I have tried turning the updates off and it doesn't work. I guess they figured since they offered Windows 11 for free people will just have to take what's thrown their way. The only way around it is to go back to the older O/S's such as Windows 7 or 8.1 then updates can be shut down. Only thing is it offers no more support for the older O/S's. There is another option and that's just get rid of Windows and replace it with a non windows O/S's such as Linux, FreeBSD, Chromium, Illumos, Zorin, AROS and there are plenty of other alternatives other than Windows. I have tried Zorin O/S before and it's decent for something that's free on a CD, but as soon as the CD was removed all the work was lost and had to begin from scratch every time. Now they offer a downloadable version which will copy right to the SSD. I believe they charge for the download version but it's cheap something like $20 to $30.
I'll try it when it's first updated but if I do like it then Windows 11 is gone.