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I mean, if it was accidental then... Just turn it off and boot back into Linux? You realise you can just turn it off while it's downloading updates, right? Heck, you can even pause updates long term if you want! 😱 Crazy!
As someone who has turned windows off while it's updating, don't do it. You might be lucky enough to only have some files deleted
I did that once, the registry stopped working. Turns out it can't boot without that
I never said to do it while it's in the middle of changing stuff, but if you just booted you can turn it off and nothing will happen because worst case it will just be downloading without installing, as someone else mentioned, once updates are installed you can even turn off without applying updates if you want and you can also tell it to only download and not install unless you tell it to or not download at all.
If you're going that way, Windows is not going to suddenly start updating when you simply boot it. You have to willingly click "Update and Shutdown/Restart" instead of "Shutdown/Restart", assuming your computer even finished downloading the update.
I have a Windows 10 partition on a second machine. I have disabled automatic updates in the options and I never click "Update at restart" or anything. Yet, whenever I need to boot into Windows it decides to automatically start updating itself.
I guess that I use it infrequently so there are always updates available, but it shouldn't force them on me when I've specifically disabled them.
Also, when you choose either of the update or restart/shutdown options, it actually tries to restart, (for me) always boots back into linux because that's my default. When I'd eventually boot back into Windows, it just continues installing the update I'd long forgotten about.
Pretty happy to be rid of that mess entirely now.