Vista - Vista update installed, now PC will not start!

Any ideas?? I installed a Vista Update yesterday which went finem in not a
little slow, i tried to turn on the PC today and now i greeted with a message
telling me one of the system 32 files can not be found!

Needless to say i a bit ****** off, the safe mode start just goes around in
a loop and will not initiate either, ani ideas or help would be thankfully
recieved.

Regards

Stu

Tap F8 repeatedly before Windows loads, in the options screen select "Last Known
Good Configuration".

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"Stu K" <StuK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F218F915-A21C-4C25-9A22-981B2E4C962E@microsoft.com...
> Any ideas?? I installed a Vista Update yesterday which went finem in not a
> little slow, i tried to turn on the PC today and now i greeted with a message
> telling me one of the system 32 files can not be found!
>
> Needless to say i a bit ****** off, the safe mode start just goes around in
> a loop and will not initiate either, ani ideas or help would be thankfully
> recieved.
>
> Regards
>
> Stu

"Stu K" wrote
> Any ideas?? I installed a Vista Update yesterday which went finem in not a
> little slow, i tried to turn on the PC today and now i greeted with a
> message
> telling me one of the system 32 files can not be found!
>
> Needless to say i a bit ****** off, the safe mode start just goes around
> in
> a loop and will not initiate either, ani ideas or help would be thankfully
> recieved.

Another option is to run the Startup Repair accessed by booting the Vista
DVD.

A Stop error occurs, or the computer stops responding when you try to start
Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925810/en-us

I use drive imaging to image the system regularly to an external hard drive.
I make sure there is a new image before making any software or hardware
changes. That way if something borks it, which can't otherwise be repaired,
restore the recent image. I adopted this approach years ago.

Ultimate, Business and Enterprise come with Complete PC Backup which is
drive imaging. I also use Acronis True Image which works well in Vista and
is more feature rich than Complete PC Backup. I use both Complete PC Backup
and ATI, for redundancy.

Glitches with computers are inevitable, doesn't matter the OS, so it's best
to put in place a good backup and recovery solution so you don't have to get
****** off about things. Take control of them instead.

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Instead of Safe Mode, select "Last Known Configuration" in the F8 Menu.

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"Stu K" <StuK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F218F915-A21C-4C25-9A22-981B2E4C962E@microsoft.com...
> Any ideas?? I installed a Vista Update yesterday which went finem in not a
> little slow, i tried to turn on the PC today and now i greeted with a
> message
> telling me one of the system 32 files can not be found!
>
> Needless to say i a bit ****** off, the safe mode start just goes around
> in
> a loop and will not initiate either, ani ideas or help would be thankfully
> recieved.
>
> Regards
>
> Stu