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> Force is a strong word, since Windows provides ways to opt-out of feature upgrades.

I dunno, I've heard multiple reports of people leaving their machine alone and coming back to it having upgraded and rebooted into a new version, sometimes into an unrecoverable blue screen.

How would they have opted out of that?




Went through that with Win7 a few times. Eventually found a way to disable.

In this case, the forced W11 upgrade was forced on me by my company via push.


Whenever there's a way to disable it, it's usually discovered after the fact, and then next month a new setting is introduced which must also be disabled.

Fool me once, etc.




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