Please help! After a windows update last night, I put my laptop on and it won't let me type anything in browsers or anything else.instead a question mark appears when you type!

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  Install updates

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/install-Windows-updates

   

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  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/what-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-Vista

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  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/make-system-repairs-from-the-Windows-recovery-environment-from-Windows-Vista-inside-out

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  If step 2 does not work, then I suggest that you follow step 3.

  Step 3:

  If you have the disk for Vista that you received when you bought the Toshiba system then I suggest you to reinstall the operating system on the computer.

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