windows and washing machines

OH has been having trouble with his lappy.
It starts from cold if you go into safe mode and then all day long it will boot fine,then next day it needs safe mode again on the first boot.
It was going fine till the wretched automatic updates.
He being a non techy type of person, deleted everything and then tried to run the recovery thing.
It seemed not to fix it.
Yesterday I ran the recovery again and it did not help.
Today we formatted the drive and recovered yet again.
Not sure if it is software related at all.
I am thinking maybe getting it stable and then upgrading to 7 instead of the dreaded vista will make it seem a better machine in any case as this machine on which I am typing is the exact same model as his and runs about twice as fast.
Funny how it is always windows update that seems to muck things up.

The new old washing machine is installed.
It is an indesit W311 or something like that.
It only fills cold which is a bit of a downer but at least it means we can wash on cold if we want.
When we got it plumbed in,I pulled out the detergent drawer and discovered a 6 year accumulation of fabric softener and powder,thick like old fat under it.
The drawer itself was covered in mold and so was the space it fits into.

We ran it on the hottest wash last night 90 degrees (probably for the only time in its entire useful life) ,empty after I cleaned out as much gunk as possible.

OH is sworn to weighing his laundry before filling as it is his clutziness with overloading that has killed several of the previous machines.