Shutdown Win 7 without being forced to perform updates

Easy.

Start >Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Update.

Then, click the link for optional and recommended updates.

On the following screen where you can select the updates you want to install, highlight the first one on the list, then hold the shift key while highlighting the last update in the list.

Right click and "hide update". This will hide all highlighted updates and you can shutdown without any updates being installed.

You should notice that when hovering over the shutdown button in the start menu, the tooltip no longer says "shutdown and install updates", and the notification icon has disappeared. The shutdown button may actually change to "sleep" depending on your configuration.

Oversight my eye.

Micrososft always put out updates without checking they work. They can't afford for too many people to be able to not install their updates because they know we will all turn updates off and wait 6 months for them to fix the bugs in the updates they threw together to fix the bugs!!

Temp way round it (and you could create a patch file to do it but I can't remember the command for that), is to simple stop the Windows Update Service just for that session.

You need admin rights.

Go Start, run, type

services.msc

Look for Windows Update and click stop.

The shutdown option but forcing the updates to apply will be gone.

Shutdown.

When you reboot the service will come back on (as obviously you'll want that to keep stuff secure.  But this is a good work around if you just want to quickly shutdown for certain reasons.  Like I need to now to move a physical machine to a VM and can't wait for the updates.  I can do those later).

for a temporary fix, click the down arrow next to the Shutdown button, choose logoff

once logged off you will find another power down option button in the lower right hand corner.  click the down arrow button next to it and you will now find a Shut down option without needing to install updates.