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CodeLurker:
Well, now that you say what it is, it does sound doubtful.  Since I restored the registry, I did the tweaks I have listed.  I have no problems with my system, except that I uninstalled IE8 ages ago, and no subsequent IE will reinstall.  Punishment for disloyalty to M$, no doubt.  I don't think it's related to Win Repair.  The other issue I had, is it was saying "unknown network" as well as "network access" with a home symbol in the system tray.  I could use the 'Net fine, but I couldn't bring up the network and sharing center.  A few updates later, and it asked me if I wanted to give explorer.exe access to the LAN.  I told it yes, and the center opens up normally, and I just have the one expected connection.  I don't know if that one is related to Win Repair or not.

I'm sure that none of the repairs in the default configuration breaks VirtualBox.  Suggestion: 1) install VirtualBox, 2) check that it runs, if not, you may need a virgin computer, i.e. pre Win Repair.  3) run WinRepair with the defaults, 4) see if VirtualBox runs.

Shane:
When I get a chance I will try that.

I test all the repair against a fresh install of each version of windows to make sure nothing breaks. After all it is suppose to repair things, so running on a clean system should always be safe, and that is how I test it :-)

Shane

CodeLurker:
The error comes up right when you start it, so you don't have to know how to use it.  If the main application comes up instead of a pop-up, it is fine.  There is a free download for it also; which is the one I was using.  (I've found it to be much better than VMWare, for any interested.)

CodeLurker:
My computer is still not running right.  I think after my most recent infections, it started pulling up one out of every four to six webpages as "Problem loading page" in FireFox.  Refreshing these pages later pulls them up promptly.  Pulling up the same page on another computer in my house here comes up quickly.  I don't think this has anything to do with Windows Repair; as I dropped back to a version of the registry before I applied the fixes, and it still did it.

In the course of doing this, I reapplied all off the fixes I listed above as safe, and they worked fine again with VirtualBox.  I tried four more, to try to resolve the problem, and VirtualBox broke.  These were only four more, so I broke it down to see which one was at fault.  It turned out to be "Repair Internet Explorer" which breaks VirtualBox on my machine.  This should save you a little time.

I'm running Win7 Home Premium 32-bit on an Intel Core i3.

Willy2:
According to my info parts of IE are also used by other Windows (sub-)systems. Perhaps Virtual Box (VB) un-registers one or more of those "IE files". Or perhaps VB registers it own files with the same name. Then running WR re-registers a Windows file with the same name.

"Repair IE" only registers a bunch of windows files with the "Regsvr32" command. You can open the file "IE.txt" (in one of the subfolders) to see which files are registered.

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