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corrupt dotnet - no amount of reinstall / repair helps
ok - this has been covered here before, for example
dot net 4 problem
but there's no solutions, and perhaps there's more wisdom around now as the OS has matured.
e.g. the programs depending on dotnet (not exactly sure which version) on my win7 ultimate laptop stopped working. i tried reinstal/repair of the various versions. reported by asoft's utility:
1.1
2.0
3.0
3.5
4.5.2
are all there.
then i tried to repair install (in-place-upgrade) of the OS. which helped a bit. now i get more descriptive error messages. but dotnet apps still don't run.
also - i have ran the dotnet repair tools that ms provides.
so - what to do next? how about manually deleting everything pertaining to dotnet from registry / its subfolder? would the system still boot?
any wisdom out there?