I am assuming you are referring to KB5054156 Feature Update. Is that correct?
That update was an enablement package which applied in less than 15 seconds for me. If it has already applied and awaiting a restart, I don't think you can stop it safely. However you can uninstall it afterwards.
To be safe, I would restart and let it complete and then uninstall it..
To uninstall Windows 11 25H2, open
Settings > Windows Update > Update history, click “Uninstall updates,” and click “Uninstall” for the “Feature Update to Windows 25H2 via Enablement Packages” update.
I looked back at your thread about partitions and saw where you restored a Macrium image from 2023. Did you not have a more recent image? At some point you would have had to go from 23h2 to 24h2. Otherwise you would not have been offered the enablement package. Did you manually upgrade from 23h2 to 24h2 since last week?
So I am very confused exactly what situation your system AND the partitions are in now. Something is very wrong if it take you to 8 minutes to boot from an ssd. I do notice something strange when looking at the screenshot you gave of your partitions.
Somehow the recovery partition from disk 0 has been duplicated on disk 1 (has exact same size). Was disk 1 an old system drive that you cloned at some point?
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You could have solved the issue with your data drive letter being wrong by using the registry to manipulate your drive letters.. See my screenshot.
If D was unassignable in disk management, SOMETHING was assigned to D in the registry. You could have found what was assigned to D and deleted it. Thus leaving D available to use in disk management for your data partition OR you could have done the same thing using the registry.
You can assign a disk drive letter by modifying the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MOUNTEDDEVICES. To do this, open the Registry Editor, find the binary value for your drive (e.g., \DosDevices\E:), and rename it to the desired letter followed by a colon (e.g., \DosDevices\D:). After saving, you must sign out and back in, or restart your computer, for the change to take effect.
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Then you still have to address the extra long boot time and Global.wsw Searching process. IMO it's malware and could very well attribute to the long boot time.. Here;s what copilot says about it's history.
- Global.sw/wsw is not a standard Windows process.
- In Windows ME, it was tied to System Restore.
- In Windows 10/11, it may be suspicious or third‑party, and should be investigated with tools like Process Explorer and antivirus scans.
- Do not ignore it if it causes lag or high resource usage — treat it as potentially unwanted software.
With all these issues at once, had it been me, the recovery partition on the secondary drive would have been deleted, then the drive disconnected and a clean install incoming on the primary drive. If you restored a 2 year old image and that mystery process was there then, you've had it a long time.
