Re: A patch is preventing the system from starting. - Which one?

You are probably using a hardware driver that can't handle one of the patches. About your only choices are stop using the driver or the patch. You can easily select one patch at a time to test, using system restore to go back on failure. "Safe Mode With Command Prompt" will accept the command:

%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

You can also try to detect the problem using the error reporting available in the Windows Update app. When you 'view update history' you get a link to troubleshooting help.

If an error has occurred, it will be displayed with an error code that you can use to search online for help.



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"Thalador" <Thalador@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B2ED7C35-6BF8-463A-AEBA-CF543CEB78CD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So I am a good techie and patch my system regularly. I am running Vista x64
Ultimate SP1. Up until a few weeks ago no problem. I log on and windows
update says I have xx patches to install. I install and reboot and the
problems began. When I would try and open MMC, Explorer, IE it wouldn't open
or I would get a "Cannot create blank document" error. Tried to go into safe
mode, blue screen..Things kept getting worse until I got Stop errors..

So I get my Vista DVD and do a repair. It goes through and towards the end
the log shows

Root cause found:
---------------------------
A patch is preventing the system from starting.

Repair action: System Restore
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 144676 ms

My OS is back to working.. BUT, Windows update now shows I have 14 patches
to install. You can believe me I am not installing anything now. So, how do I
tell which patch prevented my system from starting?

.

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