As recommend by the Microsoft crew I had enabled automatic updates… Big mistake!
After my laptop installed the batch of updates released on the 9th of January my laptop began endlessly rebooting. It blue screens as soon as is starts to load Vista. To make things even better even safe mode does the same thing.
After a process of trail and error with these update I worked out it was caused by KB943899.
Now obviously this doesn’t affect everyone otherwise they wouldn’t have release it… Or would they? Upon search the Internet I found a number of other reports from users with the same problem… I’ve only noticed DELL owners so far – I own a DELL XPS M1330.
I’ve raised a request with DELL as you can’t directly with Microsoft with an OEM license it appears… now we play the waiting game!
Just an update on this so far DELL have been in touch with Microsoft and have followed up with them a couple of times – however no luck with a stable update yet. In the interim I’ve disabled automatic updates and am installing any others that come through manually… although perhaps I should be more cautious of these considering my experiences to date.
Another update… Microsoft release an updated version of KB943899 on the 12th of Feb… Unfortunately nothing has been fixed… I installed it and started getting Bluescreens again.. then had to restore to the restore point..