Windows 10: Microsoft hijacking my computer with UpdateOrchestrator

This is completely unacceptable. Microsoft should compensate for wasted electricity. Not only the computer is running but the screens are forced to stay on too which normally turn off after 30 minutes of inactivity. I have wasted 24+ hours on this nonsense. Some of the questions online about the SAME problem with the SAME solutions date back to 2015. I regret paying for this product.

Poweshell reveals the culprits:
Get-ScheduledTask where {$_.settings.waketorun}

UpdateOrchestrator\ Backup Scan
and
UpdateOrchestrator\ Universal Orchestrator Start

fyi Command Prompt does not reveal any information through "powercfg /lastwake":
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 0

Things done:
Power options all set to disable wake timers persistent
Network card disabled from waking up the computer never was anyway. Other hardware not indicated either never was.
Never used teamviewer. Never had mediacenter.
Only Powershell shows the offending tasks Get-ScheduledTask where {$_.settings.waketorun}
Need PSTools to launch Task Scheduler or I cannot do anything.
Have tried: deleting
disabling "wake computer to run this task"
disable altogether
Taken ownership of the task
All of these get reset latest next day.

Set up a task to disable them every hour: Run PowerShell.exe with the arguments -Command "C:\Windows\Manual Override\disable_wakejobs.ps1"
The content of "disable_wakejobs.ps1": Get-ScheduledTask ? {$_.Settings.WakeToRun -eq $true -and $_.State -ne "Disabled"} % {$_.Settings.WakeToRun = $false; Set-ScheduledTask $_}
Also ran in powershell admin: "Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned" first
This worked for like 2 days and never again. The task has System ownership and runs with highest privileges.

Changed Group Policy: Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update
Enabling Windows Update Power Management to automatically wake up the system to install scheduled updates
to Disabled

Modified the Registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator
Deleting contents, but just gets reset in a day or two.

DO NOT waste my time with arrogant "are your drivers up to date" or safe or recovery mode or whatever you call it nowadays.

5 year old problem ruining computers and wasting energy. I've had malware less damaging than this operating system.

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After reading what you went through I would strongly suggest you read the advice of Monkey57 and try his steps. Normally

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How to delete UpdateOrchestrator sense it will not allow me to disable it

Greg,



As you suggested I have changed my connection status to metered, viewing the Orchestrator in Task Scheduler/Task Scheduler Library/Microsoft/Windows/UpdateOrchestrator I now find:



Maintenance Install: Disabled

MusUx_UpdateInterval: Ready

Reboot: Disabled

Schedule Retry Scan: Ready

Schedule Scan: Ready

USO_Broker_Display: Ready



At least now the Maintenance Install and Reboot are disabled, which is step in the right direction.
However when viewing services (services.msc) UpdateOrchestrator is listed as Automatic (delayed Start), which starts without notice or warning thus causing system lag and most of the time freezing of programs; and if the program has suspended for a length
of time it is closed automatically, which means loss of data and time to reenter the data when I can access the program again.
Only time will tell if this had actually solved my issue with Update Orchestrator.



I thank you for your assistance and suggestions, and wish you clear horizons, fair winds and a star to guide by.