How to stop windows 11 from downloading

To block the Windows 11 update on your Windows 10 PC, you can set up a registry key to prevent the update from installing:

1. Registry Setup:

Open the Run dialog with Win + R, type regedit, and press Enter.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate.

If the WindowsUpdate key doesn’t exist, create it.

Inside WindowsUpdate, create a new DWORD value named DisableOSUpgrade and set it to 1.

2. Restart Your Computer to apply the changes.

If Windows 11 has already started downloading, this may not stop it immediately. In that case, you might need to roll back to Windows 10 if the update is installed.

For detailed instructions, check out this:

https://www.howtogeek.com/765377/how-to-block-the-windows-11-update-from-installing-on-windows-10/

Let me know how it goes!

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Gowtham Cp2y ago
To block the Windows 11 update on your Windows 10 PC, you can set up a registry key to prevent the update from installing:

1. Registry Setup:

Open the Run dialog with Win + R, type regedit, and press Enter.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate.

If the WindowsUpdate key doesn’t exist, create it.

Inside WindowsUpdate, create a new DWORD value named DisableOSUpgrade and set it to 1.

2. Restart Your Computer to apply the changes.

If Windows 11 has already started downloading, this may not stop it immediately. In that case, you might need to roll back to Windows 10 if the update is installed.

For detailed instructions, check out this:

https://www.howtogeek.com/765377/how-to-block-the-windows-11-update-from-installing-on-windows-10/

Let me know how it goes!
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