Solved I Hate MS Updates!!

Yes I would say it's healthy but not standard or exactly ideal. I see you have no recovery partition which is normally created following C. Did you delete it intentionally?

Other than that, the only thing I see that might cause a problem at some point with major feature updates is the size of your EFI partition. We have seen such updates fail because the EFI partition was too small. Along with major updates, secure boot certificate updates write to the EFI partition as do modern firmware updates.

I used an old offline Minitool boot disk and enlarged my EFI to 500MB on all my machines. I wish now I had gone even larger on this Dell machine since I get so many UEFI bios updates. Just keep that in mind if your future updates fail. I just chose to be proactive and extend my EFIs before I experienced a problem so I would have plenty of wiggle room..

I haven't done one in a while but I read where a clean install of 11 now builds the EFI partition at 260MB.

Minimum size 200 and 300 MB:

"The EFI system partition must meet the following minimum size requirements for the storage device type:

512 native / 512e byte sector size: minimum 200 MB
4K native sector size: minimum 300 MB"

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This is where MiniTool Partition Wizard can come in real handy. Of course there are likely a dozen other ways to deal with it. Easy BCD can fix it too as it will allow you to direct and prioritize which drives your system should boot to and let you delete any other undesirable boot straps that may be lurking on a drive. Of course, you'll want to get that wasted space back and that's why I recommend using MiniTool.

How come you chose to use dynamic and logical drives?

There are dozens of ways to disable Windows Updates, till you feel up to it, like:

1. Use DNS to block download domains, pretty straightforward.
2. Block svchost.exe via TCP port 80/443, DNS will still work, but MS store apps updates will be blocked as well.
3. Create a nonexistent symlink, but it will probably block MS store updates as well! 11 will get confused and crumble.
Removing the folder or restrictions will make Windows Happy again.

TairikuOkami said:

There are dozens of ways to disable Windows Updates, till you feel up to it, like:

1. Use DNS to block download domains, pretty straightforward.
2. Block svchost.exe via TCP port 80/443, DNS will still work, but MS store apps updates will be blocked as well.
3. Create a nonexistent symlink, but it will probably block MS store updates as well! 11 will get confused and crumble.

Code:

rd "%WINDIR%\SoftwareDistribution\Download" /s /q
mklink /d "%WINDIR%\SoftwareDistribution\Download" "X:\Download"

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Not to say that I haven't done it myself, but... In so doing when the day comes to do updates things can get real interesting. Often times you'll be going to the catalog page looking for stand alones.

zbook said:

How come you chose to use dynamic and logical drives?

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I can tell you why my wife uses them. Her data tends to stay on her drive more without weird stuff happening.

Scannerman said:

In so doing when the day comes to do updates things can get real interesting.

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That is the reason I do not like using 3rd party apps, which make it permanent, just like removing Defender.
I was actually banned for this on several discord channels, because I am not a native English speaker, my bad.
The mod thought, that I am suggesting to disable WU and as the result r/TechSupport banned me for eternity.

TairikuOkami said:

That is the reason I do not like using 3rd party apps, which make it permanent, just like removing Defender.
I was actually banned for this on several discord channels, because I am not a native English speaker, my bad.
The mod thought, that I am suggesting to disable WU and as the result r/TechSupport banned me for eternity.

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TBH This forum is very lenient and I appreciate that. I think the authorities here know precisely where to draw the line. (I've bumped up against it a couple of times and they were right.) For me, Windows is a love/hate relationship. I'll gripe and complain like there's no tomorrow but I'll be back. lol To use the words of our beloved Marie SWE "all operating systems suck." lol

Scannerman said:

Of course, you'll want to get that wasted space back

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Not if it were me. For 100MB, IMO it's not worth the effort.

glasskuter said:

Not if it were me. For 100MB, IMO it's not worth the effort.

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Yeah, TBH I get lazy too. Then one day I'll get ambitious and move all the data to another drive and reformat.

glasskuter said:

Not if it were me. For 100MB, IMO it's not worth the effort.

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i remember the days when a 100MB was an enormous amount of space
100MB is 72 3.5" 1.4 MB floppy disks (if they all worked)

best of luck Steve ..