For Windows 10 users who want to avoid the Windows 11 nagging

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  1. ciscokid

    ciscokid MDL Senior Member

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    Hi everyone, I found a couple of Group Policy settings in my travels across the Internet. Good for older computers that you never plan on using Windows 11 with.

    I entered these settings into my copy of Windows 10 and haven't seen a peep out of the Windows 11 upgrade nags.

    Just a warning though, this will block the Insider Preview screen on Windows 10, personally this doesn't bother me as long as I don't have to look at the Windows 11 nags.

    Go into Group Policy (run gpedit.msc)

    LOCK WINDOWS FEATURE UPDATE VERSION (This will get rid of the Windows 11 update nags)
    Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Update/Windows Update for Business/Select the target Feature Update version (I typed in Windows 10 and 25H2 for future updates)

    LOCK INSIDER PREVIEW SCREEN
    Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Data Collection and Preview Builds/Toggle user controls (set to disabled)

    I haven't seen one peep out of Windows 11 updates since setting these (and I don't care either way about Insider Previews) so I'm pretty happy with it.
     
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  3. AveYo

    AveYo MDL Expert

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    It's fine? I've introduced 25H1 instead of an existing version to not lock to a particular one, and allow freedom to upgrade from older 10 versions. But any value would work. Im currently going with 1507 if I want to block all upgrades.
     
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  4. ciscokid

    ciscokid MDL Senior Member

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    I'm using 25H2 so it's free to upgrade Windows 10 going forward but it won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11. I have other computers which support Windows 11 natively anyway.
     
  5. erpsterm35

    erpsterm35 MDL Guru

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    works on at least Win10 Pro or higher edition only
    Win10 Core/Home do not have Group Policy (run gpedit.msc)
    can't do these on home editions
     
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  7. atgpud2003

    atgpud2003 MDL Addicted

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    I got same thing, All I had to adjust group policy on OS to change 21H2 and solved the problems ! Took couple of minute do that..

    ATGPUD2003