nstall Vista Home Premium x64 SP1 over Vista Home Premium - SP 2

[KCD]

Hi fellows,

same old story. anti-virus protection expired, the woman ran without protection & got infected.

Avast, Avair, Malwarebytes, SAS, etc seem to have cleaned it up.

But cannot get online &, according to Belarc, the computer is at least 43 updates behind in Windows patches.

Also, when booting, I get the following messages:

'Failed to load UMCWL.DLL library file'

'google desktop did not startup successfully'

So Toshiba's Pre-Installed Software included Google DeskTop.

But Google Desktop was discontinued Inside Google Desktop

Since she has no recovery / repair disks, my question.

Is it possible to install Vista Home Premium x64 SP1 on this machine instead of the original software & thereby eliminate the Google error message?

Computer is - Toshiba Satellite P205-S6307 - Vista Home Premium - sp 2

Thanks much

[EzyStvy]

It'll require a nuke and pave (format the drive) but yes - if you have a vaild unused keyed code you should be good to go.

[KCD]

Ok,

thanks much

[Nuclear Krusader]

For some Toshiba models you'll need a BIOS update for Windows 7 64 to run. Check at the Toshiba support web site.

[iJasonTATE]

Make sure to back up somewhere.