Mayayana wrote:

| You most definitely can stop the Microsoft updates. For years.
|
It might be tricky to be sure. You don't control
the system on Win10 the way you could with
earlier versions. And even earlier versions were
not trustworthy.

Hi Mayayana,

You know me, over the years, to always speak facts.

Hence, I emphatically state you /can/ forestall the Windows update, at
least from 2015 to 2018, as I did, but unfortunately I changed so many
things, I don't know specifically what prevented Microsoft from updating
off of Windows 10 Pro Version 1511 OS Build 10586.1106 when MS finally
bricked my OS in January of this year.

I realize that only provides "hope" but not the answer of "how".

So Windows Update was bypassing Windows Update.

Agreed that it's getting harder to control your own software.