Since late last year, even though I've tried every trick in the book to disable all that is win update, at various times when I've tried to shut down for the night, the computer insists on doing some sort of maintenance and states do not turn your computer off with a running counter.
Clearly it's still trying to do updates. I power off my system at the power strip so there is no power to my box when I shut down.
I believe if you shut all your active programs that you had running and browsers and wait some seconds until all activity lights stop, it may be safe to shut the power off instead of using windows shut down button.
I'll be trying this tomorrow night and see how it boots up. Pretty apparent windows monitors your keystrokes and is actively watching the 'start' button and will tell it to run update checks.
Matter of fact in settings under win updates, no matter what you click, if you're online windows calls home instantly and checks your system. This all really pisses my off but I still can't make a total switch to mac's.
People have to be careful with the the update buttons and pages because MS doesn't make it clear what you really can do. Allegedly, win 11 isn't supposed to download unless you okay'd it. I never try and download a new windows the first 6 months in the first place. Or even years.
Stay safe.
