All around, for everything, I cannot recommend the Chris Titus (and friends) WinUtil enough:

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

It's a suite of powershell scripts and tweaks that are open source for inspection frontended by a nifty powershell multi tabbed TUI (Text User Interface) widget.

There's a tab for upgrades and installs of common dev / tech / power user tools; a tab for tweaks; a tab for windows update options; a tab for building install disks / VM's (eg: minimal for gaming or for hosting windows applications in Qubes, etc).

Update Tab can select all updates / only critical / none ever / advise and let you choose.

To use, you do need to 'trust' (or inspect the work of and download source and self apply) a pool of windows tech nerds - you literally open a powershell admin window and pipe raw boot script over the internet and give it control to bring up the TUI.

This could be malware (but isn't, last I checked) - same risk with all such tools d/loaded from internet of course.

See Usage on github page - various writeups and youtube tutorials.

It'll rip the AI addons, Copilot, and Snapshot and Spy stuff right out of Windows 10 / 11.

Easy to use and follow.