I have literally never seen this occur outside of:
it attempting to reset the default PDF viewer multiple times
twice when the entire group of settings related to cortana/internet search from the taskbar changed and they didn’t attempt to map previous choices to the new settings
That was over the course of a literal decade, most of it with a day job working IT and sysadmin in a Windows environment.
If you’ve got more hard evidence of MS doing this I’d love to see it, but as far as I can tell this comes from the same place that has resulted in every support thread saying you need to run “SFC /scannow”.
I have literally never seen this occur outside of:
That was over the course of a literal decade, most of it with a day job working IT and sysadmin in a Windows environment.
If you’ve got more hard evidence of MS doing this I’d love to see it, but as far as I can tell this comes from the same place that has resulted in every support thread saying you need to run “SFC /scannow”.