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Woke up this morning to my computer restarted and a Windows 11 installation

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So I have automatic updates disabled, mainly for situations like this. So when I woke up this morning to see one of my monitors off with the other on the windows installation screen, I was very concerned. Worst part was it took me a while to figure out the options to keep Windows 10, because it was hidden behind some other link options. To top it off, I had to locate it 3 times before it went back to my normal desktop in Windows 10. I now have my windows update option in my task tray asking me to continue the windows 11 installation. What the hell? Why is this being forced on people that have the options disabled?

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It’s generally better to keep auto-updates on so that you can get a timely security fix in case there’s a vulnerability found in an app you’re using—but whether you should enable or disable auto-updates comes down to personal preference.

While this has been heavily discussed.

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I disabled the W11 upgrade by turning off TPM. This made my PCs incompatible with W11 and I get to keep W10 updates enabled.

I will not start another discussion about why the W11 upgrade is not a automatic update but classified as something else. Instead I’ll share how I disabled it entirely.

Re: TPM

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/tpm/initialize-and-configure-ownership-of-the-tpm tells about TPM and how to disable it, if you can’t do it in the BIOS/UEFI setup.

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