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Very true, my laptop is also an old HP with HDD, and Windows 10 sucks honestly. I won't complain performance wise, but these updates oof. Windows gets wild if you disable updates. I did it till Feb, at least till where it allowed. Next time I booted the machine it automatically started updating. I did hard reboots, but nothing helped it won't budge till the updates finish. 

I have a weird network problem too. It's so that first I boot my PC, I won't be able to access the internet no matter what I try. I always have to reboot once after first boot, and then the network works just fine, not sure what problem is this, I do see some MS forum threads relating to the same topic, but this issue is still hard to reproduce as it doesn't affect everyone, and there isn't a fix yet.

You can hold updates for only up to 7 days I think. If you don't hold those to another 7th day on the 6th day Windows automatically do all updates. I think Microsoft trying to discourage people from trying to stop upgraded by that. It's real pain though. But I think Windows 10 shut down faster than Windows 7. xD At least that's something. Also, I think web browsers working better.