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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by whyoh on Monday June 27, 2016 @03:15PM (#11988666)
>You can turn it off via group policy if you have windows enterprise.

No, you can't. You can only set it to a lower level.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by 794CD01 on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:42PM (#11989748)
You can disable utcsvc and prevent it from being re-enabled. Since doing so also disables Windows updates (which is why you shouldn't do it) you can also be sure that future updates will not re-enable it.
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