Stop windows update from downloading windows 11 without my consent

Question

Windows 10 downloaded the windows 11 update file without my consent, after i paused the update service, deleted the content of the C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution folder, and restarted, i pressed check for updates and windows automatically started downloading windows 11 update files without my consent.

How do I stop windows from doing this, I only want security updates and optional driver updates

Answer 1

1

Click your Start Button, then just type cmd and from the resulting list, right click Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator'

Paste this command into Command Prompt and press Enter:

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate /v TargetReleaseversion /t REG_DWORD /d 1

Paste this command into Command Prompt and press Enter::

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate /v TargetReleaseversionInfo /t REG_SZ /d 22H2

Close Command Prompt

2

Open File Explorer, then navigate to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download

Delete the contents of that folder, not the folder itself and restart (not shut down) your PC.

3

In the future, if you want to upgrade to Windows 11, you will need to open the Registry Editor, then navigate to this location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

Then delete the TargetReleaseversion and TargetReleaseversionInfo entries.