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Sorry for digging an old thread, but I couldn't help but post here to thank you for the solution. Like OP, I was also facing error 6824 on build 26100.2161, and an offline cleanup in Windows Recovery Environment worked. The only additional step required was changing Windows drive letter from C: to D: and scratch directory from D: to E:, as volume letters are changed in an offline Command Prompt window, such as within WRE or Windows Setup from installation media.'Offline' refers to the OS you are using DISM to clean up. You don't want it running, you need to boot to a Command Prompt from something else. That could be a Windows install usb, of in this example below I used a Macrium Reflect recovery drive. You just need the OS you are cleaning up to be offline, as in you've booted from something else.
You need to boot from something else so that your Windows isn't running while you run Dism offline. If you are booting from a Windows install usb, then first create a folder on your C: drive that DISM can use for a scratch directory, eg. C:\Temp. Then boot to the Advanced Startup recovery environment and open a command prompt.
Typically the command you use will be something like:
DISM /Image:C:\ /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup /ScratchDir:C:\Temp
(note that your Windows drive may not be the C: drive if you have just booted from an install usb)
Before Windows partition had 13.6GB free, but after the cleanup, I have 16.8GB free now. And like you said in another thread, in the next logon, a message saying that updates were being installed was shown, which confirmed the existence of an incomplete transaction stuck in the pipeline after installing this CU.
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