How to Cancel Windows 11 update?

Thank you, JoJun, for replying. My screen looks just like yours, but with the extra things above. For some reason my computer will not do a screen shot when I am in the registry, but here are the entries from a Print to PDF save:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Security

Class Name: <NO CLASS>

Last Write Time: 3/8/2022 - 3:44 PM

Value 0

Name: OutlookSecureTempFolder

Type: REG_SZ

Data: C:\Users\Lynn'sSurfacePro\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows \INetCache\Content.Outlook\E2JVQ1K6\

Value 1

Name: InitEncrypt

Type: REG_DWORD

Data: 0x2

Value 2

Name: InitSign

Type: REG_DWORD

Data: 0x2

Value 3

Name: TargetReleaseVersion

Type: REG_DWORD

Data: 0x1

Value 4

Name: ProductVersion

Type: REG_SZ

Data: Windows 10 Value 5 Name: TargetReleaseVersionInfo Type: REG_SZ Data: 21H1

So my guess is that the items parked in Values 1 and 2 (already there before I did anything) are overriding what I have added with the instructions here and elsewhere and which show up as Value 3 and 4. The little icon with the blue letters that precedes TargetReleaseVersion is also there in front of those entries for Values 1 and 2.

Your suggestion of setting for 21H2 seems worth trying, though, so I think I will do that. Thank you again.

Matt-NYC, First, I totally agree with you and others who are angry with Microsoft for putting us through this. I have now spent days in a black hole obsession with trying to correct this. Second, I did do the registry changes because the instructions in this thread and on numerous places on the web said exactly the same thing and the YouTube tutorials provided such a clear, step-by-step demo. Every step I did matched not only what I read, but what I saw. Fortunately, my computer is working just fine, so no harm was done. But the forced download of Windows 11 has not been blocked by this step. In my interaction with JoJun there are more details.

But the forced download of Windows 11 has not been blocked by this step

Two things (if you did the registry correctly) that came to my mind that are worth trying.

In the search,

type cmd, right-click it and choose run as administrator.

Execute the command:

gpupdate /force

Close the Window, pause the update and resume again.

Hi LynnChristy.

Sorry, but your registry path is nothing near what I posted.

I posted 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate', as circled in red in the screenshot.

You posted 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Security'

It looks like you're editing the wrong registry path.

JoJun, Thank you. But actually I did use the registry path you posted (used a cut-and-paste from this thread) and that IS the registry path that shows up when I check it. But the minute I try to do a screen print (which won't work) or go to print to PDF, it changes to what you see. But truly, when I open the page using the correct path you give here and that has been given elsewhere in this thread and at various other places online, that top line changes. Part of the mystery, maybe??