ci: investigate and fix reliability issues with windows runners

[johnstcn]

The windows CI job has become problematic recently.
We need to investigate the root cause and fix it.

[matifali]

This has a failure rate of 18%. see stats

[johnstcn]

This has a failure rate of 18%. see stats

Is there a way to filter by branch==main? This would include PR branches if I'm not mistaken.

[matifali]

Unfortunately nothing I can see: