There's a way to get around that in a Win 10 machine; tell it you're on a metered Internet connection. It won't update until you tell it to. It's in a setting somewhere.
That said, I have a Dell Inspiron Mini that won't run much beyond Win XP without severely bogging down. It is a small form factor and perfect for the field and for logging. I carry it with me when I go afield and have pretty much everything I need, absent the internet, which I'm actually going afield to get away from. If you have a little machine that you can send to Coventry, you run no risk of compromise of the operating system; as long as the software runs on it. I have quick boots and get my work done. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 3:16 PM Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > On 6/20/2019 11:17 AM, EricJ wrote: > > Computers with serial ports running Windows XP/7 are approaching boat > > anchor status > > Not quite -- I paid extra for a couple of off-lease Win 7 machines so > that I wouldn't be subject to Win 10's forced automatic updates. I like > updates, but on MY schedule. The last thing I want is a forced update in > the middle of a contest. > > 73, Jim K9YC > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to r...@wc3t.us > -- 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
