My system crashed a couple days ago while I was responding to an e-mail. The computer locked up while I was typing then a message appeared that said there were several corrupted files and Windows had to close. My system automatically checks for viruses when retrieving e-mails. I didn't get any warnings about having one and I didn't open any attachments. When I rebooted, the same message came up and would not continue. I tried the "repair" on the Vista CD. That didn't help either. At that point I decided to do a system restore from my backup drive. I use Ghost 14. I used a restore point from about a week ago. When it completed and rebooted the system came back to normal. I checked most of my apps and they were all working fine. I then decided to check to make sure all my updates were current and ran Windows Update. It showed that there were 13 new updates that needed to be downloaded. I downloaded them and installed them. When it completed it said to restart the computer. Here's where the problem occurred. As the computer shut down and went through the part 1 and 2 of configuring the updates, that went through without a problem. When the computer rebooted and started part 3 of the configuration it got to 44% then shut down on it's own. Then it kept going through the same loop. Reboot, 44%, then shutdown. The only way I was able to get it back was to run the system restore again. Does anyone know how I can repair this without having to completely reload everything? I'm running Vista 32 bit on an AMD processor. If you need more info, please let me know.

The obvious solution is to not install that latest batch of updates.