Don't drop your guard, it's not enough. I set Win Update to automatic updates notification and manual choice and installation, and it already happened to me many times that preparing the updates list MS sneakily and unauthorisedly unhid Win 10 updowngrade-related updates I previously had hidden.
The first time I didn't notice it, and not only I had to uninstall those updates, but i also had to restore some system files that darn junk had corrupted and that either slowed down some updates or worse it even prevented some to ever getting completed, and the automatic tools MS provides to fix Win Update weren't able to fix. I was even lucky, because the right ssolution in my case was the fifth of thirteen MS suggests, but I had already tried two automatic ones, and posponed to try the SURT tools as MS site was so busy to fail the download many times, before actually finding the most complete MS list, and I skipped single manual dowload and install as it was too long, not sure and so not worth the time of the effort, while the notorious restart solution had obviously happened necessarily many times, so I actually solved the problem with just three attempts:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2509997

BTW, the folloing list http://www.ghacks.net/2015/04/17/how-to-remove-windows-10-upgrade-updates-in-windows-7-and-8/ is the one I used to hid unwanted Win 10 related updates, and they recently updated it after it was found that MS is getting fishier with another fishy update, they also added some others quite suspect, but the most dangerous should be the KB3150513:
http://winaero.com/blog/beware-kb3150513-will-install-windows-10-for-you-again/

I thought something was weird. I left my PC on sleep mode a while back and woke up and it had upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I was livid. But it takes about 5 minutes to downgrade back. Gonna get rid of this asap.

revert fast if you want to get your 7 back, Win10 will remove the files for Win7 after a couple of weeks so you can't just downgrade and you'll need a fresh install of your original OS.

I don't mind installing windows 10 but I don't want to update to windows 10 because of the major issues in the update process.
I did find a nice software to prevent the update after two computers inn my household got the force update so I should be good though.

Also I'm kinda conflicted on the issue as a student in web development, as force update to windows 10 should prevent people from using older versions of IE, which is pretty much the browser equivalent of bone cancer to develop for.

#2edgy4u!

Can you not get older versions of IE to run through windows 10 compatibility mode?

Hmmmm after taking a read of http://superuser.com/questions/1019776/how-to-run-internet-explorer-7-on-windows-10

Browser sandbox sounds like a good option for trying things out, outside of running a virtual machine... but yeah so much extra effort for a basic enough requirement of your PC hardware, sad times.

I just now had a fight with Windows 10 forced updates and I'm still seething. I see that Nvidia has updates so I download and install them. That was last night. I turn my PC on today, start up my browser, and none of the pages will connect. They try but it's like I'm on dial-up.

I'm cursing my ISP but then I think to check updates and there it is: W10 is downloading the Nvidia update I've already installed. Unlike a normal download, it's also eating ALL of my bandwidth. No way to stop the download, either. After some digging, it seems you can at least stop device drivers from downloading, though they sure as hell don't make it easy by putting that setting where you'd expect.

Arrogant bastards.

Seriously, why the HELL is this happening while I'm trying to use my PC? I logged on for a reason and could not perform that reason. That's an OS failure.

http://www.howtogeek.com/226722/how-when-and-why-to-set-a-connection-as-metered-on-windows-10/

I've seen that before but it only seems to be fore wireless networks.

Wow. Okay... one more reason to stick to earlier Windows'es 

Can you just delete the GWX folder, or do you have to jump through some hoops?