I have an Acer running Win 7 Starter. It only does updates when I allow it to. However the hard drive is packing up but luckily I've managed to back up all the files. Next is to replace the HDD with a SSD. Meanwhile I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop to tide me over, but this came with Win 10 Home. And I got well bitten with the automatic updates which soaked up my entire capped data allowance one evening without warning nor authorisation by me. I mean who owns my new laptop - well I paid for it but I do not control what happens to it. Damn Microsoft. Anyway there are ways round these draconian and intrusive issues. The simplest is to create a small USB bootable drive with something like Linux Puppy which has its own browser. If the laptop is then booted with this you still have access to the Internet but Windows does not have access to your computer. More later.