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By: Ron Metzger       
Date: Apr 12,2022 at 07:50
In Response to: [Discuss] Avoid ! (Laurent Duchastel)

> > I'm not too pressed to upgrade
> > to W11, as W10 has been just perfectly stable
> > over the years. I'm just wondering what you guys are doing in this
> > area,
> > Andrew, as usual, probably being the most eager to try new things.
> >
> > It came to me as a surprise that my CPU (according to PC Health Check
> > app)
> >
> > Intel Core i7-4770 3.40GHz, 64-bit Haswell, 4 cores, 8 threads, 8MB
> > cache
> >
> > is not supported on Windows 11, in addition to my TPM being 1.2,
> rather
> > than
> > the required 2.0, so I'll just stick to W10 for ever, unless there
> are
> > workarounds and hacks to beat these limitations.
> >
>
> Avoid at all cost.
>
> Installed it twice, uninstalled it twice. Back to Win10 on the three
> computers I use.
>
> I installed it on my desktop and two laptops, one being a not so old MS
> Surface 5 yet "not compatible" (!) (I forced clean installed), but I
> hate this OS.
>
> Apart bad choices design, it has bugs and performance issues,
> especially on my AMD Ryzen desktop. WinExplorer turns sluggish and freeze
> after one hour or two, forcing reboot or task manager manual restart of
> the process.
>
> Some utilities I use do not work well or at all with Win11.
>
> Waiting for Win 12 ;-)
> It confirms the thumb-rule that one Windows release out of two sucks
> (WinME, Vista, Win8, etc.)

Here is a Batch file with notes on .reg and Group Policy edits to
BLOCK Windowds 11 upgrades.

@echo off

REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v "TargetReleaseVersion" /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f 1>NUL 2>NUL
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v "TargetReleaseVersionInfo" /t REG_SZ /d 21H2 /f 1>NUL 2>NUL


for /F "usebackq skip=2 tokens=1-2*" %%G in (`Reg QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v "TargetReleaseVersion" 2^>NUL`) do if NOT "%%~I"=="" set "_w11.%%~G=%%~I"
for /F "usebackq skip=2 tokens=1-2*" %%G in (`Reg QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v "TargetReleaseVersionInfo" 2^>NUL`) do if NOT "%%~I"=="" set "_w11.%%~G=%%~I"

set "_w11.Status=--Enabled--"
if defined _w11.TargetReleaseVersion (
if defined _w11.TargetReleaseVersionInfo (
set "_w11.Status=Blocked"
)
)
if /i "%_w11.Status%"=="--Enabled--" echo To block Windows 11 Upgrades, please re-run %0 'As Administrator.'
echo Windows 11 Upgrade is %_w11.Status%.
pause
exit

REGEDIT4

;; Block Windows 11 upgrade from Windows Update -> keep at Windows 10 21H2
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
"TargetReleaseVersion"=dword:00000001
"TargetReleaseVersionInfo"="21H2"


;; GPEdit
;; Local Computer Policy
;; Computer Configuration
;; Administrative Templates
;; Windows Components
;; Windows Update
;; Windows Update for Business
;; Setting=Select the target Feature Update version
;; Enabled
;; Options:
;; Which Windows product version would you like to
;; receive feature updates for? e.g., Windows 10
;; Windows 10
;; Target Version for Feature Updates
;; 21H2

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