williams1471
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Best to disable any antivirus during the installation of a service pack.
I can link you with my cloud backup of a full (& genuine) Vista installation disk complete with SP2 already included if you'd be OK with formatting and doing a clean install. But I'm not posting any links publicly so you'd have to post your email address disguised as in abc AT xyz DOT com and I will then email you it. Specify whether 32 or 64 bit in your response. You can come back and edit out the email address once you have it.
OK well hopefully someone else with more ideas than myself will spot this.
OK good luck ;-) If it's any consolation I just had to reinstall my Vista from scratch.
Yes, the link I sent is actually gives you whatever version is dictated by your key.
You'll always have that as a back up OS disk which is good