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Subject: Re: "Tether"?? What is it and how might I achieve it??
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:18:20 +0100
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On 2025-02-13 17:31, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> When do MicroSoft release their 'normal' updates?? First Tuesday of the
>> month?? Second?? Third??
> 
>    Second Tuesday US time. For you that would be the second Wednesday.
> I'm in The Netherlands and do my updates on the second Wednesday, which
> was yesterday (day before yesterday by the time you wake up! :-)).
> 
>    BTW, with regard to your data-limit problems: You can easily delay
> updates for upto 4 weeks:
> 
>    Disconnect from the network (so Windows Update can't check for
> updates). Settings -> Windows Update -> Pause updates -> Extend for
> X weeks. And connect again to the network. Windows Update has a '[Resume
> updates]' button to resume at any time, but be warned, when you click
> that button, it'll do a check for updates right away.

Better to define the connection as metered. Windows will then not do 
automatic updates.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.