OK My Darlings, this is what happened.
Vista crahed big time at the beginning of the week.
Nothing would bring it back so I took it back to Factory Settings.
It was fine, better than it had been for months, then as I added more and more updates ... there are about 4 years of them ... it got slower. Then I put in IE 9 and that was it, the poor old thing froze THEN it went into a cycle showing me a screen saying configuring updates 3 of 3 0% This notice no sooner came up than it rebooted.
No sooner rebooted than the 0% of 3 by 3 confguation came up. After two hours of this I gave up. Switched off at the point.
Yesterday I once more went back to Factory Settings. Everything is going fine now and I am doing the updates. I'm not using it to work on line so this is coming for a very old and tired XP, bless it.
So Far everything looks good with Vista, so no panic .... yet
