Stop upgrade to Windows 11

Microsoft are a bunch of ****. I like my task bar on the side of my screen, now I can only have it at the bottom, and yea, what is that junk about having it in the middle so that basically buttons/icons just keep moving based on how many things are open? Then there is this thing where you have any 2 or more related windows with their buttons on top of each other, I would like to do bodily harm to the jerk that came up with this. IT SLOWS DOWN MY USE OF MY COMPUTER, I AM LESS PRODUCTIVE!!!!!! So back to 10, now I can have my taskbar to the right and see everything that is open and go to it in 1 click not a mouse over, 20 seconds trying to guess which preview is the right one (seriously, try it with explorer!!!) and then click. which ever jerk came up with this had so much time on their hands clearly that they should be fired as they have nothing to do! I don't have such time to waste over microsofts naval gazing!

I too will NEVER upgrade past Windows 10. I have a buddy that works at Microsoft as one of the software development engineers. And he made it clear the direction, Microsoft is going. FULL control in THEIR hands of our computers. And eventually a subscription based use of Windows.

Microsoft can kiss my backside because I will not be beholden to a corporation for MY OWN systems, my OWN USE of those systems and how I want to do things. Windows 10 is the last money, Microsoft will ever get from me and Windows 11 is a clear example of why.

Microsoft are a bunch of ****. I like my task bar on the side of my screen, now I can only have it at the bottom, and yea, what is that junk about having it in the middle so that basically buttons/icons just keep moving based on how many things are open? Then there is this thing where you have any 2 or more related windows with their buttons on top of each other, I would like to do bodily harm to the jerk that came up with this. IT SLOWS DOWN MY USE OF MY COMPUTER, I AM LESS PRODUCTIVE!!!!!! So back to 10, now I can have my taskbar to the right and see everything that is open and go to it in 1 click not a mouse over, 20 seconds trying to guess which preview is the right one (seriously, try it with explorer!!!) and then click. which ever jerk came up with this had so much time on their hands clearly that they should be fired as they have nothing to do! I don't have such time to waste over microsofts naval gazing!

**** answer... hack the registry to stop an update ... ?

We have software that does not support windows 11 yet. and Microcrap upgraded a users PC without asking. Total **** from Microcrap.

thanks for the explanation. Then I'm also curious about these answers.

My laptop automatically updated to Windows 11 (before I reversed it) and that caused so much trouble that I thought something was seriously wrong with my system. I described these in another post . The computer couldn't start up anymore, that resulted in stopcodes and caused me hours to figure out what could cause the problem and how to solve it (no solution found). Reversing the update back to Windows 10 immediately made all problems go away.

So, now I don't dare to update to Windows 11 again anymore.

Although I think my system should be capable to handle Windows 11.

It would be nice to know if and when a version of Windows 11 is released that has no longer these 'early bird' issues. To know when it is safe to try again.

In the table of contents you can see, it also has a part about 'how to continue getting Windows 10 updates'

Before I posted anything to this thread, I had looked over those instructions in great detail. I did see the section about 'How to continue getting Windows 10 Updates.' That article is dated Nov 6, 2021 and describes to set the TargetUpdate item to 21H1. It states (emphasis mine):

"If you followed the above methods exactly, you have prevented your Windows 10 PC from getting any updates after the 21H1 update. This means it will block any Windows 10 updates, too, which you probably don’t want to do.

To get around that, keep an eye on the Microsoft Docs site to check for newer versions of Windows 10. Once you see a new update there, say 21H2, then in the steps above where you entered “21H1”, change that to “21H2” (without quotes).

That will allow you to continue to get Windows 10 updates while blocking the Windows 11 update."

But if you look at the "Window 11 Current Versions" I posted above. You will see that the first Windows 11 version is also 21H2.
Win 11 was (according to the table) released on Oct 4, 2021 and the Win 10 21H2 release was on Nov 4, 2021. So if a user is on a system that supports Windows 11, and changed the TargetVersion to 21H2, will the system be upgraded to Win 11 or will Win 10 be updated because is has a later release date?

I don't have a Win 11 compatible machine so I can't test it. When there are future updates and patches for either version how does the user prevent Windows 11 from being installed. I have no idea. All I know is what I read in these articles. Someone with more in depth knowledge of the release plans, and how Update works, will need to clarify that for me or tell me where I've interpreted this incorrectly.

To me, setting the version string to the same value causes no end of confusion.