Missing / damaged files in Win 7

At least, that's what the Micro$oft tech support weenie said.

I'm running Win 7 on a HP/Compaq laptop. 3GB of ram.

This all started when I got the following when I opened a window for Windows Update. It said:

#elementModuleHeaderText#
#actionCustomInstallImportantText#
#actionCustomInstallOptionalText#

and then there was a button (which normally has text in it) that was completely blank.

Surely there is something missing.

The tech weenie ran a program called AUTORUNS.exe, and then said that there were "many" files that were missing or damaged ... most were in the Temp directory and were named similar to:

{4AEF3E06-158F-47EF-904C-0200E1D572D6}

I think I don't care about them.
Some were CODEXs for videos and were listed as over 13 yrs old. I know I don't care about them.

Some others were:

rdpclip
aspnet_state

My Diagnosis is I'm missing some data file somewhere or maybe a registry entry.

M/$oft wanted $150 to load me up with a virus and crudware program and monitoring plan that would "most likely" fix the problem. I declined.

SO.... How do I fix the problem, eh?

Thanks for your help.

Ran the first cmd. Got Error 87. The StartComponentCleanup option is not recognized in this context.

Ran the 2nd cmd. Got Error 87. The RestoreHealth option is not recognized in this context.

dism.logs are attached

the SFC cmd did not find any integrity violations

The System update readiness program generates an error:

Error 0x80073afc
Resource Loader failed to find MUI file

I looked that up and it appears to be a MultiLanguage User Interface file -- but no idea where to get another one.

I ran the SFC /scannow several time in a row. Nothing was reported as invalid or an error.