It's possible that by turning the computer off that you corrupted the Windows Registry. You may wind up having to reinstall the Windows 8 operating system. I've had certain Windows updates take a couple of hours if there are conflicts between the updates which can happen if there are a dozen or so Windows updates.
Wait another couple of hours. Yes, it takes hours and hours.
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