how do i stop downloading and installing windows 11

Hello johnsoderberg,

Good day! I'm John Dev a Windows user like you and I'll be happy to assist you today. I know this has been difficult for you, Rest assured, I'm going to do my best to help you.

Interrupting the upgrade process can cause your system to become unstable and not work properly. I recommend waiting for it to finish and check Kapil Arya’s guide below on How to Downgrade from Windows 11 to 10.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.

Kind regards,

John DeV

Independent Advisor

Hello John

I also upgraded to Windows 11 and found that some things did not work. I went through the steps in Kapil's guide. Everything was fine - until the next day when I found that Windows 11 had been automatically installed again!!!!! Went through the rollback process.

Now the question is: how do I KEEP windows 11 off my computer?

I saw one post about modifying the registry under WindowsUpdate by adding/setting TargetReleaseVersion to "1" and TargetReleaseVersionInfo to "21H2." According to the article this restricts automatic updates to that release version. Is this a valid solution?

However, I don't want to do this. Right now I have the Windows Update service disabled.

FYI - I am running a windows home version of 10.

Please help!

Thank you.

I'm having the same problem as David. First it said there was a problem downloading and reverted itself back to 10. Then it apparently sent data to whoever about the error and downloaded 11 again. Version 11 kept dropping out my bluetooth headphones and playing videos weirdly, and everything is also slow and makes my laptop motor really loud all the time. I need bluetooth to study for a test to get a job. So I attempted a bunch of things to fix it like changing settings and whatnot and downloaded more updates that it said might help. None of that worked so I had it go back to 10. Now the next day it's trying to download 11 again. I managed to stop it but now it says it's going to force the download when I turn off my computer. I only have three days to study for this test and instead so far two of those days has been spent messing around with this problem. This is absolutely ridiculous. I can't study without a computer and bluetooth as all the materials are only available digitally and online, and now I don't have a working computer. And I just realized you look like a kid, and this problem isn't going to be solved anytime soon. Microsoft has to be told that this is breaking people's computers and stopping us from doing important things that need to get done. Either fix windows 11 or stop trying to force it on me.