This win10 is another can of worms with its dreaded system updates changing software settings
I'm pretty confident that Windows 10 updates do not cause software settings to change. I manage hundreds of computers across different companies. A software update may break a software but not cause an application setting to change. At least in this occasion this is definitely not the case. I'm sure I could get Brian the developer of Weather-Display to agree.
This issue of Gladstonefamily.net was caused by the site loosing access to other parts of the complex systems that make up CWOP. For some stations the registration has reverted to original registration data, which in many cases was erroneous information that was corrected by the registrant likely shortly after they first joined CWOP.
Since a user upon noticing that their CWOP station suddenly has changed locations without them having made any changes it is reasonable to deduce that something on their end caused it to accur. Hence attributing the fault to Windows 10 Updates is but just a false conclusion. Decimal location changes in software were caused by the user looking to correct an issue where it didn't need fixing.
The thing to do now with Gladstonefamily.net is to just sit tight and be patient till this issue is resolved by the site. The rest of CWOP is working fine.
Windows 10 gets a lot of bad publicity for its forced updates. But I don't see this as a problem. Running a system without security updates is the problem that Microsoft has looked to solving. In the Enterprise these forced updates are not an issue because they can be controlled by system policies that are managed by company servers. For small companies and individuals it only presents a new way of dealing with these updates to ensure that running applications automatically resume operations, and there are ways to handle this, but Windows already does this in many occasions without user intervention. Software and users need to adapt to this new way of system updates for the sake of security. I'm not saying you have to take the bad, but rather software users need to change and integrate to this new way to work in unison with automatic updates. These automatic updates will all be a non-issue for those that learn to set things up properly, it already is a non-issue for many. Yes some of it can depend on software makers to update their software. It already is possible for people that know how to change software to run as a service and not as user mode. Figuring out ways to perpetually block Windows 10 from updating forever is looking at the situation with the wrong perspective, unless you plan to do scheduled updates manually on a consistent and timely basis. Staying with Windows 7 past Jan 14, 2020 is also the wrong approach.