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derrick.m.weiss:
Yea its almost like I should just do a reinstall of windows.  Shane I did replace C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery and I am still coming up with numerous errors. see attached

Shane:
Then the best thing to do is a repair install. This way you keep your programs and files while windows gets reinstalled. It is basically doing an upgrade to the same version.

First you will need a Windows 7 disk that SP1 already on it, you can grab an ISO image here (Use a program like ImgBurn to burn the ISO image back to a dvd)
https://sites.google.com/site/linuxlablibrary/windows-iso

Then just follow this guide,
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

Let me know how that goes for you :wink:

Shane

Boggin:
@ Shane - What do you make of these ISOs ? http://getintopc.com/softwares/operating-systems/

Win 7 is at the bottom of Page #3.

I downloaded that one and while it said 16GB of free space was required, the downloaded file was showing as a little under 4GB.

The Win 7 tool created a bootable disk and the computer booted up with it okay, but I only got so far to navigating to the RE before it gave me a compatibility error message.

I'm not sure how an ISO can have both 32 and 64 versions of Windows on it but wondered if the download would recognize my 64 bit system and just download that aspect of it, although that didn't appear to be the case.

Anyway, if you have time to check it out I'd appreciate your views as you can only get a Win 7 SP1 ISO download from MS if and when it will accept a valid retail key and an alternative site would be a boon just for repair purposes.

derrick.m.weiss:
Shane,

Every time I click the link for the iso it says the page requested cannot be provided

Boggin:
I'm downloading the Win 7 one now in IE 10 without any problems - which browser are you using ?

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