ok, so I am writting from another computer now.

this is what i did:

i uninstalled spybot and avast, restarted the computer, installed the free version of IS, i restarted without putting the new license in and now it gives blue screen with the free version of IS.

I have the pc in safe mode right now, i went to control panel to try to delete “Microsoft Visual C ++ 2008 redistributable x86 9.0.30729.4148” as someone suggested, but i get an error window saying “the windows installer service could not be accessed. This can occur if the windows installer is not correctly installed. contact your support personnel for assistance”