Microsoft uses not proper methods to enforce the Win10 upgrade.
If you "click away" the upgrade window, then it will be done as if you hit the "ok" button.

Since felt 20 years the meaning of the white cross with red background in the top right window corner is,
to kill / destroy a window and by this canceling the further operation which is bound to it.
Well doing so is now rated as "ok" so that Microsoft can see further progress quicker in terms of Windows upgrades.

http://www.ingenieur.de/Themen/Software … Windows-10
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/ … 21849.html

I would hope, that there are more mature user to immediately change back by using the restore function of their backup ...

Actions like this are really "poor" and bad manner. This is not building up trust.

BTW .. with a desktop system it helps only to activate the "important" (security) updates, and deactivate the other ones.
Since then I do not get upgrade offers anymore.

Afterwards its easy to say But not everybody in the recording business is also a good PC admin.

In regards to proposal #1: Sorry but I have to disagree, bad idea. There are enough people who still have issues with windows 10, makes no sense to play early adopter. If it worked for you personally, congrads, but this ONE scenario is not the basement for a recommendation on wider scale or for everybody.

In regards to proposal #2: yes, but as I wrote all those hacks are not required, if you limit the update scope simply to more important / security patches. At least up to now.

Another thing is, that with Windows 10 many things changed:
- Privacy issues / new license which allows Microsoft too much in terms of data usage from you
- Secure Boot and TPM is now tight in the system and can not be deactivated anymore since Win8
  now it only requires TPM modules in the CPU or per default on mainboards, and then wait until
  external companies play admin on your PC.
- New patch model, not the nicest one if you are not enterprise customer
- Some beloved tools / functionalities are missing
- Tools to optimize the system do not work as accurate anymore do not measure at µs level anymore since Win8
- Administration is now a messy unstructured mixture of old style and new style tablet optimized GUI Windows
- Audio Subsystem optimizations are not reported as good from people using it compared to the hype on gearsluts
- and it is still limited to WASAPI .. nice start you may argue .. but for recording business its still a little nothing

Windows 10 is IMHO still not in the "better shape" as Windows 7 and still has its rough edges

So there are more things too look at, than simply becoming early adoptor to simply "get it done".
Now you have Win10 and have to live with it and all implications.
There might be some good, but I see too many which are really bad.

Here is what I use to stop this:

A great tiny app that does MS's recommended Registry/GP edits to stop W10 from auto-upgrading.  This WILL  NOT prevent the GWX updates from downloading or installing, but WILL PREVENT GWX from installing W10 on your system!  "Never 10" is much more streamlined (and smaller!) than the needlessly complicated GWX-Control Panel that I also used:

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm

A measly 83K!!!!

As you were... 

And if all these crooked strategies are not enough for MS, they'll sump your bandwidth:

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-r … ?t=2530363

Could be an Akamai problem too, of course.