Let me clarify that a bit.I don't understand when people say the Win 10 upgrade was "forced" on them.
Yes - I did do the "upgrade" from Win 7 to Win 10.
My reasoning was this - Win 7 has been out long enough that I'm probably going to outlive it. OTOH, Win 10 has a good shot at outliving me.
Sort of a lame reason, but, after spending ~ 22 years in the computer/IT field, I know how screwed you can get if you get too far behind in the "upgrade" department.
Anyhow - when I did the Win 10 upgrade, there was no mention of the fact that all Windows updates would now be mandatory and you had no way to turn them off.
I'd just bought a new waterproof MP3 player to take to the pool with me every morning & after messing around with it for a bit, I got the Win 10 to see it when I plugged it in and I transferred some MP3 files to it.
That was the other day.
Later that night, Microsoft pushed down some mandatory new build of Windows 10 & when I got up in the morning, I was greeted with a screen that said 91% finished with updates, don't turn off your PC.
When my PC finished it's update, none of the USB devices worked & I had some .Net 3.5 error message and a bunch of other problems.
I uninstalled the update and went for my morning swim.....
When I returned, my laptop's screen said "91% finished with updates, don't turn off your PC"...grrrrrr.....the stupid thing updated itself all over again.
So - while I had the option to upgrade to Win 10 or not, once done, you lose the ability to turn off updates & Microsoft has a very, very, very, very poor track record of putting out stable and working updates.
Anyhow - my current laptop is six years old & the motherboard has been blinking out every now and then. It's time for a new laptop & it's time to say good bye to Microsoft and Windows.