Mike, thank you for that valuable information.
Could you be kind enough to cite your references to provide support for your assertions?
Thanks in advance. Dad Mac

Dad Mac, I give you an example: I do online banking and my back requires GPS enabled for me to properly log in.
I disabled it, just to see if that will stop me from logging in, IT DID NOT, the bank can still read my GPS on the laptop, regardless of the switch being in the off position.

Dad Mac, If you have ever read EULA from MSFT, you would know that they own the OS and can modify it at any time and reset to the default value all of the privacy issues at any time.
They need not tell you anything about it (how the system operates), even if you ask for it in court of law. They always call upon the trade secret as defense and if you do not like how the OS works, you have an option to uninstall it and load a Linux OS.

Julie, Try disabling it in the machines BIOS settings, if you can still login it is more likely sufficient machine authentication is stored in a cookie somewhere than disabled hardware is still being accessed with impunity or the bank is using geo-location from your public IP number rather than GPS receiver output.
TK

Dad Mac, onedrive, onenote for instance will silently download new versions and execute the new updates with no user interface interaction, they are registered by the installation sub-systems and are not done secretly but done to be unobtrusive... on my systems they are seen because their installation paths includes version/build numbers and so will trigger an outgoing connection firewall alert that will need to be allowed or blocked. You can uninstall all those extra programs and not have silent downloaded new versions... but in doing so you'll also lose functionality.
TK

Julie,
I never knew some laptops had GPSs. I thought that location information came from the IP address. My actual GPS does not even work inside my house because it is shielded from the satellites.

Jilani, what is a paid feature?
TK

TK, did you not go to the program homepage or do you need spoon fed everything??

TK, it also says windows ver. 7-8 further down. Their site states that it works from 7 on...

Mario, Yet on this GOTD page it says:
System Requirements: Windows 11
so the confusion is understandable

ralph, at the time of my original posting I did not go to softorbits website but asked here based upon the text they supplied for this giveaway which may or may not be the same build as distributed via their website, we cannot know. So the answer appears to be the System Requirements information is incorrect and it should include all versions of windows from 7 to 11 inclusive which might be information of value to other visitors to todays giveaway. And to add further unpublished information the program is also a 32bit program so will run under both 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 to 10 and of course 64bit Windows 11. And finally no I do not need [to be] spoon fed everything :-)
TK

ralph, the rating of comments is broken. you had -6 and i gave it yes and instead of -5 it gave you -7

anna, comment usefulness ratings are not broken, while you were reading it started at -6 but 2 other people marked the comment No taking it to -8 which you did not see until you voted Yes which read the database and added your vote and updated your page with the real current vote of -7... It's now -8 at the time of me writing this but may be changing as I type so I won't know unless I vote or refresh the page. I hope you don't mind being spoon fed how things really work *grins*
TK

TK, Are you people real?

AJ, you first?
TK

ralph, No need to be snarky. It was written "From the description above"
"System Requirements:
Windows 11"
It does not state
"System Requirements:
Windows 11/10/8.1/7" which other times it does if compatible. If we are to be enticed to try a software, most folks go by "System Requirements" first and foremost.

AJ,
Well it took about 10 ties to convince the captcha I was real.