Due to some other problems I was having, I went with "Recovery -> Reset this PC"... and after making a choice or two along the way, eventually got to and chose the one that basically said "Reset Windows, but please try to keep everything else as intact as possible."...
As a result, I lost a couple of custom shortcuts on my start menu, but mostly everything else was OK. (No big program reinstalls or reconfigurations, for example).
And now, no more of the autopilot errors. 👍