My murdered Toshiba

[Hawkling]

Okay, I have a Toshiba Satellite. its probably two years old, running Vista Home Premium.
its been having troubles of all sorts booting for a while now, and yesterday I got the error code for a Corrupt Registry. been cleaning the fan I know it is not a like broken piece of hardware it probably is corrupt. Ive also noticed I can get it running until it begins installing updates from last december and january (ive pinpointed the Malicious software update as something that immediately after installing I cant boot up) Its also a persistant bugger that I cant get to stop sneaking into my updates. and then im here again (just ran a factory Reset... third time this week. If it werent for wanting this thing to function at optimum capacity i suppose I would disable windows update all together. so that it would always boot up like it did today. and yes i am considering disableing all updates.
a friend of mine pitched installing Linux as my operating system as he felt it would run worlds better. im skeptical.

I want to make this stop happening, means I do need help and am wondering what anyone has to say be it "yeah uninstall win update" or "yeah change OS" or if theres even a simple enough fix for this. I dont have the DVD for my computer although i have no reinstalled either service pack anymore and I do have a disk that came out in 2007. ? advice, would be appreciated. thanks.

the problem comes in many flavors but is generally the same. my computer stops booting up.

 

[richc46]

Welcome
I would assume that most of the problems that you describe are from the registry corruption. The best way to correct that is with a system restore from before the problem started. Be sure to check the box, lower left, on the dates screen, to show more points. From what you are saying the problem may be too old for that. If so, a repair install may be required. A install DVD can be purchased for cost from your Computer dealer,if the OS came preinstalled.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-system-restore-how.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-vista.html?filter[11]=Performance Maintenance

 

[Hawkling]

I've been doing Factory Resets, and it has not stopped the problem... that predates ALL of my problems. i just dont know what else to do. this computer is for school. I need it to work. not just cuz i would miss my files which are all gone again, but because I need access to my classes.

 

[richc46]

If you did a factory reset and the problem still occurs
Can be only one of three causes

You are doing something to cause the problem
Software conflict
or Hardware problems.
If it is hardware its memory.

If you have Registry corruption the best way is to try a repair install or to just reinstall or a system restore.

It might be best to reinstall, if you can get a DVD or perform a factory restore.
After that is completed, use Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes plus the Windows Firewall for your security.

Install programs one at at time and test in between to see if one of them could be the problem

Before trying any of this make a memory test and lets go from there.
Guide to using Memtest86+

Download and test for overheating with speed fan.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php