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
    2022-01-22T16:21:45+00:00

    I have the Windows Version 20H1 also. I've never upgraded to the newer version. My Windows 11 is downloaded waiting for install. I never told my computer to do it. I'm in the pausing stage. Once again, I've read all these solutions and in all honesty I think these are the choices:

    1. Continue pausing for 35 days at a time
    2. Stop the update service in its entirety

    Version 20H1 will not be supported by Microsoft after May 1st of this year. No more updates are coming. So, I would suggest on just planning to install Windows 11 when you are ready.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-22T17:08:00+00:00

    If it is brand new you have free support from Dell, than I suggest you to ask this question to their support and to report your reply here. This should be very useful also for us

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-23T10:15:36+00:00

    Should be 20H1. Now a question, I remember one month ago it said to update to 11. But now where can I find it? Is it possible that it has switched to a later version of win10? This would be like wonderful, but unlikely I believe

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    If you can't find where it says it will update to Windows 11, then it seems the Registry hack has worked, hasn't it?

    The only update ahead should be Windows 10 version 21h2 - since that's what you entered in the registry.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-23T10:17:23+00:00

    I have the Windows Version 20H1 also. I've never upgraded to the newer version. My Windows 11 is downloaded waiting for install. I never told my computer to do it. I'm in the pausing stage. Once again, I've read all these solutions and in all honesty I think these are the choices:

    1. Continue pausing for 35 days at a time
    2. Stop the update service in its entirety

    Version 20H1 will not be supported by Microsoft after May 1st of this year. No more updates are coming. So, I would suggest on just planning to install Windows 11 when you are ready.

    As per my posts, I don't think those are your only choices. If you do the registry hack, and stop wuauserv and bits temporarily while you delete the Windows 11 download catalog, then reboot, you should be fine.

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