After Vista Update CPU Keeps Restarting

I have Vista home premium and It got  updated automatically after the update its keep on saying that updating 3 of 3 updated 0 % and restarting….

I am going to give you a step by step resolution for this problem

For this You just boot with your vista CD/DVD and go past to the language setup and select “ Repair my Computer ” let it run its startup repair go to advanced and select "command prompt”  at the prompt rename the following files

ren C:\windows\winsxs\pending.xml C:\windows\winsxs\pending.old.xml Press enter

ren C:\windows\winsxs\cleanup.xml  C:\windows\winsxs\cleanup.old.xml Press enter.

Do not worry if the last one fails reboot.

You will still have the nag however shortly windows will open.

Now go to start search and type "services.msc” (without quotes) Navigate to windows update and right click select "stop" click apply.

Next go to windows explorer and navigate to c:\windows\ software distribution, expand to show all in the right pane select all (in the right pane) and then delete.

Reboot, windows will recreate software distribution and the nag will have gone away. Go back to services.msc and make sure windows update has started.

References:

If you don’t have your Vista OS disk you can download the vista recovery disk from the following link

 Vista Recovery disk..

 

Subbu