I’ve done all that on my 4yo 32bit ASUS notebook and it still runs something in the background, offline online don’t matter. Tried Task Manager to see what was running, couldn’t find anything except IE pages using more and more memory just sitting there. Remote access disabled; shut off updates, still runs on. Load a page and it says, long script; hit stop script, says, reload page; ad nauseum.
The only website that works no issues is Free Republic !!! lol
Time to consider Linux Mint????