| Thanks for remembering, but I have not pursued Win 10. I promptly deleted it from my test system and have no further news to report, beyond what I posted to the web page linked in my previous email to Paul. Sent from Flash's iPad Paul, In terms of what I'm aware of, I think "Anti-Beacon" (possibly free ?), from the Spybot anti-spyware folks, may have been the pioneer in this category. There seem to be a number of other contenders now. I also recall various internet-published articles warning that "taming" Win-10s worst proclivities would would result in fatally compromising the OS, in one way or another. But that could easily have been alarmist spin -- I don't know. Since I have a spare box or two to experiment with, and can clone HDDs against major setbacks, I hope to put it to the test. Supposedly, this includes ways of escaping / controlling the auto-updates you can't otherwise evade, unless you have the Enterprise version. (I am personally more interested in the "LTSB" track that does not make any major changes for a couple years.) Good places to research this creative tampering would likely include Wilders and InfoWorld. Some time ago, our own Flash published a laundry list here of things one needs to shut down in order to regain user control. That was taking a very piecemeal, Do It Yourself approach. These automate-the-process-for-you programs seem more appealing, provided that they work and are essentially non-damaging to Win-10. I'd certainly like to hear his current wisdom on the subject, with the benefit of a couple years more experience behind it. Jordan |