Audacity, get_iplayer & Windows 10

Nick Payne nick.payne at internode.on.net
Wed Nov 18 12:54:40 PST 2015


On 18/11/2015 9:48 PM, CJB wrote:
> OK - that's all good to know. But ... do I really need to upgrade to
> Win 10 anyway? Its the aggressive forcing of the issue that riles me.
> My little Acer notebook hasn't the capacity for a full blown Windows.
> I only have Win 7 Starter anyway. And my 250GB hard drive is full of
> video and audio files. There's no room for more bloat from MS.
>
> But the killer is the enforced updates. How dare MS dictate my
> lifestyle. Life is too  short. I only have a Three mobile dongle with
> a contract for 5GB a month. So updates I do at MacD's on free wifi and
> in my own time. I don't need MS stealing my small allowance.

You just define the connection as metered and updates won't 
automatically download when you're using it: 
http://lifehacker.com/enable-metered-connection-to-delay-windows-10-updates-1723316525.



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