Please go deeper (backwards) into this thread and it will give you specific instructions on how to stop Windows 11 from installing. It works. Just carefully follow the instructions. It is a registry change and Windows 11 will never install.
how do i stop downloading and installing windows 11
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how do i stop downloading and installing windows 11. I had a perfectly working computer before you ask me about this **** update. can't do anything with my computer now. so irritating when i have things to do and it's just destroyed and useless now. unbelievable i don't have time for this ****
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Anonymous
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2022-11-05T18:30:00+00:00 I have a ASUS desktop with synaptic speakers. They stopped working under windows 11. I use zoom and need sound. I tried everything for days to make them work without success. It took me hours to back out win 11. Now Microsoft is trying to force win 11 on my computer again and I have to refuse. Eventually win 11 will install without my permission. I want them to stop forcing an install on my computer.
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Anonymous
2022-10-30T18:59:53+00:00 Windows 10 (the latest version which we have and make sure you get the latest version) is supported until 2025.
By then, hopefully most of the god awful bugs in Windows 11 will be worked out.
You have nothing to worry about for right now, but you really should ditch Windows 11 until 2025.
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Anonymous
2022-10-30T17:57:10+00:00 I am mostly indifferent to Windows 11, but I do not want a situation where in a few months I will basically be S.O.L. because Windows 10 is longer supported. That would open a security whole the size of Asia and I have no desire to have to format, lose all my data and/or need to get a new machine because the one I have was destroyed by a hacker locking the system.
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Anonymous
2022-10-30T13:34:44+00:00 Do you want Windows 11? I'm not an expert, but if it were me because I don't want Windows 11, I would quickly go in and change the registry like so many of us did so that Windows 11 could NOT download and install. Just stay with Windows 10.
In fact if you now for sure, Windows 11 did not install, disconnect from the internet and make the registry changes. Then reboot up the computer. Windows 11 will simply disappear.