Microsoft still tries to add back Edge as the default browser after every patch. They always reset your setting silently (how is this shit even legal?)
Also IMHO nowadays they are pushing updates much more often and those constant updates slow down the computer to a crawl - they do this because they try to force you to upgrade. Seriously the amount of updates nowadays is incredible - and as an user you simply cannot disable windows update due to multiple dark patterns (e.g. windows ignoring the settings in the windows update menu... + you you cannot disable the service since there is another service that turns it on). Windows keeps downloading patches when you do something else - every few days the computet becomes unusable and requires a restart.
To add insult to in injury: windows 11 requires computers with this new bios, so even if you gave up and wanted to pay microsoft their extortion money... you cant, since the new Windows wont work on your older computer.
Seriously due to updates every few days random services take 10% of processor time, or updates eat all internet bandwith.. even when every windows update is turned off.
The only solution is to use hard to audit programs from the internet that can disable updates completly. [Downloading such things is nor very safe... so I dont do it]
Yes I scanned the computer for trojans - its the updates that make it slow.
My old machine used to play doom and browse websites randomly slows down every few days because they use a dark pattern of patches that try to convince you to throw away a perfectly fine computer and buy windows 11. Which wont even work.
So I wonder what is a safe way to disable windows updates? It makes the computer behave normally (e.g .if it has no connection for 3 weeks of behaves ok for 3 weeks. Connect to inetenet - updates...)