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Bypassing "turn windows features on and off"
(sorry if this is in the wrong area)
My "turn windows features on and off" box is blank. this is a known error with many 'solutions' that have not worked in my case.
I've reinstalled win7 prof. x64 twice (for a total of 3 installs). somewhere along the line of installing my standard programs 9all of which work, no issues, ect.) my "turn windows features on and off" box will go blank. I tried figuring out what program triggered this behavior by reinstalling and restarting after every program installed and checking the box. it was a different program that triggered the event from reinstall 1 to reinstall 2. so, that's telling me it's not a specific program that's triggering it.
anyway, I don't have 2 hours to reinstall windows and my programs every night, so I'd like to know if there is a workaround (ie registry entries) that I can edit to enable features and programs. from my understanding of how "turn windows features on and off" works, it must only be changing a registry entry or editing a config file that tells the OS not to load those features, as in the documentation, it states that the programs and features are not uninstalled, they're just disabled.
so, is there a group of registry entries or config file that the "turn windows features on and off" dialog edits that I can access manually?
additionally, I'm really not interested in trying to fix the box. I'm interested in turning the TIFF image parser on, IE8 off, and windows search back on(don't ask). if you can't answer my question and you're not sure if it's possible, please refrain from making some reference to a tutorial I've already tried, or some snide comment about how my install must not be legit or a did a "custom install" like it's some sort of voodoo. on the other hand, if you're ABSOLUTELY SURE it can't be done. please feel free to tell me that I'm up that proverbial creek with no paddle.