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Besides upgrading to Pro, none of those others are ideal. Pausing only postpones the inevitable. I’ve read where MS still pushes updates on people who are using a metered connection. You can’t hide updates you don’t know MS has downloaded. You won’t know it till you go to shut down and it tells you a reboot is required.

I recently started using WUMT thinking it would solve my automatic update woes but was seriously disappointed when basically the same thing happened to me, even with Automatic Updates disabled.

I’m not an expert mind you, but it appears that WUMT relies on the Windows Update Service being enable; and if it’s enabled Microsoft is free to send you anything it wants. The only way to combat this would be to disable the Update Service until you wanted to use WUMT, enable it, then check for and install updates, and disable it again. But that would be a huge drag and Windows might be able to install updates automatically anyway within the short time the US is enabled.

I tried setting the US to manual but when I checked for updates with WUMT it triggered it and then didn’t turn it off again.

As I said, I’m no expert and have only recently started experimenting with WUMT and it’s cousin WUMgr. But it seems to me MS has figured out a foolproof way to make sure they can install whatever they want on a person’s computer. Maybe if you have a system that has Group Policy Editor you can acquire some control; I’ve read that’s the best way. Other than that, I don’t know, unless you disable the US and just forget about any MS updates.