Installing updates taking forever

[jmt356]

If when closing down Windows the option is to “Install updates and shut down” and you do so, and Windows takes an extraordinarily long time to install one of the updates, and “Installing update 9 of 9 | Do not remove power or shut down” has been on the screen for 10 hours, would you force shut down?

[ChrisGreaves]

... on the screen for 10 hours, would you force shut down?

Yup. By holding down the power button on the netbook/notebook/laptop.
Then I'd go get my system restoration suite - Macrium Reflect boot key/disk, external drive, ...