Question Are these the only registry settings needed to block the annoying windows 11 nagging?

BurnItDwn · Apr 26, 2025

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
TargetReleaseVersionInfo = {Feature release such as “21H1”, “21H2”, etc.}
TargetReleaseVersion = 1
ProductVersion = {Windows major version, “10”, “11”, “12”, etc.}
DisableOSUpgrade = 1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsStore
DisableOSUpgrade = 1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\UpgradeNotification
UpgradeAvailable = 0

I have 1 windows box and I'm too lazy to upgrade it to Arch for now.
Every month or so it threatens to install some garbagecrap called "windows 11."

I've already been subjected to the horrors of windows 11 at work. No way im going to put that on my own hardware.

Am I missing any registry keys to prevent that, or are these the correct ones?

Shmee · Tuesday at 6:59 AM

Hello, I am not really familiar with the registry tweaking for this, but I believe you could also just disable Windows update altogether on your system if you want. If your windows 10 is updated so far, it might not make much difference from now on as there aren't many updates recently or going forward for Windows 10. Assuming you have Windows 10 Pro, you can do so with the group policy editor. Or with other tools, such as Winaero tweaker.

BurnItDwn · Thursday at 5:29 AM

Shmee said:
Hello, I am not really familiar with the registry tweaking for this, but I believe you could also just disable Windows update altogether on your system if you want. If your windows 10 is updated so far, it might not make much difference from now on as there aren't many updates recently or going forward for Windows 10. Assuming you have Windows 10 Pro, you can do so with the group policy editor. Or with other tools, such as Winaero tweaker.

Yes, running Pro here.
I figured i'd let it do windows 10 updates at least for security purposes until I upgrade this pc over to Linux.

I've been running Winaero tweaker for quite a few years, that and Openshellmenu to improve usability, but, I think I honestly like the look and feel of KDE Plasma over Aero, but, its close.

tecknot · 2025-05-02T11:20:18-0400

Hi BurnItDwn,

Here is a tutorial from the Windows 10 Forums which instructs how to stick with Windows 10 at a specific feature update using Group Policy Editor: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials...rget-feature-update-version-windows-10-a.html

Hope that helps.

Kind regards,

tecknot

Question Are these the only registry settings needed to block the annoying windows 11 nagging?

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