So, I understand I am to post this here. I am attempting the XP repair and am to the point that I am required to enter the Product Key. I have checked the number three time, but I keep getting the "Invalid Key" error message. To things are out of the ordinary relating to this event: 1. I am attempting the repair with my OEM SP1 disc, but I have previously installed a slipstreamed SP2 disc which was made with the same OEM disc. 2. During the repair install, I was prompted to enter the path to the "smb.sys file from the SMBus disc." ????? I never found this file, so I skipped over this and the install continued. Thanks. I am the Human!

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Looks like you should have done your homework before installing. The following are just a few user comments about Vista Transformation Pack 6.0: "Has a MAJOR unistallation issue ...short of Reformatting or Repairing to a stable environment IF you are not prepared to do so you will be UNpleasantly surprised .. your system will NOT be the same when you TRY to uninstall this program...contrary to what is said on the messagebaords of the makes of the program." "This thing is bad news." "WILL NOT UNINSTALL... Reinstalling to try to fix it, or fix the uninstall issues, does not work either. Definitely not worth the trouble. You're pretty much looking at a reformat/reinstall to sort this all out correctly." "It slows down the computer. It comes along with a trojan small horse virus. Spywares and adwares are also installed without your knowledge. So I am requesting you folks, not to download without knowing what actually you are doing. If you don't follow my review you may end up in undesirable results and may have to format your whole computer." "After installing, the antivirus program bleeped that vimc.exe had a trojan. I deleted this... after installing and rebooting, the firewall app kept complaining sidebar.exe wanted to send out UDP packets. THIS IS NOT GOOD. Also, uninstalling is a pain - and I read the install instructions beforehand; it does not clean up after itself. (Well duh, this thing contains malware...)" In other words, it sounds like the only way to "repair" the mess you've gotten yourself into would be to format the HDD & do a clean install of XP.

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Thanks. Never hurts to clean up every few years anyway. It will give me the opportunity to deall with a few other minor issues I've been ignoring. I am the Human!

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From: 2old2soon To: jam I uninstalled and reinstalled VTP 6.0 using "Add/Remove Programs" and installing without going into Safe mode. Afterward, a scan using TrojanHunter 4.6 found 2 files it identified as Trojans - vimc.exe which is some kind of an installer, and not really a Trojan, and another called 'closeapp.exe' which was malware. TrojanHunter removed both, and VTP 6.0 has been working OK since.

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