Yesterday, 13 October, there were quite a few updates installed on my Vista Business 32 bit / Dell Lattitude D530. After that the machine would try to start Windows, show the BSOD for an instant and restart repeatedly.
I could start it in Safe Mode but found I had no restore points to go back to. After backing up all my data, I deleted the partitions and did a fresh install of Vista Business. Everything worked again. Then I installed over 80 critical updates and everything still worked. Installed MS Office, all still working... Machine was faster than it had been in a very long time
But my Internet Explorer was only up to ver 7 so I installed the 20 something optional Windows updates which killed the OS again I was able to restore to a time before updates were installed and am in the process of installing critical updates again...
Any other victims? Have you identified which of this week's updates are killing Vista Business?
I have a very similar problem!
After the 13th update I have BSOD; but for me no safe mode working. I tried system restore, nothing to do. Some update has killed my Vista x64.
Suggestions? I need to remove the last updates!
I was able to get into safe mode with networking by holding F8 as the machine restarted. This did not work when the machine was restarting it's self but did work for me after I powered the machine down and started fresh.
Once in safe mode you should be able to back up your data to an external drive, reinstall the OS, and install the critical updates only. That is where I am right now... My system is working again BUT I'm 22 optional updates short.
I had a same issue on one of my systems too running turon64 x2 with windows vista ultimate it updated itself and needed to restart (thinking microsoft mustav thought this one through )
WROOOONG
it restrted and now just keeps restrting coming to startup splash screen and says updating configuration and restrts again ...
dosn't go to safe mode
dosn't load last known good configuration
dosn't even restore
oh yeah and its my BOSS's BOSS laptop ...im sooo screwed
1 x 640Gb (SATA 300)
Western Digital: WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B0
1 x 1Tb (SATA 600)
Western Digital: Caviar Black, SATA 6GB/S, 64Mb cache, 8ms
Western Digital: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device
PSU
Stock PSU - 375W
Case
Dell XPS 420
Cooling
Stock Fan
Mouse
Advent Optical ADE-WG01 (colour change light up)
Keyboard
Dell Bluetooth
Internet Speed
120 kb/s
Other Info
ASUS USB 3.0 5Gbps/SATA 6Gbps - PCI-Express Combo Controller Card (U3S6)
I was able to restore to a time before updates were installed and am in the process of installing critical updates again... 
