Me: *turns computer off*
Windows: Configuring updates for 2 hours, DONT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER!!!

I thought it was on boot up

Should be..

@growling On boot it sometimes writes a couple (like 30k) registry keys, but the long takin stuff is on power off

Mine takes like a minute/two minutes to do your average updates. And this on a five year old Core i5 machine. SSD is a must.

@RememberMe I have an SSD and a Core i7, usualy takes like 3 minutes to update but this update is probably broken (>2 hours for the second time aleredy)

When you realize that in those 2 hours you could download ubuntu, flash it into your USB drive, live-boot it, install, boot the system, download and install all the updates, configure your entire DEV env and still have like 30 extra minutes for a nap (within the mentioned 2 hours span) :)

meeeh, but why bother, right? :)

@netikras I use unity so nope. Takes waaaay longer to install dat

@WIPocket too bad. It takes <20 minutes for me to install LinuxMint with all the updates :) Another 10 minutes to download iso and prepare bootable usb