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I believe all of my win10 laptops suffer from unwanted windows udpate.

I was told that winUp could deactivate MSOffice. You might hit (and get stuck in) “not activated” indefinitely.

WinUp can mess up hardware drivers. The previous touchpad settings are reset or cleared when the Synaptics Touchpad legacy driver is updated. This occurs after the Synaptics driver is downloaded and installed through Windows Updates.

In my $399 Lenovo laptop, this WindowsUpdate “service” seems to be taking lots of CPU. I managed to disable this service and it seemed to help.

• sugg: Now I set the “service” as disabled. I also use a “nobody” local account for service log-on. After a restart it is still disabled as of now on Lenovo, but on some computers like Acer156, it self-activated again.
• sugg (to turn diskspace crunch into an advantage): put in big landgrab files so there’s no space for the downloads?
  • See also disk-hogs to delete #win10 land-grab
  • if I leave too little free space (like 50MB), then I am frequently /interrupted/ and urged to free up storage.
  • if I leave too much free space (like 1000MB) then winUp could kick in.
  • ^^ so I now operate in a band of 200~600MB

— millions of suggestions online
So far, landgrab is the only solution I feel “somewhat” reliable, but it requires a few tools (contig, treeSizeFree).

There are many online tutorials, but so far, they don’t work in my case. I’m tired of trying “one more suggestion”.