This morning it went into a half hour update loop with me boiling with rage after the 3rd reboot or so. I nuked the partition and redid everything. Hopefully it lasts about another year, unless it was something I did.
I think I recently updated visual studio through the visual studio setup program, which is a huge beastly thing. That might have switched stuff on without my knowledge.
I despise this little 50 meg partition windows keeps making. I wouldn't mind it so much if it wouldn't stick it between my 2 useful partitions. Makes it difficult / impossible to resize if need more space with one or the other.
I tried moving it but it went very haywire and I ended up needing to blast all the partitions but sda1. It's some efi garbage. Never saw the need for any of that crap.