> I've seen people resorting to disconnecting machines from the internet to prevent this. The Windows Update processes were really a stubborn bunch in W10 - no

> I've seen people resorting to disconnecting machines from the internet to prevent this. The Windows Update processes were really a stubborn bunch in W10 - not sure if anything have changed in W11. These probably were given the highest privileges that made them spawn periodically outside any scheduled tasks settings somehow. Some 3rd-party tools were able to neuter most of them but these were like zombies. Continuously rising up.