But if you’ve been waiting for an hour or so, then it’s probably stuck and there’s nothing else you can do. Windows update requires time to complete, so let it finish if you can. To turn off your computer or laptop, you can long-press the power button. Yes, you can restart your PC, and it should be safe in most cases. Don’t turn off your computer”, so you might wonder what you should do next. And Windows says specifically “Getting Windows ready. If you’re stuck on the update screen for hours and the percentage number on the screen isn’t increasing at all, chances are the update process is stuck.
While updates can improve the system stability and increase PC performance, the slowness of the Windows update process can be really frustrating.
Microsoft regularly releases update packages to fix bugs and add new features.
