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
    2023-01-02T14:34:38+00:00

    Hello Microsoft - any body there? Been 8 months now since this thread started - so far no response at all, what about people that have sent you reports via feedback hub, appears you don't read USERS threads & comments - usual abysmal service from MS

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-02T12:08:09+00:00

    Ugh... so I updated, and while it did improve stability, the error came back. I want to disable that as a workaround, but one of my games called PHANTASY STAR ONLINE 2 requires the service to be active, or it will not let me sign in, so I am forced to activate it for now. Hopefully it won't give me many errors..

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-01-02T10:22:20+00:00

    Is it just me - but it appears quite a few postings follow the week-end. The trouble a lot of people had a year or two ago with WaasMedic was when it ran every Sunday morning at start-up, is this also more noticeable over the weekend, possibly running Sunday?

    I don't know. Could be.

    I hibernated my laptop. So far it started up and is running fine now. I think disabling the work folder service in services.msc might have probably fixed it. That or disabling and then manually enabling the Authetication service (the one that is causing issues). Probably either option since I did both of them. I am going to update to 22H2 and see if that will get rid of the problem, I've had a few suggest to me that since it provides stability.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-01-02T06:58:27+00:00

    Is it just me - but it appears quite a few postings follow the week-end. The trouble a lot of people had a year or two ago with WaasMedic was when it ran every Sunday morning at start-up, is this also more noticeable over the weekend, possibly running Sunday?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-01-01T22:53:45+00:00

    I think my laptop may have crashed trying to recover from hibernation yesterday. I saw the autopilot error then my laptop mysteriously restarted itself. No idea if it's a BSoD. I will hibernate now and see if it happens again after leaving it overnight. Otherwise, I may disable that service.

    I think one of the patches gave me such an error. I have not upgraded to 22H2. Should I do that?

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