How to Cancel Windows 11 update?

Very well explained.

I'm interested in the scanning for registry errors on another older laptop I have and still use. Where exactly do I find this in the windows program? Some tool that is there already installed by windows on the laptop?

Hi, Martin-Smith. I agree with what Portland has told you about setting a target in your registry for Windows 10 21H2 so that you just don't have to worry about 11 being foisted on you.

As to how I went about getting 12H2 on my old, slow desktop, what you suggest would not have worked any better, as it was not a shortage of disk space or slow internet holding me back. It was just slow internal processing on the computer (which I subsequently learned was due to a ton of registry errors that had accumulated over the 10 yrs or more that I have had that computer). I kept trying to download and install the update, and it kept stalling out. That made the software download folder full of aborted attempts that seemed to be acting like stoppers. They would have done that no matter whether I was downloading from the internet, a CD, memory stick or whatever. Once I cleared that folder out, the update showed up in the easiest, most "organic" way -- from the updates page in my settings. And now that I have used the scan and fix registry errors tool in Windows, it is running as well as it ever did. Life is so much nicer when one's computers are all working right!

Congratulations! Now you can relax until Oct 14, 2025 and just take the normal updates.

Hello Lynn,

I changed the registry to target Windows 10 version 21H2 yesterday. First thing this morning (Friday), I turned on the computer and there was the update for it.

I just installed. Lightening fast. Everything appears to be working, but I'll know in the next few days if all is good.

For right now, I'm on the latest version like you. Together we conquered Windows 11.

LOL. I FEEL like one lucky woman! Since my last message, I checked for updates yet again on my old desktop (which I had also done the registry edit for, to get 21h2) and lo and behold, there it was starting to download Windows 10 21h2 -- even though an hr before it had told me I was up to date. All went like clockwork, hopping directly from 20H2 to 21h2. So now both of my computers are set.

On the Surface Pro, there is just the note in the right margin telling me "This PC can run Windows 11, Great news—your PC meets the minimum system requirements for Windows 11. Specific timing for when it will be offered can vary as we get it ready for you." and a link where I can "learn more about Windows 11" -- same as it has been ever since I did the registry edit about a month ago. But nothing intrusive, nothing asking me to do anything about Windows 11. So at some point in the future I may have to choose "stay with Windows 10" vs. take Windows 11. Having made the wrong choice the last time (because I was given the choice and did not realize what a big, unwanted change Windows 11 was) I will know this time to decline if it is offered. But my understanding is that the 21h2 version of 10 was offered specifically as an alternative to Windows 11 for those who didn't want it or whose computers could not run it. And I think that now that Windows 10 21h2 is my target version and is what I have, I would have to actively override that to get Windows 11.

On the old desktop, that same right margin area informs me that my computer cannot run Windows 11. So I know it will not ever come up there as an option.

Hope this helps.