How to Cancel Windows 11 update?

Hi.

I applied these modifications in my company's environment, and we are still getting some computers upgraded to Windows 11. Is Microsoft pushing for that upgrade?

Is there any other way to stop Windows 11? We have some applications that are not compatible with W11, and we are trying to figure the best way to proceed with them.

To add a new registry key:

TargetReleaseVersion REG_DWORD 0x1

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate /v TargetReleaseVersion /t REG_DWORD /d 0x1

TargetReleaseVersionInfo REG_SZ 21H2

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate /v TargetReleaseVersionInfo /t REG_SZ /d 21H2

/v - The value name, under the selected Key, to add

/t - RegKey data types

/d - The data to assign to the registry ValueName being added

Hello Ian,

Why would you want to reverse it? If you are wanting to reverse it all because you want to download and install Windows 11, I believe you can just initiate that. Windows 11 is a whole new operating system for you so it will just take over everything that you have ever previously done in the registry.

You also can can go backwards with all the steps you took in the registry and set them back to what they were.

Having done this, csn I now reverse the process by deleting the WindowsUpdate folder from the registry editor?

Ok, I'm inspired. I'll give it a shot this week and see how it goes. :)

You are a brave woman!

Hi, Portland. I used Method 1 as described in this article.

Repair Windows 10 or 11 Using Command Prompt (5 Ways) (ubackup.com)

It took a long time to scan/repair, but it worked. You can also watch people doing it on YouTube, but I like the stills better for following along.

I should say that the idea was prompted when I did a Norton scan and it told me it found 198 broken registry items and wanted me to buy an add-on service to repair them for me. I went on a Google search, figuring there must be something built into the system to do this, and it turned out I was right! And just to be very clear, this was on a computer where I had not messed with any registry edits. Apparently it can happen from anything from malware attempts to old programs removed but leaving stuff behind.

Once that scan was done, I did do Method 2 for good measure. It took even longer but came up clean in the end. I ran Method 1 on my Surface Pro and it took a fraction of the time it had on my old desktop and came up clean, no registry errors. Which is nice, given that I had done the big, scary registry edit to block Windows 11.