Herefore, I'm going to copy-and-paste (yes my favorite thing to do) this same reply in any other forums where other immature cry-baby users get their panties all bunched up over a user posting the same question in other forums.
After all, every user here has other forum accounts as I do, which is how you found my other postings on other forums. So what is the difference then if we are all the same? The last time I checked, being a member on a forum wasn't a marriage til' death do us part. And it is not sacrilege to post the same question in other forums.
From what I have learned in the past about using forums is that it is much more advantageous to post in multiple forums than just 1 forum to get many opinions from users. I want to see who says go this way or that to gauge the knowledge of users, as some don't know what the hell they are talking about, but some do, and some are just jerks that b!tch and moan.
So I have to mass post my question, gather all the information and then make my own gut-decision on what sounds best from whom sounds the smartest. I'm seeking the best advice possible which could come from ANY user, Any forum or Any source.
But how do I know that I picked the best forum with just 1 posting on just 1 forum? I don't, that's an impossibility. I know my approach is far more effective and timely rather than your approach of limiting my feedback and data results on just 1 forum. It's just not smart to limit yourself to just 1 forum.
Why would anyone want to wait several days or weeks if no one responds back or gives bad advice. Then I would have wasted all that critical time waiting on just 1 forum. I want to get the problem fixed yesterday, not a month from now waiting on few replies from only 1 thread. I have some threads that went cold with few replies, some with bad advice, some completely dead, so why would I wait weeks for that garbage? Doesn't that make tremendous sense?
And don't give me the argument of "duplicating efforts" if there was any advice overlap then I would say so in the forum to prevent the repetition because I don't want to waste the time either to read the extra words just like you don't when writing them.
Regardless, back to the original Win 7 problem at hand, it still exists, I get all kinds of conflicting advice. Some users say that it is 100% true that you can NOT turn off Windows automatic updates completely while others say that you CAN completely turn them off. From my own observations I believe you can NOT because I have been through every policy, directory and subdirectory path, etc.
So now I'm trying to figure out the best, smallest-sized platform approach to run with "absolute zero updates" and now I'm exploring an OSX install onto Tiny 7 or Windows 7 and run the Think or Swim platform (which is the whole point of this exercise) from either High Sierra or Mojave generations.
This is taking longer time and research than I expected, I don't have the extra time to dedicate to finding the solution myself inbetween medical care, and I'm about to commission a repair shop to do these installs, even though I thought I would be fully capable of doing this myself.
Meanwhile, I hope I made my position clear that my 10+ year technique of mass posting the same question on multiple forums will not be abandoned because others don't like my more-effective method for retrieving forum advice. But to each-their-own I guess.
I still welcome good, sound, competent advice on how to remedy this problem. But if your next post is to chastise my unwavering approach in seeking tech advice then just keep it to yourself. I'm trying to keep this thread civil and professional. Thank you for reading.
