How to Cancel Windows 11 update?

Hi, Portland. I think that when Windows 10 is no longer supported, and we must take the plunge to Windows 11, what we would do is follow the same registry edit instructions, just changing the input at these last two steps (as copied from Rodrigo Quieroz's original instructions):

"Again on the right side of the screen , right click > New > String Value > and name it ProductVersion , double click it and set Value Data to Windows 10" Set the value to Windows 11 instead

"Again on the right side of the screen , right click > New > String Value > and name it TargetReleaseVersionInfo , double click it and set Value Data to 21h2" Set to whatever the latest version is at the time you are doing this. Right now, for example, it appears to be 23H2.

Once we do that, I think Windows 11 will download whenever we next update. I think it may also be true that if you skip the version step, erasing the version you had for Windows 10 but not adding a new version, then you will automatically get whatever is the current version of Windows 11 and any updates as they come out. It's like filling in the version creates a ceiling of sorts, beyond which updates will not install, so leaving the ceiling off lets you get Windows 11 updates as they come out. My plan is to try that first and only edit the registry to include a version if that does not work.

Hello Lynn,

I'm so happy you answered my question. It is interesting in that I'm not the only one asking this question now, but the answers are all over the map.

I had assumed it would be going back into the registry, but was unclear as to what the new entries should be.

I hate the idea of going to Windows 11, but I see no options after end of life for Windows 10. I figured I stand a better change of upgrading in order to save most of my current programs that I have installed rather than just purchase a brand new lap top. My Dell Laptop is only 4 years old.

Please keep me in the loop as we get closer to that moment of reckoning and I'll do the same.

You have been and continue to be my inspiration with this issue.

Melanie

Will do, Melanie. I feel like we have become cyberfriends through this process!

We are! I so count on you Lynn! I'll have to figure out a way where we can privately message each other outside of this forum.

I haven't found the answer yet.

Mel

Yeah, I don't know how to do that either. And putting one's email in an open forum would be ill-advised, we both know! I get tons of junk emails and calls from having contact info on my business website, but that is unavoidable.