[daniel1212]

Good luck, MS. Had updates turned off for over two years now. Even that software that supposedly removes 10 nag notices told me it would not work unless I installed a newer "update" version.

I have not researched it, but i wonder if there is a list of all the IP addresses of MS that one could exclude, as with Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File - MVPS HOSTS file which I have used for years (with some edits). Thank God for such.

[catnipman]

“I have not researched it, but i wonder if there is a list of all the IP addresses of MS that one could exclude, as with Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File - MVPS HOSTS file which I have used for years (with some edits). Thank God for such. “

folks have tried that approach, so you could google it and see how it’s going. Some were claiming MS was bypassing the etc/hosts file with hard-coded IPs, so the only means possible to thwart phoning home was to use router features to block the MS IPs.