Quote - > Quote - "Might be nice if it told me what it was downloading and installing, but that's not in the windows method of operating."

 

set updates to Notify instead of automatic. just like you did on XP and Vista.

as to the control panel? never use it. I hit start and use the search bar. much faster and finds exactly what I want.

I set updates to off, somehow it keeps turning itself back on.  Which I accept as just typical windows.

You're doing or did something wrong then. Once it's off, it should stay off.

I didn't see if you did this or not but go to run and type in "services.msc". Scroll down to the Windows Update and put it to "Manual". That should hopefully fix it reverting to auto-update in the cp. You could disable it completely but I don't recommend that since if you try windows update it will fail unless you re-enable it in the services.