When you say "asking for things to continue and to allow things to run," what exactly are those things? Does it mention any specific program or update that's being installed? If it doesn't name anything in particular could you upload a screenshot to ImageShack and link to it here? That may help us understand exactly what installations are occurring and how to resolve it.
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John
Okay, I'm brand new to this so I hope I make sense. I just bought this laptop the other day and I plugged it in and got it all hooked up to the internet. I stuck in the Windows Vista Upgrade cd and did all that and everything seemed fine. So when it finished it restarted and a blue screen came up that said Install Software and please wait. Little windows popped up every few seconds asking for things to continue and to allow things to run and after a couple minutes the whole thing restarts and when it reboots it does the exact same thing over and over again. What I would like to know is why it keeps doing this. If I ignore the popups and the blue window it works fine but they're still there. I'm using the laptop right now to write this. So if anyone has any clue about what I said and you go the idea of what I'm trying to say, please let me know!!

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