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Copper Contributor

Sep 05, 2023

I am stuck on Canary build 25393.1. Please help! It will expire in a few days :(

Hi, My computer will not upgrade after this build for the last 3 canary builds. After the update installs and the machine does its first reboot, it gets stuck at the Windows boot logo. Manually r...

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Sep 14, 2023

Aaron_R

I understand, but this is a common problem and there is really no official information that I know.

This is one of the discussions please see this and let me know, what do you think?

Re: Problem in windows 11 insider preview - Microsoft Community Hub

Yesterday the latest ISO was released - you can download and update in place.

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/09/13/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-25951-canary-channel/

Aaron_R

Copper Contributor

Sep 14, 2023

Thanks A1. You can see the big jump from my build 25393 to the next build of 25905. From this build onwards, I have not been able to upgrade on any revision since. This popcnt requirement was introduced on build 25905 and onwards. If I can find out which new feature they have added that requires this, then I can remove it / disable it from the image so I can successfully upgrade. Otherwise, I am stuck with an expired OS which I have been upgrading from since WIndows XP x64 image.

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Aaron_R
I don't know the answer to this question, but updating using ISO - or did it cause an Error?
- Aaron_R
  Copper Contributor
  Sep 14, 2023
  The only way I can update the Windows 11 image to remove the problem is by knowing which feature uses popcnt in Windows 11? Otherwise, I am stuck. For example, bitlocker requires TPM. I can disable the use of bitlocker. If I knew what uses popcnt, then I could disable that so Windows 11 does not try to invoke it when booting after an upgrade...
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    Sep 14, 2023
    Aaron_R
    https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/03/08/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-25314/
    LSA - but I'm just guessing 🙂
    This is an excerpt from this Blog:
    "
    Introducing LSA Protection Enablement on Upgrade
    Local Security Authority (LSA) protection helps protect against theft of secrets and credentials used for logon by preventing unauthorized code from running in the LSA process and by preventing dumping of process memory. Starting with on upgrade, we will audit for a period of time to check for incompatibilities with LSA protection. If we do not detect any incompatibilities, we will automatically turn on LSA Protection. You can check and change the enablement state of LSA protection in the Windows Security application under the Device Security > Core Isolation page.
    "