Computer screwed up

If there's no hardware fault you may have to remove, reinstall, remove again with a system restart inbetween each in order to wake Windows up finally and make the drivers active. I've run into that one on different occasions were Windows seems to get stubborn!

A run of memtest would still be a thought since you could be seeing problems due to a bad dimm needing replacement if you did download the correct updates for both video and sound. Have a friend that can burn the memtest iso image to a cd-r for you if you can't run a burning program there?

You simply boot from the cd-r with the image and run memtest while booting off of that for a few hours at least. That will either confirm or rule out any memory problems.

The antispyware XP 2009 might be the reason for the registry glitch seen earlier or RegCure was reporting a false positive. One way to see if the system is clean would be grabbing AVG 8.0 now seeing Ewido(updated) built into it as well as a few other tools in order to sweep the system for any bugs. http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afe

An effective and also free registry cleaner is called Eusing found at http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm It runs faster and is more effective as a rule over RegCure and is less intrusive as it finds more useless registry entries(garbage) then just about any other cleaner available.

If none of these or other methods work and no memory or other hardwares are found bad you may end needing to use the recovery disks to see a fresh copy of Windows running again. That would simply mean Windows was too polluted to run and install things normally.
 
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