The problem
Windows 10 (not 11, not yet!) has proven to be quite solid and, in general, friendly to have in the observatory—except for its awful tendency to reboot as it sees fit after downloading and installing an upgrade.
Case in point: one night we forgot updates were active again, after postponing them the previous time—and the next morning found the computer on, asking for a password, the session having been suddenly aborted overnight.
What we tried
While there are several tools to tame Windows 10—O&O ShutUp10++ being a very popular one—we found a less drastic way to get the same result: keep Windows downloading and installing upgrades, but stop it from rebooting on its own.
We followed the steps outlined here:
…let's see if this proves to be a good solution!