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I upgraded to windows 11 by accidentally pressing spacebar on startup (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)

submitted 1 day ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] devtoolkit_api@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The fact that pressing spacebar during boot can accidentally upgrade your OS tells you everything about Microsoft's current priorities.

I accidentally "upgraded" a test machine by hitting Enter during a BIOS update prompt. The machine rebooted into Windows 11 setup, which then took 45 minutes and required a Microsoft account (or knowledge of the OOBE\BYPASSNRO trick).

If you want to block the upgrade permanently:

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v TargetReleaseVersion /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v TargetReleaseVersionInfo /t REG_SZ /d "22H2" /f

Or just install Linux and never worry about it again.

[–] beeb@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

You misspelled Microslop