I really dont understand Microsoft these days:
Pushy for people to 10 even when people go through measures to avoid it, and then now to hear that they are even pushing updates that are unwanted once your onto 10 which break systems. WOW.
Patio suggested that he has set his updates to notify vs auto for his system(s). I am going to do this for all my systems now. It might be the fix to your problem here too. My situation is that systems on 7, Microsoft is trying to force to 10 and I dont want 10. I have one computer that I took the free Windows 10 upgrade on from 7. And that system is in my closet for someday when I need 10 for some reason I will have a system on 10 and not miss out of the free upgrade. But other systems I want to remain on 7. Some of which clearly do not support 10 due to age of a single-core laptop for example where the Intel Chipset was lucky enough to have Windows 7 driver for integrated video, but of which there is no Windows 10 driver for the GPU so it fails to upgrade to 10. Others I know have have their computers turn into a brick when taking free upgrade and then the system is stuck in a boot loop because there was a malfunction with a driver or something else causing a crash condition boot loop etc.
I ended up cloning the drive in my one highly configured Windows 7 system so that if Microsoft somehow tries again to forcefully upgrade me to 10, i should be able to clone the cloned drive back to the master drive. I have the drive that is cloned inside the tower disconnected from power and comm. So that its not able to get infected as well as doesnt wear on the drive idling when the system is running.
Makes me wonder what kind of a monster Microsoft is turning into and what the end game is for everyone they are forcing to 10. Also saw a comment elsewhere online where someone stated that if they are so pushy for people to be on Windows 10, why not make the upgrade from 7, 8, 8.1 to 10 available forever vs a deadline. Of course new builds etc would need to buy the OS, but if they really want to KILL OFF 7, 8, and 8.1 make the upgrade available forever. Eventually people might take up the upgrade if there are no pressure tactics, and once the true intent of getting everyone to 10 is brought to light to be maybe not such a bad thing where as the push to 10 seems like there may be something hidden to this free upgrade model since they are so pushy for people to be onto 10 and they will be making money somehow on the people taking the free upgrades, just not sure how yet!