On 7 Home Premium, shutdown in kid's bedroom takes 1hr+ due to updates. Help!

Adhib

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I am finding all kinds of advice about how to stop simple shutdown commands being hijacked by hours of updates each evening, all solutions different and highly technical. This is a disaster for my kid's new gaming PC (noisy, glow in the dark thing). He needs to be able to power off completely to get sleep. We've just had two consecutive nights of 170+ updates, and now as I'm attempting to resolve have had to sit here for another 45 minutes while an additional 18 drop in.

I'm genuinely struggling to think straight about solving this, it's too infuriating to have such basic functionality locked away. Does anyone have a good, simple solution that will work on Windows 7 Home? Or should I get my money back and try buying something that works?
 
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press windows key -> in search box type in gpedit.msc -> on lefthand side go to computer configuration -> administrative templates -> windows components -> scroll down to Windows update. Right click and enable "Do not display Install Updates and shutdown option"

also enable "Configure automatic updates" and set it to option number 3 - Auto download and notify for install.

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press windows key -> in search box type in gpedit.msc -> on lefthand side go to computer configuration -> administrative templates -> windows components -> scroll down to Windows update. Right click and enable "Do not display Install Updates and shutdown option"

also enable "Configure automatic updates" and set it to option number 3 - Auto download and notify for install.
 
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