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Sorry if this topic has been raised before - I couldn't find it on searching, though.
We have a 3 PAYG dongle and are going to France next month. I know roaming charges are horrendous, but with a son on a round the world trip we do want to access our email while away. When we use the dongle in this country a lot of the bandwidth (& data allowance) seems to be taken up with program updates running in the background. I guess we'll need to keep antivirus signatures up to date, but I'd rather wait for Windows updates etc until we get back.
Question is - how do people go about stopping automatic updates running while roaming? I guess we could change Windows update preferences, but there are other programs that seem to need to update as well.
Any advice very welcome!
We have a 3 PAYG dongle and are going to France next month. I know roaming charges are horrendous, but with a son on a round the world trip we do want to access our email while away. When we use the dongle in this country a lot of the bandwidth (& data allowance) seems to be taken up with program updates running in the background. I guess we'll need to keep antivirus signatures up to date, but I'd rather wait for Windows updates etc until we get back.
Question is - how do people go about stopping automatic updates running while roaming? I guess we could change Windows update preferences, but there are other programs that seem to need to update as well.
Any advice very welcome!