joe, my question about turning off the internet is prompted by numerous complaints by W7 owners who get lockups from the ceip data uploads back to MS from the 4 updates i quoted in the W8.1 thread. these started in 7 and 8 even before 10, and no matter what steps are taken to block MS from uploading diagnostics and telemetry (most call it spying), the scheduled data uploads continue to initiate and then crash.
maybe users' attempts to stop these KBs are conflicting w/ MS's override actions? i thought the software might reschedule the data transfer to MS if it sees no internet.