Recovery Vista course

. I need a little help. Got a laptop from a friend, Compaq PresarioCQ-60. Small fast machine, or it would be. It is only 3 years. Good, came with VIsta. No problems. Chris bought a Windows 7 upgrade. Installed, has no auth key/OS (which is not the problem), then struggled to do stuff so he REINSTALLED it. BIG trouble. Plus it has hd 1800 cases of malware, etc... I can't uninstall Windows 7 using windows.old, it does NOT exist. I can not restore/recovery Vista using ALT + F10 and I guess it's because of Win 7. Since newer computers come without all the discs because of recovery programs, I can't erase the hard drive. OH, I also don't know what worm he used, 32 or 64 bits. Should have used 32. .

I have started, restarted, used the command-line safe mode to get some stuff. Got the 'no profile/desktop"(shortened, you know what I mean) made a repair system using the Win 7 Setup disk. Help! I'm on the short end of my rope. Sometimes I can boot into agreement and get all office stuff, sometimes, I get only an icon (trash) and the Start button.

If I download the Compaq recovery disks, will they work?  This looks like a dynamite job.

Thank you
Jann

Well, I got it. Not recovery, BUT that I had to do several times in restoring the system to find a point somewhere in March. It took some doing but I had finally restored it to a point in March and features has been returned. I'm now trying to burn the files of the machine Win7 I need to transfer to the XP machine, and in the morning I can format this one, then recover Vista to the constructor parameters and THEN install Win7 upgrade in the right way and get the registered key. What a day! But in the end, I did.

Thank you!!

Jann

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