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I need an easy way out of the Win11 dev channel to regular version without reinstall everything
I was one of early tryout user of WSL2 on Win10 insider program on 2019. And since I'm done of WSL2, so I'm trying to switch back to the regular version since months ago. Still on Win10: download ...
Hi Kaninch3n
"I checked the [Reset my PC] in System > Restore and media creation installer, first one seem like it could keep my settings and files, but will remove all applications that I have installed(wth) and I'm not sure which version will it install; the other one said it's going to install an lower version of Win11 "
Unfortunately, this will reinstall the same version of Dev.
Really only in the spring of 2022 it was possible to lower the channel - to the Beta version, but now, unfortunately, there is no such possibility.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-insider/isos#clean-installation-with-a-windows-11-iso-not-an-insider-preview-build
No wonder that I have a blink of memory that I could change channel. I really hate how they close it even limited my ability to upgrade it from Win10 dev to Win11 public release.