It Says "Installing Updates" but never shuts down

No actually if you are using VISTA no wonder your installation ll run for days. If you are using XP again you should wait till the updates get finished. There ight be some process going on in back screen. Wait for 1 or 2 hrs and if you still notice no change there might be problem with your updates. you restart and download the updates again. If you have genuine OS you can contact microsoft for help. They ll respond immediately. Rate me!!

If you are updating windows xp and it says installing updates when you are shutting down your computer, you should let it finish, even if it tales overnight. depenind on how many updates you have, better to go to the updates web site and do it from there. after they have installed then you should be able to do a restart on your computer and compleate. Any thing ells you are best off contacting MicroSoft

Depending on where it is stuck you can fairly safely reboot. It will usually reboot normally and complain that you shut down or just restart the install the odd time. I've never had one do anything worse but have heard of the odd problem before.

If you check the actual cause of this problem will most likely be lack of free disk space on your windows drive. You can try freeing up space before rebooting (if you can) and the updates will finish.

When the update finishes, it will automatically shutdown the computer.