Of course nothing will be certain until October 5, but is there any recent information about how to block the Windows 11 update?
There are numerous copy-pasted articles from around July 2021. They all refer to a registry path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
. That path does not exist on my machine. I have not tinkered with the registry before, and the absence of this path has not prevented Windows Update from running. This gives me doubts about whether creating it and following the instructions will have any effect.
HKLM\Software
before making registry changes and you can easily restore the pre-change situation.WindowsUpdate
path, just the keys within it. If you think that's the solution, please post an answer to be voted on.