Windows 10: Virus on non-updated Windows Vista PC that eats files off USBs?!

My man is having a very odd business with his PC. He's been trying to update it from Windows Vista tee hee to Windows 10. This won't work for some reason, although he does have a legitimate copy of Windows 10 that we bought from Staples. I want him to update but he felt he was being a rebel and I said I think that he's caught a virus from before Covid, since that's how long it's been since he's been online with this particular PC.The virus or glitch is when I try to provide him with a PDF .pdf, Word .docx or Notepad .txt file via his or my USB, the file is immediately deleted?! It's on

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Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

Rufus 2.18, last update to support Windows XP and Vista

SEE HERE: http://rufus.akeo.ie/


Changelog

• Version 2.18 (2017.11.07)
  • Ensure that the same drive is reselected on device refresh
  • Add a cheat mode to cycle the USB port of currently selected device
  • Make lookup for updatable .cfg file more generic (e.g. ESET SysRescue)
  • Fix handling of multiextent ISOs (e.g. BlackArch Linux)
  • Fix propagation of image decompression errors
  • Update grub4dos to latest
  RUFUS 2.18 IS THE LAST RELEASE TO SUPPORT WINDOWS XP AND WINDOWS VISTA.
  FUTURE RELEASES WILL NO LONGER BE COMPATIBLE WITH THESE PLATFORMS!
  

 

Vista Pre-SP1 vs. Vista SP1

I've been Windows Updating for two straight days and I finally saw SP1. If you want to troubleshoot it, follow these steps:

• Show hidden updates
• Manually install any failed updates (google the KB_____ and install from the windows site)
• Make sure everything in Device Manager is good to go

I had to do step two for like 4 or 5 updates to be able to see SP1.

Any other benchmarks you guys want to see? I might try PCMark05 (I think it works on Vista).