Defer Windows Updates:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 33f541e04d
This is the "Official Way". But it will buy you time to test your disk mages to trace your route causes.
Also in Start Box -> type "services.msc" to view your enabled services -> set "Windows Update" to "Disabled". This will temporarily disable Windows Updates, but it will automatically re-enable intermittently. But this can be an additional backstop to above.
If you pay extra for Windows 10 Professional, Windows Server 2012, or such -- you have more options. Install a Group Policy (like you would do for corporations) to disable windows updates. Learn how to use the Group Policy Editor! Like being your own business/corporation and being your own IT. Even better -- make sure you're as good a skilled admin as the 6-figure paid admins at a corporation. Always manually trigger a Windows Update install during major security advisories and/or schedule Windows Update (and update your image). It can be sobering to watch some security training videos, IT admin videos, etc. Good luck in your training/learning!
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Hope this helps!
You could read howtos / watch some free educational courses in Windows administration, to help you monitor this kind of stuff better, and make sure you take over responsibility of manually installing security updates. Activate a good external hardware firewall to make things harder too (no DMZ stuff). If you are fearful you may slack and fall weeks/months behind your security updates, keep important data and important web browsing (online banking etc) on a different protected computer if possible. Then falling a week behind in updates will usually be okay as long as there's no in-progress easy 0day exploits. But... stay on the ball!
After you do this, it is useful to learn how to open the engine hood of Windows and tinker with the engine via "Windows Administrative Tools" -> "Event Viewer" so you can study automatically installed software to better trace your driver culprit.