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by wesley.chin 1 view

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A friend has a laptop running Vista Home SP1. After a series of Windows Updates, and then restarting, he is unable to boot normally. I did a system restore and then boot up is normal, but right after another windows update, system restore is needed again. Suspect it is a bad update that is the problem. What is the KB# for a update that is bad?

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by santeewelding

With Vista Home Basic, the update left me dead in the water. Could'nt do shilt. Had to wipe and reinstall. Stayed away from [i]any[/i] updating until a year or so later (secondary, backup machine, just so as I could get online in an emergency).

Tried it again. Problem appeared to have been fixed (with enough people complaining).

Good luck.

by ansugisalas

Support is free with update issues.

But you can always try to run one update at a time, reboot, see if it works. Best uncheck automatic updates then.

Could be a driver issue too, or a hardware issue that comes into play when interacting with a new (non-faulty) driver.

One final thing option; download the update, go offline, kill all the security software, and only then run the update.

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