Allow me to, for a moment, vent my frustration at the Windows Vista OS. I need some assitance, if anybody is capable of providing it.
First and foremost, the Windows Update Service. I had the bad luck of possessing my laptop BEFORE the first service pack was sent out. So my laptop had all the bugs. Eventually they got so bad that I had to re-intall the OS (for it to even function).
However, after the re-install, Windows Update refused to work for me. I thought to myself: no big deal. I'll just download the service pack and catch up on updates whenever I can by just directly downloading them.
However, the only problem was that I can't install the service pack. I get an error, and nothing on the internet (I searched for nearly 4 days online and found nothing that worked) . So I thought to myself. "No big deal. As long as it works, I guess I don't absolutely need the updates or the service pack!".
Wrong again. Almost any of my favorite and necessary programs for my job at the newspaper require you to install the first service pack to run them on Vista. >_< Thus, I had a conundrum. What to do? Simple enough. Since I couldn't get Vista to run them or do anything right, I instead just installed the software on my parent's computer (which runs XP) and use it when I do work. Annoying yes, but functional.
That worked for a while. I was happy and healthy for months. Sure, it was a royal pain to do all the stuff working around Vista's stupid bugs, but I love the OS, and my laptop cannot have Vista removed for some reason (it's like it's intergrated into the hard drive and cannot be partitioned or removed NO MATTER WHAT). If ANYONE can tell me how to undo that, I will give them an opinion on ALL of their videos, and kiss their ring fingers till the sun goes down, so I can run my darling XP again.
However, now things have gotten ridiculous. I'm surprised I haven't gotten bluescreened while writing this. BAsically, my computer bluescreens every 2-3 hours, and without any warning if I open more than 3 programs at once. It has gotten RIDICULOUSLY slow, taking nearly 10-20 minutes to open adobe-based software, and even 5 minutes to open my openoffice software.
I did online research and found that almost all of those issues are Vista-related bugs (others being viruses, which I have removed already) that updates in windows update can fix. Especially the frequent bluescreens. However, I can't GET the WINDOWS UPDATES. What's worse is that a fix to fix that problem (fixing Windows Update service) is actually a windows update file. >_>
So far, my computer is alive thanks to Glary Utilities, and I can still function for a while. However, I need to resolve this issues as soon as I possibly can.
Also, here are just random pieces of information if you need them.
1) I use a wireless internet service at home which is how I connect to the internet
2) Computer Specs
Please help me. >_<



