Windows Vista Upgrade Messed up my Laptop

I just used the windows vista upgrade anytime disc and it finished going
through the installation process and then it came to the welcome screen and i
signed in. Then a installation program popped up and then a NIHelper.exe
window popped up and asked me to allow it to run, then Setup.exe asked me to
allow it to run so I clicked allow for both of them and then the computer
restarted. Once it was back up, it was at the welcome screen so I signed in,
and the same windows popped up and i would click allow and then my computer
would restart AGAIN.

The next time i clicked cancel for the NIHelper.exe and setup.exe and it
still restarted my computer. Then I tried system restore but it won't let me
restore to the point before i installed the upgrade so now I'm out of luck
and I have no idea how to remove the upgrade because now I can't get around
the installation screens when I start up my computer.

If anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated

If this is a Toshiba, I'd contact them for help. It appears to be "bonus"
stuff Toshiba added to the Windows Setup process. Neither of these happen
on a store-bought copy of Vista nor a copy of Vista Anytime Upgrade from HP.

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"lytpynkdot" <lytpynkdot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7E23FA6B-FF1F-488A-97F6-26621D77C991@microsoft.com...
>I just used the windows vista upgrade anytime disc and it finished going
> through the installation process and then it came to the welcome screen
> and i
> signed in. Then a installation program popped up and then a NIHelper.exe
> window popped up and asked me to allow it to run, then Setup.exe asked me
> to
> allow it to run so I clicked allow for both of them and then the computer
> restarted. Once it was back up, it was at the welcome screen so I signed
> in,
> and the same windows popped up and i would click allow and then my
> computer
> would restart AGAIN.
>
> The next time i clicked cancel for the NIHelper.exe and setup.exe and it
> still restarted my computer. Then I tried system restore but it won't let
> me
> restore to the point before i installed the upgrade so now I'm out of luck
> and I have no idea how to remove the upgrade because now I can't get
> around
> the installation screens when I start up my computer.
>
> If anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated

In article <7E23FA6B-FF1F-488A-97F6-26621D77C991@microsoft.com>,
Lytpynkdot wrote:

> NIHelper.exe

If you literally mean NIHelper.exe then according to Google that is a
virus and you are in trouble.

If you meant NHelper then I don't know since all the results are not in
English .....

I thought I'd posted to you that if you really mean NIHelper.exe Google
shows it as a virus and you are in trouble.

If you mean NHelper.exe then Google gives some references but none in
English .....

Maybe you asked the same question somewhere else? Or there's a time lag
in the system.

I am also getting this error. I hae just upgraded from Vista home premium to
VISTA Ultimate on a toshiba satellite A200. Did you resolve your problem ?
How?

"lytpynkdot" wrote:

> I just used the windows vista upgrade anytime disc and it finished going
> through the installation process and then it came to the welcome screen and i
> signed in. Then a installation program popped up and then a NIHelper.exe
> window popped up and asked me to allow it to run, then Setup.exe asked me to
> allow it to run so I clicked allow for both of them and then the computer
> restarted. Once it was back up, it was at the welcome screen so I signed in,
> and the same windows popped up and i would click allow and then my computer
> would restart AGAIN.
>
> The next time i clicked cancel for the NIHelper.exe and setup.exe and it
> still restarted my computer. Then I tried system restore but it won't let me
> restore to the point before i installed the upgrade so now I'm out of luck
> and I have no idea how to remove the upgrade because now I can't get around
> the installation screens when I start up my computer.
>
> If anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated

Hey Guys,

I found a way to get around the NIHelper.exe issue. This was used by me
when I was upgrading from Home Basic to Home Premium. If you are having
this issue, do the following:

1. reboot the computer and enter Safe Mode

2. from there, go to search, and look for msconfig

3. select the startup tab

4. uncheck the Microsoft Script Host component, and hit apply to save
the changes.

5. restart the computer, and let it boot into Windows

6. you should have no issues now, and you will get a prompt that there
was a program blocked at startup, just select not to show the message
again, and you are done!

It drove me nuts, but it does work, and does no harm to anything in the
OS. Hope this helps, and enjoy Vista!!


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