This browser is no longer supported.
Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(128, 8%, 22%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EA%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
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 ****
Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.
Hello Susan!,
Wow! Thank you for posting this. My computer is paused until March 28th now. Praying that when I go back in to pause again, I also get that message about staying with Windows 10.
Please follow up with what happens. Maybe there is hope on the horizon!!!!
This answer has been deleted due to a violation of our Code of Conduct. The answer was manually reported or identified through automated detection before action was taken. Please refer to our Code of Conduct for more information.
Comments have been turned off. Learn more
HI PortlandMT This morning all seems well so I checked in Settings->notifications. The Windows 11 install that I had put on pause twice since Dec 21 2021 is still listed but as you can see the Windows 10 21H1 update is there too. Also lower down you can see that although I paused Windows 11 other Updates were added. People here had suggested that by pausing Windows 11 we would also be pausing Windows 10 updates for security etc.
I now also have the option to update to the Windows 10 newer version 21H2
"The next version of Windows is available with new features and security improvements. When you're ready for the update, select "Download and install."
Still keeping a wary eye on W11 though. :-)
Check your settings, maybe you don't have to wait till next pause?!
Susan
Hi Susan,
The photo is so small that I can't really see it. Can you post a larger photo?
Hi - Thank you Susan67 for your post. I also just clicked on "Stay with Windows 10 For Now" link since its newly available to me as a result of checking in response to this post. I am looking forward to continuing with Windows 10 "for now", hopefully without the manual intervention that was required every few weeks to avoid the automated update to Windows 11 and then manually allowing the other Windows 10 updates to go ahead before having to cut off the Windows 11 update repeatedly, which was very annoying. The original problem of course being the failure of Windows 11 since it performed very poorly on my PC (and included negative features such as freezing the task bar to the bottom of the screen instead of allowing the side of the screen as I prefer it).
