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Microsoft Fix-It solutions
Theog posted the link to the DVD diagnostic tool and there is a bunch of other widely-applicable and similar tools at Microsoft Fix it Solution Center
Definitely worth a visit for anyone who hasn't yet been there.
It looks as if this Fix-It paradigm is being developed and, if so, it could be a great way of hacking a path through the jungle of irrelevant solutions on the Web, a kind of expressway to the specific solution one is looking for. I find that searching for solutions on the Web is very laborious because most of the "hits" that are thrown up are irrelevant however clever one tries to be with the search arguments. For example, if I look for something related to Windows 7 Google throws up masses of stuff from 2004-2007 (before Windows 7 was available) related to Windows server applications and other non-Windows-7 topics. So I restrict the search to stuff 1 year old or less and it still throws up masses of irrelevance. And so on and so forth. So I'm rather pleased at finding this new way of tackling mysterious (to me) Windows 7 problems.
Paddy