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Agent88:
I went on a week's vacation and when I returned, my PC showed issues, especially with IE11.  I attempted to uninstall/re-install IE11.... bad idea.  I have run into a myriad of problems ranging from Chkdsk telling me my file system was RAW, to reporting corrupted files unable to be fixed.  In typical Microsoft fashion, would not tell me which ones.  I finally did a Windows Repair from my original CD and got rid of the RAW issue, and ran Windows Update.  WU would not install IE11 which I had rolled back to IE9.  Found the prerequisites from MSFT but unable to uninstall IE9 (completely).  Ran SFC, Update Repair Tool (Hotfix), did a clean boot, tried SAFE mode, but now WU will not do anything but aggravate me (searches infinitely) and I have lost all Update history, etc.

SO... I stumbled upon your Repair tool and thought I would give it a try.  I meticulously followed your instructions to do a Clean Boot (disabled Avast) before running, however got one error when attempting to disable task scheduler.  Proceeding with installing Repair, got another error regarding compression failure, and then it errored out when attempting to reset file permissions. 

I copied the errors to a notepad doc which I am attaching.

My PC is a desktop I built several years ago using an Intel Executive MB (DQ45CB) with Intel Core2 Quad 9550 CPU and Seagate SATA HDDs.  Installed Win7 Pro(64bit)//Avast AV//MBAM//

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Agent88:
I have spent many hours on this issue over the past week.  Today I invested a couple of  hours running the AIO Repair pgm.  I found most menu items ran (that I selected) with the exception of 02 (reset file permissions).  01, 03, 04, 07 14, and 16 seemed to run without a hitch.  17 (Repair Windows Update) showed a couple of errors ("Trusted Installer.exe not found", and "proxycfg.exe not recognized", both current user and system).  26(Restore Important Windows Services) produced a plethora of errors, but they all said the same: "not a valid reparse point".

BTW: I ran ComboFix to scan for viruses and it found none.

I gave up and went back to chasing Microsoft Troubleshooters.  With no resolution, looks like I am stuck in the mud.  No Windows Update and IE9.  When I try to install IE10 or 11, it wants to download required updates, but when I attempt to install them manually, they all report either not applicable to this PC or already installed.  IE9 setup reports not installed completely, but it seems to run OK.  I just can't uninstall it or update it.

I may very well install a distro of Linux.  My patience with Windows is about run out, and I  have been using Microsoft OS versions since DOS 1.0.  Windows 7 performed flawlessly for several years until just a week or so ago.  Even with all the issues with Microsoft in the past, I was always able to resolve them eventually.  This bugger has me stumped.

jraju:
Hi, How to uninstall and reinstall are given in this excellent link.
Please follow. The uninstall of program is given down in the page to the link. The installation is given in the top.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/282216-internet-explorer-10-install-uninstall-windows-7-a.html
                       Instead of version, try to install required version, given in the link

Shane:
I would like to connect to you and take a look at why file permissions is failing.

That repair runs the tweaking_rati.exe from the files folder to run the repair as the trusted installer. If that exe failed or something kept it from working then the repair wouldnt even run.

I had one user whos antivirus was deleting the bat files before they could be ran, so once he disabled that he was good.

You are the 2nd person to report the file permissions not running, yet on all my test systems it has worked. So I want to connect and take a look and see if I can find out why it didnt run.

If you are up for it send me an email, shane at tweaking.com :wink:

Shane

Agent88:
jraju: I am a fairly savvy PC user.  I have already attempted to uninstall IE9, and IE10, to no avail.  Neither will my PC install IE10 or IE11.   My problems began with issues in IE11 which I have been using for over a year.  Not being able to resolve these issues, I decided to do a uninstall/reinstall.  Bad idea.  I was able to uninstall IE11, but that's when I ran into Windows Update issues and the inability to get updates or install any other version of IE.  Things are not working as they are supposed to on my crippled system. 

Shane:  I will gladly do this and thank you for taking the challenge.  One thing I will warn you:  It takes 30-60 seconds to get a response from any input before my system responds.  It ran like a rocket right after I ran the AIO the first time, but since then it has slowed to a crawl.

One other note:  During my troubleshooting of Windows 7, I recovered a previous install of Win7 and it was added to my Boot Manager.  I have chosen NOT to use that boot choice because it is dated 1-1-14.  I noticed that if I remove that choice from the boot manager, that it makes things worse, so when I restored msconfig to normal, it returned... so I left it there.  I saw a note somewhere that removing an earlier version of Win7 from the boot mgr will give it startup issues.

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