Damaged vista!

Hallo

I use vista home premium on my acer notebook. My brother installed some browsers (IE8 and firefox), downloaded from others sites.

I uninstalled them to install the original programs. After that a reboot was needed. Now it don't starts (normal and safety mode).

Can some one help me and tell me if there is a way to get the notebook running without replace th OS.

Thanks lim

 

Any error messages? - You can try a repair install...

By the way, what was wrong with IE8 and FF???

Why do I feel that's not all there is...

 

The fact that IE8 was installed through a third party site is pretty suspicious; Windows Update installs it automatically. I would suspect you got some nasty malware.

 

No, no error messages.

The matter was that there were different tollbars, start page links, some features from site providers,... I don't like them. In case of IE8 maybe there was no reintall only some added features.

I think the uninstall of IE8 was the problem.

 

It shouldn't cripple the OS.

Toolbars - you can get them from all sorts of places - you do not have to instal the browser to get them.

See if you can do a repair from a Vista disc or the recovery disc.
If you do - maybe to be cautious, run Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes once - if they don't find anything you have good cause to believe your system is "clean" (no guarantee though).

 

Ok, thanks I will try to repair from recovery disk.