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Programs missing, Windows repair fails, and Windows upgrade fails
Hello and thanks for reading. Let me begin by saying I've been trying to figure this problem out for hours and hours now, and every solution I find that looks promising, just leads me in circles.
I'm trying my best to avoid a clean install.
The problem started while playing a game, causing a BSOD. After a restart, I noticed some of my programs just didn't boot up, for example Core Temp. I attempted to manually start Core Temp and received the following error: "The system could not find the environment option that was entered."
That problem lead me here: The system could not find the environment option that was entered. - Microsoft Answers
Which, obviously, did nothing for me. I tried to create a new user, but when I click the link in the control panel to do so, nothing happens.
I then tried to repair my windows installation using my disc, and it said it could not find any problems. After searching some more, I found another solution would be to perform an upgrade to my Windows installation to fix the problems.
I put the disc in, nothing happened so I went to the setup.exe directly and got the same error as above. So I then booted in safe mode, and it loaded. I got excited until it said something like "an error prevented a compliance check from completing"
And just to be very clear, my windows 7 is valid, I'd be more than happy to share an image of my newegg receipt or even my box to get that out of the way, as I've seen a lot of flaming towards people who have issues regarding validity.
Well that brought me to a thread on this website where someone said to open an elevated command prompt and run sfc /scannow. I tried doing that and got this error: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program, or, if one is already installed create an association in the default programs control panel."
I've tried some other stuff, but I think you guys get the idea.
Any help would be awesome! I figured I would try as much as possible the next few days to avoid a clean install. I imagine that I have corrupt files and that performing the windows upgrade would reinstall them and do the trick. I'm working really hard to figure out how to make that happen. I was also wondering if there is a way I can plug in a spare drive, install windows on that, then try "upgrading"/repairing the windows on my main drive? Anyways, thanks for reading!