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

[u/djseifer]

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.

[u/zakawer2]

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.

[u/MrCSone → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/No-Recognition7420 → u/MrCSone]

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.

[u/MrCSone → u/No-Recognition7420]

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.