Thank you avast! for breaking my Vista install.
Bit of a shame really - but it upgraded last night and rebooted as normal. I didn’t bother logging back in, went to bed.
Got back to the machine in the morning to Log In. It said Logging Off! So I tried to Log In again and when it got to the desktop, it claimed all my Recycle Bins were corrupt and they needed rebuilding. I couldn’t even run a Command Prompt. No Start Menu, Win+E didn’t work either.
So I hit hard reset and tried to log in again. Same problem.
It appears that avast was blocking access to everything on the machine. It meant I had no premissions to access anything as a logged in user. So I promptly rebooted into Safe Mode and uninstalled it.
Problem gone!
But it does highlight an important point. Just like you don’t trust Microsoft Updates (hence why companies use WSUS to handle updates), don’t trust your AV vendor either. Always test the update on a non-major machine first.
That said - why can’t I trust my AV vendor? I have done for years!
Oh well, gone to a trial of Trend. Have you tried running Vista without AV? I can’t stand the moaning 