If you donwgrade from Windows 11 to Windows 10 but it still shows a pending install for Windows 11, try this:
A few days ago I upgraded to Windows 11 and was really enjoying it. But today, I realized I could not use Oculus Link on my Quest 2. I decidded to dowmgrade, and to my surprise, when I was back on Windows 10 it still showed like there was an update pending for windoes 11 which will install as soon as I restart.
And there is no option to stop it. You can pause updates, but then you will not get any updates for Winows 10. I thought maybe it's a bug and it will nto actually upgrade to Winows 11 again, but as soon as I restarted it went back into the installation process and I was on Windows 11 again.
After downgrading a second time, I was back at square one. The update section still showed a pending update for W11 that would be installed when I restart. So what I decided to do was to install the lastest version of Windows 10 from Microsoft's website. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
So I was on Windows 10, and installing Windows 10 again from that link. It installed in the background, and after restart, the update section no longer showed a pending install of Windows 11.
I will try 11 again in a year, or when I find out Oculus supports W11. The UI and sounds are pretty cool.
Posted Jan 29, 2022, 8:41 PM UTC
Windows 11 will still appear again as a pending update after some time, though. The only way I found to stop the auto upgrade to 11 without blocking updates to 10 was by using this group policy (or the corresponding registry key if you're on a Home edition)...
Oh no. Fucking Microsoft...
Did this really happen to you? It seems like very odd behaviour because now the update section asks if you want to upgrade to 11. It seems unusual for it to install the update if I do not choose Yes.
It did. This prompt you mentioned never appeared to me though, even after updating to the latest Windows 10 version with the Media Creation Tool. After a few days, Windows 11 simply started downloading automatically then appeared as a "pending update"...
Cool, thanks. I will try the group policy method if this happens.