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The best advice I've read today (elsewhere) was: just stick with Windows 7 and deal with Windows 10 when you have to buy a new computer. In the meantime I'm avoiding 10-specific updates, though not necessarily all WU altogether i.e. some of the worries about W7 "phoning home" I think are an over-reaction.
Perhaps "persistence" was a little bit harsh, but it is irritating that one has to be on constant guard for every update in case it has one of the Windows 10 naggers.
I do a manual check for updates every morning just after I start the computer, mainly to get the latest MSE updates. If there is just one update for Windows 7 I usually check it out, but that does not always tell you what it is actually for, so I install it & hope for the best. When there are a heap of updates I don't always check each one.
I finished re-installing the 12/08/15 updates on my system. No GWX folders/files have shown up and the registry is also clear of any GWX entries, except for the one with no value set that shows up after every cold boot. I'm still a bit puzzled as to where that one's coming from. The stuff dated 04/04 and 03/24 had to have arrived prior to the 12/08 updates. I did let the first 3 W10 prep. updates install before I became aware of them, so that's likely when the GWX stuff go loaded. Thanks to everyone for all of the information on GWX.
No Thelma I shall stay till the walls fall in I am just keeping my options open re Ubuntu / Linux.
What I said about the blaise' comments was in my mind typical of those who throw caution to the wind in this day and age of all forms of hacking - that particular individual also rather offended me by telling me I am worrying about nothing by comparing me to the billions of other individuals on this planet - which of course I am not I am my own individual person and will not follow like the other lemmings over the precipice because I am being bombarded by those who say that this other OS is so much better. It may be better and faster but it may also be the beginning of the end of computing as we know and have come to enjoy it over the years.
What disappoints me most of all is that Microsoft have in a large part - taken away my right of freedom of choice and after spending a great deal of money over the years on their products. It is all about greed and to be honest probably has been for a very long time even with XP 7 8 etc etc and to me it is boardering on the unethical.