Windows updates

[king1]

Thanks for that. Our connection is a monthly plan on a wireless modem - 40gb for $45 which is usually enough but sometimes only just. I can buy more, but avoid that unless I need it, and get grumpy at the idea of Microsoft causing the need. Same on the phones. Huge updates are data-waste, especially when they are so often just fixing things that should have been right first time. But I do want to stay safe. At the moment on the desktop that wants to update Win10 I've got 2gb left for 3 days. It sounds like I should let the update go ahead and just reduce usage until it renews.

I've seen where the tick box is in the settings but I prefer to keep it unticked so that I can keep control. I'll let the update go manually this time.

Thanks also for the info on Win11. I should probably just get on with deciding what direction to take with the next computer.

all good, it's just a fact of life these days though about the size of the updates, luckily the big ones are only twice a year...

End of support for win10 is October 2025 so plenty of time still, probably another 6 months after that you'd get away with... There are 'hacks' to bypass some of the hardware requirements but you need to know what your doing and there is no guarantee they won't cause issues down the track, so probably not worth mentioning...