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
    2024-01-25T19:14:20+00:00

    Do NOT try to cancel the upgrade. That will leave your computer in an unstable, possibly unbootable state.

    Instead, allow the upgrade to complete. Then immediately go to Start menu > Settings > System > Recovery and 'Go back' to Windows 10.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-08T20:57:18+00:00

    Very helpful

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-24T11:16:03+00:00

    grazie tante

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-05T12:04:57+00:00

    Its successful, thank you

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-24T03:20:00+00:00

    God bless you!

    I did this as well as the registry edit, and I chanagted the registry edit to match my 22H2

    i do NOT want Windows 11

    as others have said I spent thousands of dollars on Adobe photoshop with updates to CS6 and it infuriates me that they're trying force us to their subscriptions now!

    also what happened to the good old days where you could install whatever operating systsem you wanted

    **** like this makes me want to switch to LINUX

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