Many persistent errors in Event Viewer after Windows 11 build 22598.ni_release.220408-1503: "Autopilot.dll wil error was reported"

Anonymous
2022-04-28T20:22:08+00:00

I used to be part of the the Windows 11 Insider Beta channel. After updating to build 22598.ni_release.220408-1503 I began to see the same error in Event Viewer extremely frequently:

The errors are all the same and read as follows:

Autopilot.dll WIL error was reported.

HRESULT: 0x80070491

File: onecoreuap\admin\moderndeployment\autopilot\dll\dllmain.cpp, line 128

Message: NULL

I have never used any program called Autopilot or Modern Deployment. After seeing this problem I immediately left the insider program and am now queued for enrollment. However no new Windows update has happened and these errors persist. How do I prevent these errors?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-02T21:08:18+00:00

    I'd never had this issue before after W10 to W11, updates over updates, an in-place W11 upgrade from ISO and using the installation assistant to get 23H2 - effectively another in-place upgrade.

    But last week I was forced to re-install because after a system restore it became unbootable with Critical Process Died BSOD.

    I chose to install from USB keeping the partition which created a Windows.old folder but otherwise its was a clean install - except some settings and installed apps are recovered from the cloud during the install.

    Since then Ive been getting huge numbers of these events - around 200 a day

    There are multiple feedbacks in the Hub and posts going back years and still no resolution or comment.

    Just like the Metadata staging issue and others frequently reported - these days the focus seems to be on adding unwanted features instead of testing and actioning feedback.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-09-16T00:20:48+00:00

    Although I'm running Windows 10 I am getting the same Autopilot error (line 185). Tried TPM reset, turning off TPM, ISO repair and sfc /scan stuff but still getting 100s of Autopilot errors piling in EventViewer. Which sometimes causes stutters and also makes looking for other errors in EventViewer harder. Been getting them since I downgraded from Windows 11 in March.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-07-30T00:28:24+00:00

    Is this error related to vpn? I noticed it often pop up when windows trying connect to vpn😅

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-07-27T17:23:31+00:00

    Is there any reason why the path/folder you've identified above doesn't exist on a Windows 11 PC Build 22000.832?

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-07-25T06:09:09+00:00

    but the "error" happens so often.... Also repeatedly. I still don't think it is what's causing you to crash.

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