“We set all our computers to no downloads without asking and then when each person goes home for the day they unhook their computer from the internet. Not much else I know to do. Hopefully that will help some.”
Here is a suggestion for you. A legendary programmer named Steve Gibson has written a utility to prevent unwanted upgrades to Windows 10. It will also erase any Windows 10 install files that have been secretly downloaded to your computer before the unwanted upgrade happens. Gibson used to write commercial utility programs such as the disk utility named SpinRite. Most of the software he writes now is free to the world, as this is.
https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
I’ll look for it. Someone else on FR recommended a program, also free, called GWX. I did install that and removed two W10 files that had piggybacked in one W7 update.
You all are so incredibly helpful to us whose depth of computer knowledge is often challenged. Thanks much. Have a wonderful Memorial Day.
I love SpinRite and everything Steve Gibson makes available.
IIRC, my first version of SpinRite was the original (on a 5.25” floppy lol), back in the ‘80s. I have bought/upgraded to nearly every version, and now own the latest: SpinRite 6. Using it, I have totally and perfectly rescued a number of HDDs that had failed, including all corrupted/lost files. Never found a HDD that couldn’t be saved with SpinRite, the ONLY disk recovery program that I trust.
I have used a lot of his free utilities over the years and loved each of them.
Gibson is fluent in many popular micro, mini, and mainframe computer machine/assembly languages, which makes program code very small, tight, clean, and extremely fast.
I wish he would create an entire OS in Assembly Language, what a dream OS that would be on any machine (and a really monsterous project, LOL).