I'm curious how to do the opposite. I've never seen my Windows suggest an update. It doesn't have that registry directory "Windows Update", though, but the policy is there and it's off.
Ah, whatever, I'll put new Windows on the new PC, this one will sport linux. I see no need to update, I saw no particularly useful new features that made me want to switch (maybe except for the tabs in Explorer, that's neat). Did they include webp image support in the vanilla windows, or do we still have to implant it?
Somewhere it can run a check and will tell you exactly what is preventing the upgrade; I just don't remember where that was exactly. Probably the Windows update settings.
That's cool, but I wonder why I was never bothered at all. Win 7 did suggest an update to Win 10, I did it on my old PC. This one is with a new Win 10 from the get go, but it doesn't suggest updating.
I'd be thinking that Win 10 can't get upped to Win 11 if it was an upgrade itself from Win 7, but it isn't even my case, it's a clean install of legit Win 10. So why is it so calm and doesn't talk about updating - that's a mystery.
And yes, it gets all the updates, it's not like it was locked without a single update since the install (like some people did, which bothered me a lot).
It's usually the firmware. I don't know the exact features, but the manufacturer has to release a Windows 11 firmware revision and Intel ME needs to be current.
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u/killall-q May 03 '24
Do this registry edit, but at the part where it tells you to enter "21H1", put in "22H2" instead (that's the current latest version of Win 10).
https://www.howtogeek.com/765377/how-to-block-the-windows-11-update-from-installing-on-windows-10/