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

This only began for me a few weeks ago when I upgraded to Win11. I'd been running Win10 22H2 since July (KB5015878) but I'd had a change to read about changes in Win11 22H2 and thought I would give it a go. **** I was disappointed with several things which is content for another post elsewhere. So I decided to roll back to Win10 22H2 and have been having this come up frequently ever since. I've already reported it but thought I would share here as well in case and maybe hash through some ideas for those interested in really trying to sort it out.

I really don't care to see more people writing nonsense like "They just need to fix it" because it just isn't that simple. To illustrate that point, and for a sanity check, my girlfriend has a 2 yr old HP beast and it's not on her machine either. She keeps telling me that the problem with my machine is ME. She's right in a way. My sister and her boyfriend....not there either. My daughter? No. My son? AHA..... There it is. He has a 10th gen Acer Nitro 7.

So it's not a simple problem.

What I've done is dug out my old Fujitsu T938 (Intel Core i7 8th gen) and did a clean install of Win10 Pro and well, the problem didn't present there either. So I'm gonna say this. Depending on your usage and how far from factory you are, a factory reset may solve the problem.

On the Fujitsu my plan was to install things and check for the error and eventually I should run into it. Simple, right? lol

Well, I had a thought a little while ago and if it's right, I'm not going to run into the problem. So rather than test on that machine, I'm going to test on this one. I've seen all the websites coming up pointing out that disabling certain things "fixes" the problem, but I think that's consequential and if I'm right, many people are barking up the wrong tree.

Stepping back to my peculiar run-in with this, as I said, I didn't have this error until I installed Win11. I don't know exactly when however. I had a number of things go wrong, mostly playing with manual registry edits while multitasking and not backing up the registry... I know... I should know better... I started having problems that were flaky. I thought they had to do with some custom tools installed that were supposed to make 11 work a little more like 10. (I want my double-stack taskbar with quicklaunch and if they don't put it back, I'm gonna hold out for Win12). I thought these things were the problem so I removed them, then downgraded back to Win10 but still had a few bizarre problems. I went to the event log and found this and a few other issues. I corrected the rest but this one remains. Meanwhile I have weird things that happen like a random occasional error on the SSD, USB ports that drop and reconnect, the screen face recognition going momentarily blind I guess and locking the screen 10-15 seconds after I stop typing....once every 4-6 hours. It's weird, intermittent, and flaky.

Dllmain.cpp is an entry point. It's shared among a number of programs. Used by Open Shell Menu Manager, Process Explorer, heck, UltraSearch turns up 11 copies. Most are 0 bytes but a couple are .1MB. So not only is the file being called during the error an issue but where it calls it from.

As I sat and pondered what's different between the machines, one thing dawned on me. To support various pieces of software that I use, I have a boatload of .Net distributables installed which on upgrade to Win11 were causing problems.

So i suspect that these libraries being installed in win10 was making my system work properly. I have a batch script that I wrote a long time ago that installs and sets up a lot of stuff on new machines and saves me time. But with dotnet included my other laptop seems to be just fine. My son does a lot of gaming and has several installed as well. He upgraded to 11 and has the same issue. My daughter, girlfriend, and parents though do NOT have dotnet installed and have no trouble.

That sounds confusing. Basically, I'm wondering if certain dotnet libraries are getting corrupted and this is the source of the problem. Mine would have corrupted during upgrade or downgrade. My son - about the same.

So I'm gonna slowly go through and re-install a lot of software today and tomorrow. If something fixes it I'll pass it on. Meanwhile it would be interesting to know what other software and addins are common if anyone cares to share. ....I may make a public spreadsheet tonight for that if others would be interested in such a comparison.

Windows 11 22H2 and always the same ugly autopilot.dll error.

I'm really sick of this error. It keeps making my games gag when it occurs, and sometimes even crashes them. As soon as I get a crash I open the windows event tool and see that the error ocurred exactly at the same time.

It's been a while now and patches haven't fixed this issue.

Also, this bs is completely random. I reinstalled windows and it popped up on a fresh windows install while in an old install I had, this error didn't exist at all, and now I'm suddenly plagued by it causing all sort of anomalies in my system.

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Autopilot.dll wil error was reported.

HRESULT: 0x80070491

File: onecoreuap\admin\moderndeployment\autopilot\dll\dllmain.cpp, line 138

Message: NULL

I made an account just for the people suffering from this error in regards to it crashing your pc when you go to play games. This use to happen to me, my screen would go black when starting a game or after playing for a few minutes. I would still be able to hear the sound of the game for a few seconds after the screen went black. I also had this same error in my event viewer every time. I could of sworn this was the issue causing my games to crash. Long story short, I changed out my PSU and I still have this error in my event viewer, but no games crash anymore. I hope this is helpful for some. I have a 5600x, 3070ti, 16GB DDR4 Ram, Asus Tuf x570 gaming Plus wifi. Previous power supply was 650w and my new one ( very overkill I know) 1000w.

MS don't care about us as long as they can harvest our personal files.

Microsoft, what is wrong with you??? CEO Satya Nadella you do not care!!!