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I purchased a laptop a little less than a year ago. I will not mention the name but they do most of their sales online.  Anyway I was forced to have vista installed. I was not all that to happy about that for starters.  I opened the box turned it on and thus the setup began.

I made sure to turn off the windows update.  A few months ago while I was volunteering at a youth camp I was using my laptop to do some work for them. They had a wireless signal however it was very prone to outages. For whatever reason windows update attempted to update itself eventhouhg the updater was turned off. I was unable to stop the update and i guess halfway through the updated I lost signal and the file was then corrupetd. I tried to update the computer a few days later once I was back home and on a more stable connection.  It would not let me update it nor roll back to an earlier date with windows restore.  So i just let it do its thing turned off the auto updater again.

A few  weeks ago guess what it did AGAIN turned on the auto updater downloaded and then rebooted on me mid project. Thank goodness I did not loose anything.  After it said it could not install the updates and then rolled itself back and then rebooted.

Once rebooted I tried to login that is where the fun begins.  It attempted to login and then promptly told me the shell32.dll file was either missing or corrupt do i want to continue? I clicked yes, a  few more prompts later I found myself logged out. By this point I was so pissed off I just left the darn thing sit for two weeks.

Now any computer geek would then reboot into safe mode with networking download a copy of a shell32.dll file reboot and bam we aer back in business. O NO vista will not allow this.  I tried to reboot the darn thing into  safe mode.  So i jump on my trusty desktop open up google. To my suprise I find that in order to use the safe mode feature you must activate it in windows. WHAT THE ……. This would have been nice to know when I had a computer up and running so i could turn it on.

PLAN B.  Now i get the oppertunity to go to my local computer geek store buy a converter that will allow me to plug my laptop hard drive into my desktop. I will then promptly scan for viruses and spyware.  The only problem with this plan is finding a shell32dll file for windows vista

CURSE YOU MICROSOFT I VOW TO BUY A MAC AS MY NEXT MACHINE.  I was actually planning on getting one this just give me more of an excuse and reason to do it I will keep you all updated.