How to Cancel Windows 11 update?

Hi. Would these directions still apply, even though my version of Windows 10 is 64-bit and 21H1?

Yes, it would.

Hi Sumit,

I run into this thread because I have a similar problem: WIN10 PRO, 20H1 with 11 ready to install and I do not want it (at least for long).

I went to Group policy editor Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Windows Update for Business, enabled the policy and typed 21H1 in the field.

After reboot the situation is still the same, with 11 pending installation, which I delayed till 25 January

Any suggestion? Thanks in advance

Hi there, I believe you would need to update to 21H1 first because 20H1 has already reached the end of service, and the policy does not work on releases that have reached EOL.

All above 20H1 share the same code, so you can just use the enablement package to update to a supported release.

https://www.yourwindowsguide.com/2021/05/windows-10-version-21h1-offline.html#.YdHR-hnhUzY

First of all, you are not alone with this issue. This is a very long thread to read with multiple suggestions. I have found none of them that work. Once Windows 11 has downloaded on your computer, the only way to stop the pending installation is to keep pausing it. You can pause it up to 35 days. Right before that, you have do go ahead and click on 'check for updates'. Then what happens it is tells you to pick a time for the installation. You can then pause it again for another 35 days.

I have Windows 10 home version so I don't have that group policy setting like the Pro version does. There is one setting to double check though. In settings, make sure you click the box that says that you have to be notified before installing an update. That way, Windows 11 won't install unless you let it.

No easy answers then you must either let Windows 11 install and hope for the best or keep pausing the rest of your life. Mine is now paused until Feb. 2nd. I'll pause it one more time after that and then I'm going to just let it install.

Thanks to you and Sumit for the reply.

I am very angry with microshift, I do not have the time to go behind its ****, now win10 is working and I do not want to change to 11 because there is the high risk somw sw will not afterwards. To force the installation of 21h1, I am not sure it will work since now it has 11 ready and no 21... and again I do not want to risk to waste time after something is wrong. Maybe I will wait like you say the 24 Jan to delay the ****, but only another 4 weeks; or maybe I let it go and then I recover completely to original configuration, but this is another 2 days of work. Someone should sue microshift for not asking permission to do this kind of **** to customers.

A few months ago I was forced to remove the innocuous pgp10 which I used only as single file encryption, ridiculously it said it is incompatible with 20H1. Very angry