Vista is corrupted and no one will help

[Lang Murphy]

(being sarcastic) oh i'm sorry i didn't it was prohibited to make a joke
in this newsgroup

It's not prohibited and you weren't making one.

Lang

 

[Frank]

There is no Microsoft approved path to fall back to XP or another
version of Windows. In fact if you install Vista over a XP system it
will trash that operating system's validation key. A lot of people
learn that the hard way. I'm kind of surprised nobody I'm aware of has
sued over that.

Congratulations on showing us all just how dumb you really are. You go
off on one of your pretentious pompous big mouth diatribes that has
nothing to do with what the op said.
You are truly the village idiot and the laughing stock of this ng.
Frank

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Maybe you misunderstood my point. My machine came loaded with Vista.
I would like to downgrade to a more agreeable system, like XP or even
2000.

From what I understand, you need to go back to the vendor, the computer
manufacture, that installed Vista on a preloaded machine and tell them that
you want to downgrade to XP. They should be able to give you the support and
how and what you need to do.

 

[XS11E]

I TURNED ON MY COMPUTER ONE DAY AND ALL I RECEIVED WAS A MESSAGE
STATING MY VISTA "PRODUCT KEY WAS NOT GENUINE." THE KEY WAS
GENUINE ENOUGH TO CHARGE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS TO PURCHASE IT, BUT
ITS NOT GENUINE ENOUGH TO USE IT. I CANNOT LOG ON AND I CAN'T
FIGURE IT OUT. MICROSOFT ACTUALLY WANTS ORE TO FIX THE PROBLEM!
VISTA'S 'SEARCH ONLINE FOR HELP" ENGINE IS A JOKE. IF I'M
SEARCHING FOR HELP 'UP,' IT GIVES ME 'DOWN'; IF I'M SEARCHING FOR
HELP 'DOWN', IT GIVES ME 'UP,' AND SO FORTH...DOES IT EVER WORK?

1. Don't hijack another's thread, start your own.
2. Don't shout, typing in all caps is considered shouting.
3. Learn how to post.
4. When you've done items 1 - 3 post again properly and someone will
help you.

 

[Kevin John Panzke]

Re-Format Your Computer And Install Open Source Linux, Just FYI.

 

[Guest]

Thanks- You are the only person ( no offense to anyone else on this blog-
speaking primarialy about my blog on Dell) that has bothered to just answer
my question. I'm SO frustrated by this whole thing. I really want to take the
computer to a field and shoot it. I bought this Dell after the motherboard on
my 19 day old HP went to ****. (It just died- quit responding to BIOS)

I hate the idea of having to back up everything (not because it hasn't been
backed up, just because it's a pain to double check everything- not to
mention that the entire computer doesn't work right, so most of my back-up
options aren't there because the computer is corrupt and they just don't
work) and reformat the computer, but I know no choice is really there. I just
wish that there was an "easy" fix. I did confirm with Dell that it was a
Windows update that corrupted the system, and one of my friends explained why
it can happen to me because of the update and not a full install.

I was hesitant to install the Vista upgrade to begin with and waited a few
months thinking the the biggest and baddest of the kinks would be worked out
by then. I love computers, can't live without them, have three of them at
home. I was basically attacked on the Dell blog saying that I had to have
done something to trigger the corruption. I would think that most people that
own three computers and use them on a fairly regualr basis, know enough about
computers to know when they did something themselves and when they don't know
what happened, but something bad did, they might not have done anything.
Ultimately I want Microsoft to know that it happened, but I'm outside my 90
free support time frame, and refuse to pay $59 to tell them about it. I was
hoping, when I posted the messages on both boards, that someone else had it
happen as well and could inform me of other options. As far as I know, I'm
still the only one that has had this specific problem.

I guess I'm just disappointed in Microsoft and Dell. Ultimately I knew I
didn't do anything to cause the corruption and wanted Microsoft to, at least,
listen to me. I wanted someone from Dell to understand me ( On a side note-
why are all of our call centers in foreign countries? You can't make a joke
with them, they don't understand the tone of your voice, and really, they
don't speak that great of English).

Thanks for the help and ideas from everyone, and I'm pretty sure no one on
here attacked me for having done something to the computer myself- I
appreciate that. I guess I just have to wonder, why didn't I get a Mac?
Thanks!


upgrade sometimes. Your best path is to format the HD, lay down XP, don't do
any other software installs, lay down Vista get drivers and such installed,
and then install your other software. You may not like this path, but it may
be the least path of resistance for you.

 

[HLS]

Thanks for the help and ideas from everyone, and I'm pretty sure no one on
here attacked me for having done something to the computer myself- I
appreciate that. I guess I just have to wonder, why didn't I get a Mac?
Thanks!

I was similarly scolded by HP for deleting their files from my machine.. I
did nothing
of the kind.

Now, I ran the backup before I ran a System Recovery (automatic reformat and
restoration
of software to original status). But, now I am leery of restoring my backed
up files.

Can anyone tell me if I run the risk of re-corrupting my machine this way??

 

[HLS]

First I noticed that my internet connection is telling me that I have no
connection- well I'm on the internet.
Second I can't play sounds in games or music programs, while Windows
sounds
play.
Third Windows Security Center is telling me my firewall is turned off,
Windows can't find any antivirus software on my computer (which I have)
and
Windows Defender is turned off and won't turn back on.

By the way, ivesflower, I just learned another thing I did wrong...My
machine came bundled with Office 2007.. After looking it over, I found it
quite different from my Office 97 Pro suite, and neither wanted to learn a
new system nor pay for the damn thing....

So, I installed my Office97 Pro and found it worked fine. Later, I
uninstalled the Microsoft
Office 2007 for Students stuff. BAD MOVE!

In this case, I am counseled that one can indeed use Office 97, BUT the
Office 2007 suite MUST be removed from the machine first. Apparently, if
this is not done, Vista can go into
a nervous breakdown.

If I had a good working XP system, I would stay with it, I think.

 

[Guest]

Just incase anyone wanted to know.. here's how I fixed the problem.

First Dell tech support told me I had a virus- No virus.
Second they told me I had to reformat.
Third they told me to get more memory (RAM) which I did- helped the speed,
didn't solve the problem.
So I reinstalled Vista, most of the problems went away, but I had to
uninstall both sound drivers and reinstall them. Then I slowly started to
reinstall programs onto my computer. I did it one at a time and rebooted
between each.

ADOBE corrupted my system AGAIN! I downloaded and installed it and instantly
had the same problems. So I uninstalled Adobe- any and all Adobe products,
and reinstalled Vista again. I haven't reinstalled Adobe, and haven't had a
problem since.

 

[Richard in AZ]

Just incase anyone wanted to know.. here's how I fixed the problem.

First Dell tech support told me I had a virus- No virus.
Second they told me I had to reformat.
Third they told me to get more memory (RAM) which I did- helped the speed,
didn't solve the problem.
So I reinstalled Vista, most of the problems went away, but I had to
uninstall both sound drivers and reinstall them. Then I slowly started to
reinstall programs onto my computer. I did it one at a time and rebooted
between each.

ADOBE corrupted my system AGAIN! I downloaded and installed it and instantly
had the same problems. So I uninstalled Adobe- any and all Adobe products,
and reinstalled Vista again. I haven't reinstalled Adobe, and haven't had a
problem since.

What version of Adobe were you installing?
Which of the many Adobe products were you installing?

 

[Charlie Tame]

Just incase anyone wanted to know.. here's how I fixed the problem.

First Dell tech support told me I had a virus- No virus.
Second they told me I had to reformat.
Third they told me to get more memory (RAM) which I did- helped the speed,
didn't solve the problem.
So I reinstalled Vista, most of the problems went away, but I had to
uninstall both sound drivers and reinstall them. Then I slowly started to
reinstall programs onto my computer. I did it one at a time and rebooted
between each.

ADOBE corrupted my system AGAIN! I downloaded and installed it and instantly
had the same problems. So I uninstalled Adobe- any and all Adobe products,
and reinstalled Vista again. I haven't reinstalled Adobe, and haven't had a
problem since.

You adopted the best procedure you could, laborious but effective.

Instead of Acrobat reader try Foxit, think it's www.foxit.com but not sure.

 

[Richard Urban]

I have done, as you have, many times over the years. That is why I advocate
an immediate reboot after any program installation (or patch installation) -
even if it is not required by the programs installer.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[MICHAEL]

I tend to agree with that, too.... and never empty
temp files after a program installation until after
you reboot. Lots of users will install software,
get a prompt to restart now or later, they choose
later. Then, before they reboot, they'll run something
like Crap Cleaner, and those files from the install that
couldn't be replaced because they were in use are deleted.
Not good.


-Michael