Do Windows Updates Mess with Your Computer?

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Yesterday I wrote about having a clogged brain, but you know, the same thing happens to computers. They get clogged up and start to run slowly when too many applications are running at once. Generally, if my computer starts to be sluggish, I simply reboot to refresh the memory. But this morning, I hadn't done anything to make it sluggish. I didn't have my usual 20 tabs open, just three. And still, it would barely let me type a comment on myLot and it wouldn't run my game. I knew it wasn't because it needed a reboot, I had just turned it on. Then it hit me what the problem was - it was Microsoft. Whenever Microsoft wants to download updates to my computer, they line them up like angry villagers staging an assault on Frankenstein's castle. They start knocking on the windows and throwing mud. They stand at the gate with pitchforks and torches - nothing is going in, nothing is coming out. I am at a standstill. Sure enough, when I put the computer into shut down, it started downloading 18 updates. That took long enough, but when I returned to the machine an hour later, I found that it hadn't completely shut down. So I had to hold the power button down until it did, then it wanted to start up in safe mode, because it didn't shut down properly. That's when I get angry and yell at the computer - "That's not my fault, I didn't shut it down, Windows did you dummies!" The good news is that now that I have it up and running again, the sludge seems to have cleared and it's running normally. The bad news is that the next time this happens, it will still take me half an hour to figure out that the problem is not me, it's Windows updates kicking down the doors to get in. Have you experienced this slowdown just prior to updates coming through?