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
    2022-01-12T08:23:42+00:00

    I deleted the contents of this folder and it removed the "Windows 11 is ready to install" icon by the clock.
    Now what gets me, I have all sorts of registry blocks in place. I also have it set to metered network and NOT to update / upgrade over metered.
    But it decided to anyway. Which killed my internet speed.

    So now I not only deleted the contents of that folder. I also set it to read only and under security revoked ALL system access to that folder. Lets see if Windows gets the hint now..... If this keeps happening, time for Linux. I REFUSE to have an OS be malware and force itself on me. I DO NOT WANT 11.
    Heck I didn't even want 10.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-12T08:46:10+00:00

    If there was a class action against microshift I would immediately join it. I'm fed-up of their arrogance

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-13T15:50:29+00:00

    I would be right there with you! My husband installed 11 on his surface and seems to like it well enough. so I thought it would be fine on mine. I think it runs slower, so I went back to10, but of course like everyone else it still downloads, and now the lag time between command and action is an issue and I am clueless where to go from here

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-13T16:03:36+00:00

    I know many folks who did install Windows 11. No issues other than some minor tweaking. Maybe you should install Windows 11 again and just try to live with it.

    Other people have rolled back to Windows 10 after using Windows 11 for a few days. You are expressing the issues they have seen and some are even worse. Something happens during the rollback to Windows 10 that then really messes up your computer.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-13T23:55:10+00:00

    I think I have an actual fix for this issue. I tried it on my laptop, and it stopped wanting to install Windows 11. Windows Update indicates that the installation is 'Up to date', and the big Windows 11 upgrade 'box' is nowhere to be seen.

    Steps:

    1. Open a command prompt with admin privileges

    C:\WINDOWS\system32> net stop wuauserv

    C:\WINDOWS\system32> net stop bits

    This will stop the Windows Update service and Background Intelligent Download Service from doing stuff while you create the registry keys and delete the Windows 11 files that it will otherwise want to redownload.

    1. Add the registry key Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

    Under that key

    Add DWORD "TargetReleaseVersion" set it to 1

    Add String "TargetReleaseVersionInfo" set it to "21H2"

    (without any of the quotes)

    1. Delete the catalog 'C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\29915d28b757d79214ddd971f3fd6134'

    This catalog contains the Windows 11 upgrade files.

    You have to delete the catalog itself, not just the files in it.

    The catalog name is an Id, and is enough to make Windows Update resume the Windows 11 download, unless you delete it.

    1. Reboot

    Done.

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