I run two windows boxes. One desktop with W7Ult and a laptop with W7Home. The home did the auto updates but the Ult box had the IE11 unchecked in Windows Update. That prog gives me 4 options three of which dont download IE or any other update auromaticly. This may not be very helpful I guess but it's worth a look.

I had been running IE9 for over a year and manualy updated to 10 a few months ago.

W10, Ryzen 5 1600x, 16Gb,RTX2060Super+GTX980, PP11, 11.3.740