Hello syphilis,

Or could someone have elected to start the download without realising that they were doing so ?

No, I’m positively informed that no buttons were pressed, inadvertently or otherwise. In any case, if permission had been given, even by accident, wouldn’t there have been a message box to the effect that Windows 10 was being downloaded? There was no message of any kind.

One would think (hope) that MS would not allow for automatic (unrequested) download of such a package...

Just so. :-(

Note: when we contacted our ISP’s technical support, their first question was: “Have you recently upgraded to Windows 10?” So, apparently we are by no means the only ones to experience a Windows-10-related and unexpected leap in data usage.

Cheers,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re^3: OT: Sigh ... Windows 10 by Athanasius
in thread OT: Sigh ... Windows 10 by roboticus

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