Windows 10: Windows 11, 23H2 failed to install 0xc190011. Tried twice but no success. My computer is...

Can anyone assist?

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Windows 11 23H2 installation fails

I had the same problem (invalid user profiles) again when upgrading my wife's computer to Windows 11. With a little help from the community, I was able to delete these profiles by editing the Windows registry directly rather than using del_unwanted_profiles.reg. Here's a link to the thread that describes the process.

In brief, run the following command in an administrator command prompt: wmic useraccount get name, SID.

This will generate a list of the actual valid profiles that exist on the computer. Copy and paste the output to a text file so that you can refer to it.

Open the registry editor and navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. Expand the profile list. Keep only the profiles identified in the output of the wmic command and delete any others.

 

Cannot install Windows 11 23H2

The build number 22631.2506 implies the device has been upgraded to 23H2 already.

Here are the version/build numbers for Windows 11.

• 22000.xxx is 21H2
  
• 22621.xxx is 22H2
  
• 22631.xxx is 23H2
  

Your system is fully up-to-date. What else you're looking for?

//I'm going to just assume 23H2 doesn't actually exist yet and count it as vaporware.//

No, it's not.

Read more about the enablement package you installed.

KB5027397: Feature update to Windows 11, version 23H2 by using an enablement package

 

Windows Cumulative Updates failing to install

I'm having a large number of failures installing the December and now the January Cumulative updates for Widows 11 22H2 and 23H2. The specific updates are:
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MS23-DEC: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 - Windows 11 Version 22H2 - KB5033375 (x64)

MS23-DEC: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 - Windows 11 Version 23H2 - KB5033375 (x64)

and

MS24-JAN: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 - Windows 11 Version 23H2 - KB5034123 (x64)

MS24-JAN: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 - Windows 11 Version 22H2 - KB5034123 (x64)
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I have followed the instructions detailed by David-M in this post: Windows Update failing to install - Microsoft Community and others with similiar steps, none of the steps have succeeded. I have tried using Windows Update locally, pushing the updates from our asset management software and even downloaded the specific CU locally, and running the installer/update. Regardless of the method, the install universally fails with: "Install error - 0x800f081f"

On the 22H2 systems I have also tried upgrading to 23H2 and generally speaking those fail as well. Does anyone have a similar experience and found a way through this?