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To: Avalon Memories

“Win 10 can remotely turn on a computer to push updates.”

If you turned off internet connection, then shut down, and then unplugged, would that help?


53 posted on 02/10/2020 2:16:25 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: MayflowerMadam
If you turned off internet connection, then shut down, and then unplugged, would that help?

Without the internet connection (or wifi signal) Microsoft cannot talk to your machine and you cannot talk to them. However, some programs will try to re-establish connection and download what it wants the moment you reconnect it.

58 posted on 02/10/2020 2:52:10 PM PST by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: MayflowerMadam; Avalon Memories
“Win 10 can remotely turn on a computer to push updates.”

Normally, your BIOS will have a setting for 'wake on lan'. Turn that off, and they can't do it any more.

85 posted on 02/11/2020 6:29:46 AM PST by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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