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<h2>I’ve been offered Win 11, it has downloaded and now tells me to restart to install. So I have had to pause updates but I still want Windows 10 updates. Help!!!</h2>
<h1>TNX Lear</h1>

Lear R Warner

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I would restart and then immediately uninstall Windows 11.

When it was offered to you, did you click on the offering “block” on the screen? As it shouldn’t have been automatically downloaded, it should have just offered and then let you decide.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Lear

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<h2>OK! Thanks Susan. about 1/2 hour install and 10 minutes to get rid of it. Now I would say that’s about 10 years of my life wasted by MS.</h2>
<h2>I followed your advice and then I checked Windows update {nothing else clicked } & it started to d/l Win 11, no questions asked, I’ve paused the upgrade. HELP again.</h2>
 

Lear R Warner

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When you say “checked windows update” did you click on check for updates?

Because you say it’s in that spot where it’s prompting you to restart, my take is that it’s started the install.  I would then let it restart and assuming it does install, then I’d go into programs and features and uninstall it.  You can roll back.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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<h2>This afternoon after following your advice, installing & then uninstalling, I clicked Start/Settings/Windows Update/check for updates & that’s all, Windows 11 started to download, I immediately paused updates. Previously (Yesterday) after it had completed the D/L it would ask me to restart to install. I immediately paused updates.</h2>
<h2>Did I miss something? Should I click something to stop Windows 11 installing? My eyesight is atrocious. I’m nearly blind.</h2>
 

Lear R Warner

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Can you give me a screen shot of the windows update section?

For one thing, don’t click on “check for updates”

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Lear wrote:

then I checked Windows update {nothing else clicked } & it started to d/l Win 11, no questions asked, I’ve paused the upgrade. HELP again.

Never click on ‘Check for Updates’.

After restoring to previous version (Windows 10) you should have set TRV to Windows 10 and release 21H1 (or you current version if you are not on 21H1, which you should be).

If you run Pro version use GPEdit, if you are on Home version use registry settings.

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How to Uninstall Windows 11 and Roll Back to Windows 10 | Tom’s Hardware (tomshardware.com)

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Lear wrote:

My eyesight is atrocious. I’m nearly blind.

this may help
NEVER CLICK CHECK FOR UPDATES!

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Lear: “I clicked Start/Settings/Windows Update/check for updates & that’s all, Windows 11 started to download”

So, at MS old tricks are new again?

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I  never check for the updates, however, when paused and want to update, is it then acceptable to resume updates? That’s the way I have been doing things.

Win 10 Home 22H2

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If you install the group policy editor even though you have home, hopefully you get full control and can avoid the “pause” which lets in lots of bad stuff such as drivers. Then you can follow the recommendations of this site, including delay, TRV, and do not include drivers in updates.

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/07/how-to-enable-gpedit-msc-group-policy-on-windows-10-home-devices/

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Update: The method described below adds the Group Policy Editor GUI to the operating system but not the functionality.

Win 11 home - 24H2
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