Nickname said:
Windows 95 but by then it was up to version b (I think that is when USB support began), and it had improved immeasurably.
I couldn’t remember what the official title for it was. +1 internets for you good sir!
As to updates, if you leave it alone it WILL install all by itself. A few weeks ago I had a couple updates that wouldn’t install and then magically they did it on their own one night during a shutdown. Just leave it be, MS will fix it.
Dice, your media center is probably disabled or you have a proprietary program pre-installed with the computer that is conflicting with it. WMP11 comes with Vista. Notepad is a VERY frequent target for viruses and malware programs, try googleing a replacement .exe for it.