Why don't my NOTHING full of Vista SP2?

OK - Here's the dope:
An acquaintance brought me a Dell laptop which was... uh, seriously 'degraded.
(in fact she brought me TWO portable identical problems similar-more on that later)
Details-(on two laptops)

  • Dell Inspiron 1525, with 3 GB of RAM and a 200Gig.
  • Vista SP2 (32 bit) with NO updates ever made!  (go figure)
  • Several Antivirus programs on every laptop.

Laptop #1 don't forget - I think I've finally cleaned.
But portable #2:
Attached:

I came acrossanother wire while trying to repair Vista SP2 system users.
They had both McCrappy and Norton stuff on it - I managed to uninstall these, as well as... Laughing out loud...  Avast and ADAware and a bunch of other bloatware.

Then, I managed to run a reg-cleaner (CCleaner) and and an Antivirus (SimplySup Trojan Remover) - the system seems pretty clean now.

Strangely, Winupdate tells me that they have NEVER had installed updates!
$% #& USERS!

The most common error I get now seems to be "Explorer is not reponding."

I renamed the file datastor.adb and now when I run the update, it's there forever.
However, the icon in the corner says "Windows can't check for updates.
Ye, s I have a wifi internet connection.
Win Defender has not been updated since December and after uninstalling AVAST, Norton and McCrappee, Icurrently I HAVE NO protection against viruses on the laptop. (Dell Inspiron with 3Gig mem)

Here I could install MS - SE, but IE chokes continuously.

All sorts of errors occur on this topic now comes to tell me the Dell Wi - Fi stopped working!

Oh oh-it just froze - now even Ctrl-Alt-Del will not work! Time for the salvation of 7 seconds apres-doigt.

I'll get back to you.

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Ok...  I got the Dell Vista disc install, and it allowed me to "return" to the point of backup "2011-07-22"... uh...» It's today!
Tried a Windows Update - he started to blow away, and the icon in the task bar said "Windows can't check for updates.  But hey - this has not prevented Winupdate sitting there and pretend there was an ongoing update...  BAH!

I'd like to install MS Security Essentials, but even the IE freezes!
The cursor over the taskbar is now this cute little whirlwind 'waiting' cursor.  Bah.

Oh, wait!  After 3 or 4 MINUTES, yes MINUTES! my context menu finally popped up!

It seems that whenever you click on Configuration, the order goes through after a wait of 1 od 5 minutes!

Ahh we'll try again Winupdate!   The time now is 20:35
OK here it goes-"check updates...". ».    Maybe I'll run this time for an hour or two before again by pressing THE. switch DAMN ON / OFF for about 7 seconds! (Yes, Ctrl-Alt-Del is not recognized in this rotten system).

I'm starting to suspect that it is perhaps a clever way of MS telling me to go to Win - 7.
Well, sorry, unless the is free, I will suggest to the user that I can wipe the drive and install Ubuntu 1104.   She's probably better off with that.
The saga continues.
See again you at 21:35 or more.
(now you have probably realized that I get this in a blog, right?)

=============================
2011.07.22, 21:15 -
Huh? The laptop has rebooted spontaneously!
Fortunately, I have the Dell Vista install disk in the CD drive!  Maybe time to do a HD Format...
I think that anyone who undergoes this painful experience with Vista should be able to get a FREE copy of Win - 7.
(just saying...)

Addendum-before someone suggests it is a memory problem:
I swapped the 3Gig of RAM in the laptop #1 for the 3 concert in portable #2.
The problems on the same laptop #2
I'm kinda leaning towards a motherboard problem now...
I COULD swap hard disks, but Windows will probably ask me to re-enter the license keys...
========================

DETECTIVE CONAN DOES NOT!

The saga continues...

After that I gave up on the hard disk in this laptop and was resigned to buying a new one, I deleted and put it in a USB SATA enclosure.

Then, I plugged into my laptop Win 7 and ran MS Security Essentials over it.

Guess what?
MSSE found a bunch of JAVA - CVE-2008-5353 files... etc. which he essentially advised me to "REMOVE IMMEDIATELY.

Once this is done, I ran the SimplySup Trojan remover, and HE finds a bunch of 'MYWEBSEARCH' spyware.

Then I took the drive on my desktop, running Win7 and AVAST.
Avast found a couple more Trojans!

Finally, I put the Vista disk in the laptop hit and the "physical disk" problems had disappeared as if by magic.
Laughing out loud! -with the exception of 330 meg for Windows-updates to day who asked to be installed.
This was done after that I installed MS - SE on the formerly "broken" drive

The system now works like new (if you can call new MS Vista).

Maybe NOW I can say 'Détective Conan'!

PS - I mentioned that there was a more or less identical Vista laptop which seemed to be 'OK '.
Nevertheless, I'll remove his drive and analyze it as an external USB using my systems MSSE Win - 7 and above, AVAST before trusting this new!

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