Vista Utilities

RobertoMoir

Lieutenant_Thrift wrote: »

I would but they didn't supply a Vista CD when I bought it.

Recovery partition on the disk then?

Tweaking seems easier

You say that, but you'd be most of the way to done in just a couple of hours, if you use the 'restore' method and you'd be more certain it's going to work, too.

I'm not a big fan of those "tweak" tools.

Lieutenant_Thrift

Thanks for the advice. I think I'll try the software tweakers first then try recovery partition if no joy. Won#t be downgrading to XP, got it in 2001 and used it for nearly six years at home and still use it at work. I hold the unfashionable view that vista's not that bad.

Donnie

You can take a look at what is filling up your HDD by installing and running WinDirStat

Not that bad, but it does have the habit of eating up your hard drive with Shadow Copies and it's Winsxs folder as no doubt you are finding.

Donnie

The fact that you cannot install SP2 indicates the presence of Malware.

Download, install, update and run a Quick Scan with Malwarebytes' AntiMalware. Choose 'Remove Selected' at the end of the scan and reboot. After rebooting, open the program again, go to 'Logs' and post the log produced here.

spud17

Donnie wrote: »

The fact that you cannot install SP2 indicates the presence of Malware.

Myself and closed have both asked, here, and on the 'What security do you use?' sticky, what's this AV antivirus you mention?

There is a known infection of a similar name.

Hammyman

First port of call, clean the muck out of the heatsink then install and run in following order:

Malwarebytes Antimalware
Piriform CCleaner
IOBit Smartdefrag.