Looks like I was wrong. Trying it on a spare laptop tonite. I’ll let you know if it blows up.
Tell you what I found out I was wrong about. Windows 10 now seems to be able to bypass all of the tweaks I made to stop it from updating/upgrading.
I made the following tweaks that now don't work:
1. Winaero Tweaker: It has an option for disabling Windows 10 updates. It now no longer performs that function even though I have it selected.
2. Regedit: I added a registry value called "NoAutoUpdate" and changed the setting from "0" to "1." That's supposed to also stop Windows 10 from updating/upgrading. I'm finding out that somehow Microsoft has been changing the value back to "0" thereby leaving the O/S open to upgrading.
3. Disable Automatic Updates in Group Policy Editor: The Automatic Update can be set to "Disabled," yet, MicroThief bypasses that as well.
I've booted up my Windows 10 hard drive three times now in the past few weeks only to get a message telling me that my operating system will be upgraded in 30 minutes. What I find frustrating is that I'll check each of those items above to ensure they are set properly and during the use of the O/S the registry entry gets changed and the other two options don't stop MicroThief.
So I'm going to start utilizing my Linux distro more. I can use it for many things except graphics work. I'll have to keep using Windows 7 for that. But my printer doesn't load and I can't find Linux drivers for it (Epson WF-2540).