How to Cancel Windows 11 update?

Anonymous
2021-12-16T19:58:35+00:00

I'm one of the people who had Windows 11 download itself without me telling it to do so. Now, it is ready for install. I do not want to install Windows 11 at this point. I want to keep my Windows 10.

I've paused it for 7 days, but this is a temporary solution. Can I delete the Windows 11 download somehow? I'm running Windows 10 on a brand new Dell computer.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-21T20:28:33+00:00

    That's a good question, Mel, one I hadn't thought of. My guess is that we will need to go in and either delete all target version information, leaving those places blank (as I think they were before the protective registry edits were done), or re-set the target version to say Windows 11. If a specific edition is put in at that point, my guess is that it would need to be changed every time a new version of 11 came out, so my first attempt would be to just say "Windows 11" and not do the part where we currently have 22H2.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-15T19:59:37+00:00

    Do it for me

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-09T18:28:15+00:00

    stop windows 11 download

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-20T16:46:31+00:00

    I think you first posted in this thread on April 4, 2022.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-20T15:56:10+00:00

    I don't need help with this but I can't find where I posted my question.

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