>Ok, I have seen Windows do some strange things in the past, but this has to be the wrost. I have been have endless problems with Windows 7 for the last 6 months. First, it decided that the registered version is not genuine, and the solution is running a activation application; that will not run because the OS thinks it is not genuine. Next, it decides that the Anti-virus programs are not something, and will not run them either. Started to collect viruses. At this point I became afraid to even turn on the machine.

It sounds much more like you have a malware problem rather than a Windows problem. This is not a Windows issue.