[SOLVED] is there a way to stop Win 11 from being offered everytime W10 receive an update?

[Tac 25]

Hi, for a few times now.. it seems each time my 10600k pc update it's windows 10 (this is the only pc in the house compatible with W11), Win 11 becomes offered on the reboot. It's becoming a bit annoying now, as I don't intend to upgrade yet.

question: is there an option I can tick in windows update, so that W11 is not offered?

reason for refusing to upgrade:

1. Have a fear that upgrading to W11 might bring in errors.

 

[Isaac Zackary]

I was able to click on a button that said something like "stay with Windows 10 for now". So it no longer asked me every update for a few different updates until I clicked on a button that said something to the effects "see if device is ready for Windows 11." At any rate, I was able to get rid of it easily.

I might go back to Windows 10. There don't seem to be any advantages in running Windows 11 and it takes out a few nice features for me anyhow.

 

[hotaru.hino]

There's usually no need to manually go into Settings to check for Windows updates, and as far as I know, Microsoft hasn't forced an upgrade. Heck the last few times I was aware of a Windows update was because I got an icon in the clock area saying I needed to restart.

 

[Isaac Zackary]

There's usually no need to manually go into Settings to check for Windows updates, and as far as I know, Microsoft hasn't forced an upgrade. Heck the last few times I was aware of a Windows update was because I got an icon in the clock area saying I needed to restart.

We'll I think that depends on how you use your computer. Some of us old farts were so used to shutting down our computers many from my generation still do that. Or maybe the person has a laptop they don't want left even in Sleep or Stand-by mode so they keep it shut off most of the time. When that happens the computer never has time to update on it's own. So I've seen computers that right when the user needs to do something important, it goes into update-or-bust mode and can become impossible to use, and potentially for quite a long time especially if it's still rocking a hard drive.

I work away from an sort of a building with interenet so I go in and update manually whenever I can. For me it was having it say "not Windows 11 compatible" that was kind of a bothersome thing to see every time I went to update.

 

[SkyNetRising]

question: is there an option I can tick in windows update, so that W11 is not offered?

Click on "Stay on windows 10 for now".

 

[Tac 25]

@Isaac Zackary

will try to find that button.

@SkyNetRising

oh, that looks like it would fix my problem. Cannot do it right now, another pc is plugged into the monitor. But I will attempt that when get home from work later today.

@hotaru.hino

it's not forcing an automatic upgrade into W11, but the problem is Windows asks if I want W11 - almost always after each time W10 updates itself. An update usually requires a reboot, I get the "W11 advertisement" after the reboot.

 

[Colif]

if you have win 10 Pro you can use Group Policy edit

If you don't, you can edit registry.
if you edit registry, back it up first - https://neosmart.net/wiki/backup-restore-registry/
both fixes are here: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/08/how-to-block-the-windows-11-upgrade-on-windows-10-pcs/

 

[Nine Layer Nige]

Could you turn off TPM in the BIOS as that is one of the W11 criteria, but I dont know if that may comromise your security.

 

[Tac 25]

thanks for all who suggested a solution.

found the button that @SkyNetRising showed in his post.

 

[Isaac Zackary]

Could you turn off TPM in the BIOS as that is one of the W11 criteria, but I dont know if that may comromise your security.

The button @SkyNetRising and I mentioned will get rid of it entirely with only a small "check to see if your computer is ready for Windows 11" statement. But if you disable the TPM now you have a red circle with an X in it saying "Not compatible with Windows 11" which you can't make go away into some small print or something.

 

[Tac 25]

final update to the thread.

have chosen stay on windows 10 for now. And my pc is peaceful again.