Hello everyone. I'm here because I'm having a big problem. I have two computers, both Gateways, both the FX series, one's the Laptop, other's a desktop. Both have Vista installed. The laptop has the 64-bit ultimate edition, while the desktop has the 64-bit home edition. I've had little to no problems with the laptop, and I've had no problems with the desktop....until now. I tried to download winrar, and when I went to install, it said that some files were not able to install and that I should restart my computer and try again. I did so, and same problem came up. I noticed the second time around that the file it was having problems with was the .exe file.
I really needed something that could open a .zip file, so I tried to download 7-Zip instead, and came accross the same problem. I'm pretty decent with computers, so I tried to fix the problem myself. I ran 2 different virus scans (McAfee and Norton), 2 different registry cleaners (cclean and eusing), and I tried running a few adware removers including Hitman Pro, and other than a few small registry errors, nothing shows up. I still have the same issue, but now I noticed I can't install any .exe files and some .exe files won't even run. Now I'm having problems connecting to the internet with that computer. I've done everything from going through the registy myself and trying to run msconfig and stop all programs and services from starting up that arn't Microsoft, and still have the same issue. I tried to run everything as administrator as well, nothing....
I want to try to fix this problem without completely wiping everyting out and starting from scratch, but I don't know what else to do. I've tried to shut off windows defender and UAC and still same issue. This is getting very frustrating.
I really needed something that could open a .zip file, so I tried to download 7-Zip instead, and came accross the same problem. I'm pretty decent with computers, so I tried to fix the problem myself. I ran 2 different virus scans (McAfee and Norton), 2 different registry cleaners (cclean and eusing), and I tried running a few adware removers including Hitman Pro, and other than a few small registry errors, nothing shows up. I still have the same issue, but now I noticed I can't install any .exe files and some .exe files won't even run. Now I'm having problems connecting to the internet with that computer. I've done everything from going through the registy myself and trying to run msconfig and stop all programs and services from starting up that arn't Microsoft, and still have the same issue. I tried to run everything as administrator as well, nothing....
I want to try to fix this problem without completely wiping everyting out and starting from scratch, but I don't know what else to do. I've tried to shut off windows defender and UAC and still same issue. This is getting very frustrating.