windows vista SP1 not being an offered update after COMPLETE RESTORE (?) so I can't access SP2. 5 yr. old HP 530,

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• Attempting to bring a 5 year old HP 530 (they referred to it as a Business Notebook (??), with 32 bit Windows Vista Home Basic, back to original, using the 2 discs that can bring system up-to-date with prompted updates. I don't need to save anything,
  ANY files AT ALL.
  
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• I want to return it to like when I bought it, and use the 2 original discs to doneverything, and then bring it up-to-date with prompted updates.
   
  
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• Apparently,  I don't know when to press F9 or whatever, at what time, or when to put the second of the
  2 original discs in.  From what I understand,  #1 disc is
  Operating System DVD,  #2 disc is Application and Driver Recovery DVD (???). Copyright dates on these are 2007 & 2008. Also,  I do have Product Key.
   
  
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• I  need a COMPLETE tutorial, step by step, as I've attempted this 4 times, not getting the hang of it, & obviously don't have enough expericence at this.  When I THOUGHT I had completed this, after an all day multiple-update experience,
  none of the prompted updates included Service Pak 1 (SP1), which I understand is needed  before acquiring
  Service Pak 2 (SP2). Plus, most my Internet searches popped up a small window basically saying  couldn't connect to page, OPERATION ABORTED....
   
  
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• Do I need to attempt to disable (?) Windows Defender before installing ESET 6 Anti-Virus and Malwarebytes paid version  to this thing??       And at what point do I install these. As soon as I connect to Internet, the  Windows updates want to start RIGHT
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• Sure would appreciate help with this BEFORE I take a sledgehammer to this thing,
  MANY, MANY THANKS !!!
  

 

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