1053'd after Reinstalling Windows backup Service

after using Brink's Tutorial I recovered my backup service.

But it still is not working, I'm getting 1053'd when I try to start the service manually. There was a particular hotfix for 1053's but MS has removed all of the hotfixes for Windows 7 and I am not sure which Hotfix applies to that issue. I downloaded all of the hotfixes I could using WHdownloader, but it does not really say what each one is for, or if in fact the hotfix I require is in the batch I was able to download.

While I am at this, I want to ask if there is a similar issue that prevents my OptionalFeatures.exe CP from populating, is there a service missing for that too? Images:

Blank Windows Backup CP:



Blank Windows Features CP (OptionalFeatures.exe)



My 1053 is the most important issue though, I checked all of the dependencies, and they are all running. So I don;w know why Windows backup is not starting. If there is a relationship between the 2 CP's not working though, with a common fix, that would be great. Not really willing to do an In Place install yet. I need to backup my system before performing maintenance on my SSD.

iko22 said:

Specific Hotfixes are eventually included in Rollup Updates. So, if you have the Updates, then you are likely covered already.

Had you tried System Restore, and Restored the PC to an earlier point in time?

Alternatively, do a SFC /Scannow file check.

If I did a system restore I would lost about 30 programs I recently installed that were difficult to set up (I'm not sure if I actually have a backup that was made before this issue started, but it would also put my system back into the broken state it was in last week), I have used SFC /SCANNOW and also the Windows 7 DISM. I also ran a fix for any missing services. I'll run those again right now, so I'll be gone for a few hours...

Ok, ran SFC, ran DISM, DISM found 454 NON-Fixable issues, SFC, found NOTHING, like it always finds. So, basically it was a waste of time.

XweAponX said:

Ok, ran SFC, ran DISM, DISM found 454 NON-Fixable issues, SFC, found NOTHING, like it always finds. So, basically it was a waste of time.

None of those did anything useful, so I ran my top secret paid program which has this method for replacing all corrupted DLLs:



I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post an image of that program, it's a popular program that's been around since XP. It has a lot of useful things all bundled together. It is free to use for 30 days though, it simply does not have a free version like Tweakbit PCRepairKit. It's a lot like Auslogic, but Auslogic cack is dangerous, I used it once for a simple scan and clean, and that's when all my problems started.

For this utility though, "Skip Hidden Files" and "Repair only MS files" is the default, and this task should never be run with those disabled. It deletes every DLL in the System32/Syswow64 folders and replaces them with fresh copies extracted from the... I'm not sure where they come from. An internal WinRE image or WIM file? Not sure where Windows stores this stuff. It only took about a minute to replace all of the system files, after that I rebooted and then opened up my last Recovery Image. It opened right up. But it was a corrupt recovery image so I began making a new one, starting with a new recovery/restore DVD:



And it worked!



So now I'm going to make a new backup on my External SATA.



So... Your advice was half-correct, it was just that the normal process we use to fix stuff

Code:

SFC /scannow

and

Code:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

basically didn't do anything else, I had run both of those yesterday and SFC did indeed fix a few things. But it did not fix the 1053 issue. Thanks for the suggestion, though, it pointed me in the right direction

I'm not going to mark this solved quite yet though, maybe someone can figure out how to get my OptionalFeatures.exe control panel to load up.