Win8.1 UpdateFail immediate hangs

About half a year ago (7/20/2014) my computer was installing updates while I was playing a graphics intensive game like StarCraft II. The game crashed. Skipping the "Shutdown and install updates" screen/process/stage.
When I went to start the PC again it try'd finishing installing those updates.
"Startup and install updates" screen/process/stage
But Windows 8.1 had missed a very critical stage of installation and basically corrupted the whole system.
When I log in if I click on anything. Icons try to launch apps, etc. The computer will just freeze and refuse to respond.
Or respond very slowly after a very long period of time. I can open up the start menu (but not close it) and click on an app. Which again the PC immediately hangs. If I try to close the start menu it hangs.
Impossible to restart into safe mode due to this. The only way is Spamming F8 on start and hope you get in.
Three Issues I'm currently reporting:
1) Automatically installing updates without permission. I told windows to ask me first, it didn't ask.
(Let me choose which updates download and install updates) It just installed them.
Recognize your PC crashed and skip installing updates. Or undo them. Especially don't install during gaming which is when you're running your PC running at it's peak. My system wasn't very stable while operating under that load I guess and it didn't take much
for the game to crash the whole system. (and I don't even overclock)
2) Getting into windows 8 repair menu is annoyingly retarded to get into.
3) Windows Update failed to make a system recovery file before installing updates.
One of these updates had "4008" in it.
How I just solved this problem: (I've been booting into my old laptop w7 HDD in my gaming PC, had fun installing drivers with no network drivers.)
Finally downloaded windows refresh disc. It failed. But seems to have maybe done 1 or 2 things. (Did not delete anything)
Booted into safe mode. Where you can't do crap all. (No uninstalling) Safe mode worked fine.
I read a helpful web page that talked about dism in command prompt. (Page irrelevant to my problem)
Using this I listed my updates in cmd. (dism /Online /get-packages
I compared that list to Control Panel>Programs>Windows Features>View Installed Updates
The two lists were not the same. cmd had packages from 7/20/2014 while windows update only had packages from 7/19/2014 and one silverlight from 7/26/2014 (Doesn't make sense to me if I was locked out of my PC after 7/20/2014
Using dism /Online /remove-packages for_package_4008blahblahblah
I removed every package (5) from 7/20/2014
My PC now works. No thanks to crappy Windows Update. To bad I didn't know about dism 5 months ago.
Now hopefully the other 90% of windows 8 users that this has happened might be able to find this.
(Warning: Removing windows updates manually can definitely wreck an already wrecked system)
Specs:
i5-4570
PowerColor HD7970
8 Gigs Corsair LP White Ram
1 TB Seagate
320GB laptop drive
750 watt corsair RM series PSU

Hi there bigpighodges,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
Trouble installing iTunes or QuickTime for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1926
-Griff W.

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oracle    3999     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_pmon_XE
oracle    4001     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_psp0_XE
oracle    4003     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_mman_XE
oracle    4008     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_dbw0_XE
oracle    4010     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_lgwr_XE
oracle    4012     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_ckpt_XE
oracle    4014     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:02 xe_smon_XE
oracle    4017     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_reco_XE
oracle    4019     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_cjq0_XE
oracle    4021     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:01 xe_mmon_XE
oracle    4023     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:02 xe_mmnl_XE
oracle    4025     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_d000_XE
oracle    4029     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_s000_XE
oracle    4031     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_s001_XE
oracle    4033     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_s002_XE
oracle    4035     1 0 20:10 ?        00:00:00 xe_s003_XE
oracle    4771     1 0 20:11 ?        00:00:00 xe_qmnc_XE
oracle    4784     1 0 20:11 ?        00:00:00 xe_q000_XE
oracle    4791     1 0 20:11 ?        00:00:00 xe_q001_XE

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