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Windows 11 continually re-installing itself

Anonymous
2022-01-24T22:19:51+00:00

Lenovo laptop with Windows 10 Pro.

User accepted upgrade to Win 11, but that broke printing (Canon printer that in 11 reports as offline - that will need to be resolved but for another day).

Chose Go Back to Windows 10 which worked fine. Within hours 11 d/l'd again and installed

Went into Local Group Policy and set Target Version for Future Updates to 21H1

No joy, Win 11 reinstalls itself after a short time.

I just need to buy time under Windows 10 till I can determine if there is a workaround for the printer that Canon apparently does not plan to offer a Windows 11 driver for. But the headache is that Windows 11 keeps forcing itself on me, and I wonder if the original date it went to Windows 11 is still counting down to lock me into 11 or rebuild the entire system from scratch.

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  1. John DeV 164.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-01-24T22:52:05+00:00

    Hello Canuck_geoff,

    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.

    **Please check if "Pausing the updates" helps.

    **Please try Sumit's solution in the older thread below with a similar problem.

    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

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