Most people didn't have this kind of issues. So something must have gone wrong with you.
See if system restore from command prompt, as documented in http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Start-System-Restore-from-a-command-prompt, lets you recover to more than about a week ago.
Kees
I am typing this from my laptop as my desktop computer, equipped with Vista Home Premium system (2009) won't open Windows anymore. The newest automatic Windows updates (I don't know the details) happened about a week ago and every time I closed/started the computer, this message came up: "Updates were not configured correctly. Reverting changes. Do not power off...". Every time I waited and eventually Windows would open or the computer would shut down, as desired. Today, it apparently went through - AGAIN - the 7 updates processing and then the screen went black and that was it. I tried to do a Ctrl-Alt-delete and the screen came up but nothing could be done as it returned to a black screen. I unplugged the computer again in order to start it again... it does start OK (no blue screen) but it stopped when reaching the part to open Windows (blank/black screen).
Please Help!

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