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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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Hello Ian,
Why would you want to reverse it? If you are wanting to reverse it all because you want to download and install Windows 11, I believe you can just initiate that. Windows 11 is a whole new operating system for you so it will just take over everything that you have ever previously done in the registry.
You also can can go backwards with all the steps you took in the registry and set them back to what they were.
Having done this, csn I now reverse the process by deleting the WindowsUpdate folder from the registry editor?
Ok, I'm inspired. I'll give it a shot this week and see how it goes. :)
You are a brave woman!
Hi, Portland. I used Method 1 as described in this article.
Repair Windows 10 or 11 Using Command Prompt (5 Ways) (ubackup.com)
It took a long time to scan/repair, but it worked. You can also watch people doing it on YouTube, but I like the stills better for following along.
I should say that the idea was prompted when I did a Norton scan and it told me it found 198 broken registry items and wanted me to buy an add-on service to repair them for me. I went on a Google search, figuring there must be something built into the system to do this, and it turned out I was right! And just to be very clear, this was on a computer where I had not messed with any registry edits. Apparently it can happen from anything from malware attempts to old programs removed but leaving stuff behind.
Once that scan was done, I did do Method 2 for good measure. It took even longer but came up clean in the end. I ran Method 1 on my Surface Pro and it took a fraction of the time it had on my old desktop and came up clean, no registry errors. Which is nice, given that I had done the big, scary registry edit to block Windows 11.
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?
