How to stop 21H1 from installing

confab said:

That's also helpful, and I made that change! I was able to disable automatic updates (presumably) in Configure Automatic Updates, which now shows: "Your organization has turned off automatic updates" in the Windows Update settings section. Do you know if those two policy changes might conflict by any chance?

Thanks again for all the help!

You could enable automatic updates and continue to receive security updates this way your defender is not updating everyday.

But no the two gpo are concurrent and even if you do manual updates Windows would not upgrade to a new Version

AddRAM said:

Why don`t you want to update to 21H1 ?

And 21H2 will be out any time now.

I'm trying to be a bit more proactive with MS in my old age. In short, I will not be forced into a passwordless login system either incrementally, through a slow boil, or by having it shoved down my noncompliant throat while being told how much I’m enjoying and benefiting from the experience. just wanted to add a smiley to soften the tone if that's possible.

The stickey to this forum speaks volumes as to how much we’ve given up and how much we continue down that road. Yes, I fully realize there are other options out there – two by my count. I should have been far more proactive decades ago when it came to computers and software, but alas time travel is still science fiction.

I actually remember a time when I looked forward to getting updates. Nowadays I do everything I can to avoid them without ever knowing or wanting to know what they contain. As such, I think there is one positive feature to Microsoft’s ever-present conditioning. It’s just not the outcome they intended to produce, at least with me.

And given Megahertz's comment, I may already be too late.

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MaloK said:

You could enable automatic updates and continue to receive security updates this way your defender is not updating everyday.

But no the two gpo are concurrent and even if you do manual updates Windows would not upgrade to a new Version

Thanks for the confirmation, MaloK!

Megahertz said:

Already has.
KB5007186 Windows 10 2004 19041.1348, 20H2 19042.1348, 21H1 19043.1348

21H2 is not officially out - that link is just people installing the Insider Enablement KB to get some unofficial 21H2 ahead of the official release.

No official 21H2 yet:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...se-information

confab said:

I'm sure this has been asked many times before. Nevertheless, is there a way to prevent the 21H1 update from installing on Windows 10 Pro?

20H2 - build 19042.1348

Hide or Show Windows Updates in Windows 10 use this to hide the 21H1 Enablement KB. I'm still using 2004 and will update when I no longer get CUs.

Microsoft may still have a way to force update us.

steve108 said:

21H2 is not officially out - that link is just people installing the Insider Enablement KB to get some unofficial 21H2 ahead of the official release.

No official 21H2 yet:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...se-information

well steve108, 21H2 is sort of officially out now - I just downloaded the recently released official 21H2 ISOs from MS (like Win10_21H2_English_x64.iso mentioned from this blog) and the ISO contains build 19044.1288 as I checked the contents of the ISO myself.

but 21H2 will eventually show up on WU later today for some systems

erpster4 said:

well steve108, 21H2 is sort of officially out now - I just downloaded the official 21H2 ISOs from MS (like Win10_21H2_English_x64.iso mentioned from this blog) and the ISO contains build 19044.1288 as I checked the contents of the ISO myself.

but 21H2 will eventually show up on WU later today for some systems

Yep, thanks for the update. The official release version of 21H2 ISO popped out of the Microsoft oven today, but no official enablement KB yet when I check Windows Updates.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...se-information still doesn't show 21H2 just yet.

The ISO version is 19044.1379 for the 11/16 ISO.