So I'm freeballing, so to speak. I kept getting the "Chrome is out of date" message, however when I attempted to upgrade I was able to download the .exe file but it would never run. No error messages or anything, it just wouldn't do it. So my first thought was "turn it off, then turn it back on". First rule of maintenance. So I uninstalled, and attempted to reinstall. No dice. I thought maybe it was a Chrome thing, so I tried Firefox. Didn't work either! I browsed enough forums to be able to get Firefox to install (I have no idea what method finally worked) because I can't live with IE for more than about 15 minutes. Whilst doing all this stuff, I noticed that my version of AVG was way outdated. So I attempted to upgrade. Of course, it wouldn't install. This time I started getting a "another install is currently in progress" message. Which it wasn't! So I restarted and all that jazz, still nothing. So I was like, forget AVG, I'm gonna give Avira a try. Which was stupid, because that meant uninstalling AVG and then attempting to install Avira, which obviously wouldn't work since I've been having trouble installing anything!!! With the Avira install I get errors alternating between "another install in progress" and another "0x80070652" code. And another stating that I'm missing a .dll. I've tried everything that could possibly help on the Microsoft website, and then some. Since I can't install anything, I went ahead and tried to clean up my disk. I deleted several files, uninstalled some stuff I no longer use, and did a defrag. I even took my laptop apart and sprayed it out!! But to no avail. Please help me!
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.4
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 8139 Mb
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family, -250 Mb
Hard Drives: C: 681 GB (541 GB Free); D: 16 GB (1 GB Free);
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard, 1802
Antivirus: AVG Internet Security 2014, Disabled
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.4
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 8139 Mb
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family, -250 Mb
Hard Drives: C: 681 GB (541 GB Free); D: 16 GB (1 GB Free);
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard, 1802
Antivirus: AVG Internet Security 2014, Disabled