Agreed! The downloads occur automatically and there is nothing you can easily do to stop it. Then it may reboot your computer and put you in a long and usually ill-timed update and reboot sequence that can and DOES freeze up your computer. This is especially true if the computer was a Windows 7/8 upgrade. It took me over two years to finally learn about removing a wireless card slot from inside of my computer to allow an upgrade to stop freezing my computer at 81%. I spent hours online trying to self-diagnosis this ridiculous item and cannot believe it was the cause that windows never could get around.