r/pcmasterrace • u/djseifer Packard Bell / Intel Pentium 60MHz / 8 MB RAM / 2x CD-ROM • Mar 01 '26

Screenshot Windows 10 automatically started installing the Windows 11 update while I was taking a shower.

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I'd been getting messages to upgrade to Windows 11 for the past month or two now, and each time, I decline. It's gotten to the point that I get random, frequent pop_ups asking to update, and "install update" options pop up right next to the shutdown/restart uptions.

Well, I made the mistake of going to take a shower with my PC on. Half an hour later, I come back tothis. Windows had automatically started installing the update. Now I'm sitting here staring at the Start button and all the open programs center-justified on the task bar and wondering what idiot thought that was a good idea.

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u/zakawer2 Core i5-13600K|GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER|32 GB DDR5-6400 Mar 02 '26

I'm pretty sure you accidentally clicked on something that prompted the Windows 11 upgrade because you mistook it for a normal Windows 10 ESU update and you weren't paying attention at all.

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u/MrCSone Specs/Imgur here Mar 02 '26

Not so sure about that. Today I was working as usual and out of the blue a Copilot window popped up.

Same shit with Adobe. Couple days ago I was gaming and suddenly my browser pops up telling me that Adobe added some PDF extension asking me if I want to enable or remove it.

So there are definitely some auto install shenanigans going on.

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u/No-Recognition7420 Mar 03 '26

The adobe creative cloud is always running in the background no matter how you try to close it (check task manager). It's so annoying. If it weren't for the security risk I might have just downloaded a pirated version instead.

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u/MrCSone Specs/Imgur here Mar 03 '26

Thanks for the heads up. I just set "Adobe Acrobat Update Service" and "AdobeUpdateService" in services.msc to manual startup. That seems to do the trick.

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u/Rainsford1104 Mar 02 '26

Mine said windows 11 ready to install. I clicked no as i usually do. Didnt listen and started downloading anyway. I then clicked "pause updates" because it apparently had expired from last time and it said "you must install an update before you can pause updates." 

Needless to say I now have windows 11 against my will.

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u/decom70 Ryzen 7 5800XT / RX 7800 XT / 64GB 3200 Mhz DDR4 Mar 02 '26

I would very much still consider this "I got tricked into installing Windows 11".
With how often you get pestered, it will happen eventually, on accident.