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
    2022-01-27T14:22:06+00:00

    If you 'check for updates' can you see any of your pending installations or downloads?

    I do not have any 'check for updates', only resume updates, history and advance options (which does not have any check)...

    where is yours ?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-27T14:09:29+00:00

    I paused my again for another 35 days yesterday so I good until March 1st. I'll do it again one day before. This time when I 'checked for updates' which you have to do in order to pause it again, I would see Windows 11 pending downloading and installing and two security updates from Microsoft.

    If you 'check for updates' can you see any of your pending installations or downloads?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-27T09:17:36+00:00

    Last news, as promised. As I said I changed the group settings. The update was supposed to be tomorrow. This morning I woke up with the idea to delete the files in windows/softwareDistribution/download. I did it and rebooted. Checked the settings and one extra day was available to the update. I set it. Than I checked again and one more day was available, and so on, slowly more and more days were added (not one by one, 4, 5, month, a lot). So now I set the 16 May. I wish I could know if now is still pending win11 or 21H2 as it should

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-25T21:33:12+00:00

    I even did restrictions on the power shell to try and thwart 11 and just push Updates for 10. I must have missed something for that all my privacy setting are changed and slowly going back in to take back my CPU space one permission at a time with the goal of only having 20% CPU space used before opening applications.

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