How do people live with MS Windows ????

Tonight I borrowed ny wife's MS Windows 10 home Laptop to take to a
meeting where I was to give a presentation. I'd logged in to my account
at home and it ll appeared to be working fine - there was the usual odd
pause etcwhich I assumed was the usual updates because I'd not logged in
for a week or so.

At the venue, as soon as I switrched on the laptop it went in the
"updating do not switch off" thingy. 15 minutes later it's still doing
it so my presentation has to be abandonned (end of meeting time).

So how do people put up with this? I'm assuming that in business with
Windoes Pro or whateever, this can be controlled so updates don't
interrupt important events. Can it be controlled on the home edition?

I don't use MS Windows on my desktop so don't have this sort of thing
to deal with normally.

Is there any way of taming MS windows updates?