You mightn't think it, but the Windows 11 Recovery Environment is genuinely powerful.

I've been running relatively stable for the last few months. Receive a notification this morning that windows needed to restart for an update. Figure it's something that downloaded in the background ...

My system has had frequent random lockups for some time, so my last resort was reinstalling Win2k. Before I installed anything on it, it locked up and has locked up with the same frequency ever since.