Windows 11 Version 24H2...

Just Got a Notice in my Settings, Windows 11 Version 24H2 is available for Download.. Question , Is it Good to Go ?? Reason I ask is they said same for the New Outlook Mail App and it was still full of Bugs..

Seems to be a mixed bag around here. Personally, it just came up as available on my machine, but i haven't installed it yet.

Seems like lots have reported slow performance of their machines across the board after the install.

There's no cut and dried answer to your question. The upgrade has applied without issues for a lot of people, but has failed for others. If the upgrade encounters a problem during installation, if things work as they are designed to, the system will rollback. However, things can and do go wrong.I strongly recommend you make a full system image before upgrading to protect yourself. It's best to be prepared just in case.

As far as stability, again for most 24h2 runs just fine, but others have experienced issues. The fact that you were offered the upgrade is a good sign MS sees your system as being ready for it but at this poiunt it's still a crapshoot with the odds being better than when it was first released.

Picinok said:

Just Got a Notice in my Settings, Windows 11 Version 24H2 is available for Download.. Question , Is it Good to Go ?? Reason I ask is they said same for the New Outlook Mail App and it was still full of Bugs..

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You may want to read this.
MS-DEFCON 4: 24H2 is a work in progress @ AskWoody]

The OP may want to read this before making a decision.

MS-DEFCON 4: 24H2 is a work in progress @ AskWoody.

Some people seem to have had problems, on my main machine Dell and a Samsung everything is okay, and I’ve had it for a while. As advised by others I wouldn’t go ahead without a reliable image of the system.

rk911 said:

The OP may want to read this before making a decision.

MS-DEFCON 4: 24H2 is a work in progress @ AskWoody.

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One has to be cautious of course, but the article is almost 2 months old. Lots of things might have been corrected by now.

callisto said:

One has to be cautious of course, but the article is almost 2 months old. Lots of things might have been corrected by now.

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I could be wrong but I don't think the recommendation has changed. YMMV.

I had to completely reinstall Windows. I have ASUS hardware which is causing problems for a lot of people. Also, certain games are having issues. I would type in "'game name' 24H2" in Google and see what comes up.

I'd tried 24H2 from 23H2 about 6-7 months ago but there were too many unfinished areas to persist with (mostly little popup windows complaining that such 'n such is changed on 24H2). My felicitations to those who chose to be early martyrs - you've done a great job.

Just retried this weekend (full image backup of the 23H2 installation was done first) using the simple Upgrade without programmes/setting losses technique.. There seems to be none of those earlier issues now. Everything, with one exception, works as it did on the 23H2 installation. I'm using Open Shell and even that said: "Reconfiguring for 24H2" - and it did so in a few seconds, now works fine. The one exception is the loss of a direct network icon to one of two other PC's on my home network, although their mapped drives are there and using manually typed network addresses finds them instantly. The SMB 1.0/CIFS boxes are all turned on, and this configuration worked flawlessly in 23H2.

There is just the usual issues with doing this, despite the statement that all programmes/settings are retained. Fonts are not retained, network settings (especially network access) are defaulted to MS' own safety zone (ie. nobody can do anything unless all the boxes are re-ticked) ... and so on. Happened going from 22H2 to 23H2 as well. Winaero Tweaker helps a bit here.

My question now is: what actual difference and improvements am I meant to see ? So far, I may as well still be on 23H2, with the exception of the direct network icons.

ian50 said:

My question now is: what actual difference and improvements am I meant to see ? So far, I may as well still be on 23H2, with the exception of the direct network icons.

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Well if you believe the hype, thanks to 24H2's servicing stack, a crucial software component that is responsible for installing updates in the operating system, installation is 45.6% faster and restart time is 39.7% faster than we saw with Windows 11 version 22H2 and 23H2.

@FrancoDT

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I should have noted that the 24H2 version I'm on now is 26100.2605. Update says that's the most recent for normal installations.

To respond to your points, the Update inplace process gave me no impression of significant speed increases. I went through quite a few updates from the initial iso I used and none of these were any quicker than those experienced with 23H2. Still, one can live in hope I suppose - and the very next update will be bountiful.

I've not tried a clean install for 24H2 so I can make no comment.

Since I find it hard to trust MS' flip-flops, I'll retain a 23H2 iso for reversion.

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@FrancoDT

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Since I find it hard to trust MS' flip-flops, I'll retain a 23H2 iso for reversion.

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In case you don't know, it'd have to be a clean install.

@bobkn

Yes, thanks. Should have added that I've retained on of my three PC's in the home network on 23H2.

Macrium 8 (paid) has a menu item for restoring an image onto dissimilar hardware, so reverting the 24H2 installation back to 23H2 isn't so difficult to do if needed. I've done similar a few times and it's worked ok. Just have to watch the ID names of the target PC before re-connecting to the network.

Picinok said:

Just Got a Notice in my Settings, Windows 11 Version 24H2 is available for Download.. Question , Is it Good to Go ?? Reason I ask is they said same for the New Outlook Mail App and it was still full of Bugs..

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Removed Windows 10 taskbar, so, bad for me.

Early days yet. I've been using 24H2 for about a week now on one of my home network PC's and after a quite uneventful in-place upgrade from 23H2, I'd asked the question (above in this thread) of what was supposed to be the difference between 23H2 and 24H2 as after the upgrade I couldn't find much. None, in fact.

Well, perhaps this additional comment now is premature as yet. It does seem though that RAM management is noticeably improved - that is, considerably less leakage. Available free RAM is generally about 40% higher than 23H2, even during prolonged runs on the browsers with quite a number of open tabs around, and various open CAD programmes clinging to their oars. I haven't tried a concomitant heavy Robocopy batch file yet, but if this crashes the free RAM back to 23H2 status, I suppose I'd need to withdraw this comment as just another hopeful.

Last comment on this topic from me.

There is no doubt now that 24H2 has significantly better RAM management than 22 and 23H2 versions. Quantifying that: ~40% more free RAM available over a normal day's operations, so programmes load and operate faster. I'm using a RAM monitor, a small footprint icon in the taskbar, as a longstanding measure here.

Two of my three networked pc's are now on 24H2 and both show the same results. The 3rd pc is too old on specs to gain much here, so it's just on a Win11 Lite as a legacy machine. I may consider upgrading that to Win11 Lite 24H2 at some point but that apparently cannot be done as an inplace upgrade.