Stop upgrade to Windows 11

Anonymous
2021-12-29T22:24:33+00:00

I upgraded to Windows 11 and reverted back to Windows 10. Now Windows 10 automatically attempts to download and install Windows 11 again. See below:

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I can Pause Updates but doing so doesn't allow me to update Windows 10 "patches." I'm being forced to Upgrade to Windows 11 without the ability to stop it.

I want to cancel the Upgrade to Windows 11 (download/installation) process which initiated on its own without my consent. The current status is how it shows in the image above - ready to download and then install Windows 11 but there is no way to stop it.

What I want:

  • Windows 10 to stop Upgrade to Windows 11 process
  • Ability to update Windows 10 without it upgrading/installing to Windows 11
  • Windows 10 with the ability to update patches
Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-11-25T21:13:23+00:00

    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!

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-11-25T21:10:44+00:00

    I have deactivated the installation of updates in windows10 and get no windows11 anymore (:

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-11-25T21:10:06+00:00

    I have deactivated the installation of updates in windows10 and get no windows11 anymore (:

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-11-25T21:07:56+00:00

    I have deactivated the installation of updates in windows10 and get no windows11 anymore (:

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-11-25T21:00:59+00:00

    I was asked to upgrade a friend's laptop to 11 last week, he thought he was doing fine but something borked his install.

    When I got it apart I find an old fashioned 5400rpm hdd, the darn little thing had so many bad blocks it was unusable.

    All I could save (using Discgenius) were the large thumbnails of the pictures he' had taken on his iPhone.
    He must have dropped the thing and was too embarrassed to tell me ;)

    Anyway back to 11....**** were they thinking, putting start in the center of the screen?

    MS loves screwing with their customers by changing some necessary function, then calling it a "New Feature" that you just Have to Have.

    Worse, along with trying to teach us old horses new tricks they decided to end windows 10 support in a year or 2, remember, windows 10 "The Last Version" of windows.
    Aggravation.....Grrrrrrr.....

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