a in-place 24H2 upgrade on laptop. C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-onedrive-setup_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.26100.1_none_2233e98c8e9ce5f5 This directory exists.
Just want to share a welcome change in file explorer. So in build 22000 and 226x1, some videos encoded in av1 and h265 10-bit will give a blank generic icon as the thumbnail, even though the required codecs are installed. In 24h2 the thumbnails are loaded correctly. Also, you can install and boot 24h2 on ReFS partition using dism /apply-image. If you want to try that, beware that you need to put WinRE in a separate ntfs partition. If the partition is not set, WinRE will be disabled. Because I want to enable WinRE, I then tried to shrink the Windows (ReFS) partition, thinking it would shrink like ntfs, but it's not supported..
24H2 ships the AV1 codec by default (you had to install it manually in 23H2 and prior). I thought the previews in file explorer worked before, but I am not 100% certain. Glad to hear though
Damn, I have to go back to 23H2. Animations and scrolling are still randomly stuttering and it's annoying as hell.
what's the 24H2 build you used? Mine is 26100.1 EDIT/UPDATE: Prepped a 26100.560 & yes, OD DIR existed as you said Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-onedrive-setup_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.26100.1_none_2233e98c8e9ce5f5
I can't confirm this and have already carried out several installations, perhaps they didn't delete the drives correctly. With all the problems you list here, you should consider using an unmodified ISO without using your autounattend.xml