Metadata staging failed, result=0x80070490 for container '{564E4238-4832-4447-5633-5CB9010C3444}', DeviceSetupManager id 131.' If you happen to know what this means, please help me with this error

Same here and started around 1st January 2024 ...thanks for New Years gift Microsoft 🤬 ...ruining both my editing work and gaming daily, as it cause the entire system to freeze for a millisecond and also randomly crashes (no BSOD) the entire system daily too 🤬

As shown, typical (latest official release) Windows 11 on (an ageing) HEDT 🖥️

However, my URL is different from what others are sharing here. yet the same issue: http://dmd.metaservices.microsoft.com/dms/metadata.svc

I wonder if someone has a computer that doesn't have this error, and what URL is in their registry???

I did a domain search and sent an email documenting the problem with these urls to the admin of the domain.

Might help if others did this also.

admin@domains.microsoft

.. For now I simply turned off the setting for Device Installation Settings to off. This is the only solution for now or else you'll be pulling your hair for hours and you'll be to no avail!

Wait for MS to fix it, this is not Windows issue.

Wow! Thank you for this. Not only eliminated the Event id 131 errors but al a significant number of other errors with event id 2,161,1000,2008,7031,8193 and 10005.

Meh, I'm not sure why you are thanking me for this. You should've known this solution already!

I'm not happy that the problem still persists last 1 month! It is a scandal! This isn't really a solution. If at any time we buy a new device we won't be able to install device drivers and the devices might not work properly unless we are lucky to find the drivers through official website.

But some devices like gamepad controllers only install via windows update driver and that's not going to work now until Microsoft don't fix it!

Thanks for the detailed response!