Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26533925-20151203194947/@comment-24577221-20151206010016

I'm not seeing any way to allow one to control updates.

One can specify that a network is a metered connection; that has to be done on a case-by-case basis, and will fail if a machine manages to connect to another network.

One can "hide" an individual update, after the machine knows about it -- which generally will mean that the machine has already downloaded it, and probably installed it. One might be able to back out that update, and not have it re-installed automatically, if one's machine hasn't been messed up too badly.

One can change the group policy, but not if one is running the Home version.

There's a control to disable downloading updates for drivers, but that doesn't affect other updates.

It's possible to completely stop a machine from even looking for updates, but I don't see a way for the machine to download just the information about the updates so one can choose what to install.

Can you point me towards information about how to control updates properly?

I think we do have some kind of "Paypass" / "Tap & Go" stuff here, for purchases up to C$100 or something like that. I haven't tried it. As you might expect. :-)