>Well, assuming you're not exaggerating that's by far the longest I've ever encountered in my almost-20 years of support. The longest it's ever taken me to rebuild one of my or a customer's machine from scratch, including all apps is about 2 days.
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>If it really takes that long for you to rebuild a system from scratch you should be giving serious consideration to regular image backups.

I believe there is a security in place that is blocking all this. I have this windows update problem, the connection problem and other similar issues. If I can find what is causing this, I believe all will be adjusted. The Windows VPN problem seems also related to the same issue. So, before reinstalling, I need to make sure there is no other alternative.