There are some that claim Windows Update does not obey the metered connection setting.
Rather than go over it all, read this prior post.
https://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/threads/504650/windows-10-updates
I am on a metered/limited data broadband with satellite modem service since there is no option for me for dsl or cable here in a remote mountain top in VA. For the last two or three months, even though it rolls over to new full coverage of 10GB per month during the 8AM to 2AM daily allowance and 50GB per month from 2AM to 8AM, I can't find whatever programs are running during the daytime allowance period that seem to be downloading and updating themselves since I get no warnings or windows to let me know so I can stop them and manually do this or schedule them for in the middle of the night instead. I have been going through my entire month's allowance for the last two months within the first four or five days of the month and then I am throttled back for the rest of the month to a snail's pace unless I purchase more 'tokens' which are expensive for a small amount given.
I've uninstalled all of the game type apps, and gone into task mgr to see what programs are still running and other than three instances of regsvr32,exe that seem to be running, I don't know what they go to in order to disable them, and startup tab doesn't show anything out of the ordinary.
I don't seem to be given any option to uninstall 90% of the apps that preinstalled with this Gateway, but they never seemed to be an issue before (I've had the computer for nearly two years already) so I don't think they are the culprit.
How can I find out what is eating up all my allowanced bandwidth so quickly in a matter of days? I use my wifi connection sparingly because of the metered issue and have actually tweaked that advanced option, but since the majority of the time I connect directly via LAN, it seems to have had no effect and have gone through 75% in just two days already.
I don't keep any browser open like I used to and Outlook is closed as well so I'm clueless and it's not been an issue before to keep the computer on 24/7 until the first of June and now July already. I sit on the 'desktop' until I need to get on the net or check my email now and I'm getting really ticked off with this,
I'm completely stymied trying to find out what I can do next to track down what's going on. I suspected in June that it was large Windows 10 updates, but I've had W10 ever since it was first offered as a download from MSoft and never had a problem before.
Help.......if you can. Thanks.

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