I accidentally clicked update to windows 11

Question

I accidentally clicked update to windows 11 and i cant find a cancel button, any help please?

Answer 1

Do NOT try to cancel the upgrade. That will leave your computer in an unstable, possibly unbootable state.

Instead, allow the upgrade to complete. Then immediately go to Start menu > Settings > System > Recovery and 'Go back' to Windows 10.

Answer 2

I accidentally clicked update to windows 11 and i cant find a cancel button, any help please?

I have a similar problem but the windows 11 status is still "downloading." So I paused updates to stop the download. However, when I resume updates, windows 11 immediately starts downloading again. Is there a way I can cancel the download or would it be best to let windows 11 download, install, then use the "Go Back to Windows 10" feature?

Answer 3

My mother-in-law clicked "allow" on the upgrade when prompted - unfortunately there was only allow or deny, no decide later option. Windows11 was installed but it slowed down the system to an almost inoperable speed. I restored Win10, but immediately the system starts downloading Win11 and installs it again. So I did the downgrade a second time.

This is extremely annoying. I tried several registry edits, from disallowing AU's to setting target builds, but the AutoUpdater continues to download Win11. I guess somewhere the WindowsOS saved the upgrade approval and is acting on it.

Does anybody know where that might be and how to rescind the approval to upgrade to win11?

Answer 4

I had the same problem. The computer keeps trying to get me to upgrade to wim 11 even after i was rolling back to win 10.

I deleted everything in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\\

I turned off TPM in the bios.

It was still trying to download win 11.

Then i did an "in place upgrade"to my windows 10 (in my case 21H2).

That did the trick. I was then again asked if I wanted to upgrade to win 11, and could click NO.

It has hereafter only bothered me with normal win10 updates.

Answer 5

Yah, this is broken. I updated to Win11 - found some incompatibilities with drivers I need, so I did the revert. And now it's trying to download and install again. How do I make it stop!