Repair Install

Hello Jim,

I'm happy to hear that you are back up and running again without losing anything, but sorry it took a clean install.

I agree with the other person that helped you. Registry cleaning programs are to be avoided at all cost. There are just to many out there that are nothing more than snake oil that claim to fix everything including the kitchen sing that only cause damage to Windows usually leading to have to reinstall.

Registry cleaners that are over aggressive in reporting what should be removed from the registry is often the problem. The next problem is the user allowing these results to be deleted from the registry without knowing what is safe or not safe to allow to delete. The program doesn't really help to let the user know what is safe or not, and the ones that do may not always be correct. We all know what happens if you delete something from the registry that shouldn't have been deleted. You'll find yourself with an unstable/crashing Windows and/or other programs.

Hello Barnum,

Yeah, that disc set would only allow you to do a factory install of Windows 7.

You could see if doing the items listed in the blue Note box under step 4 in OPTION TWO if the tutorial below may be able to allow SFC to repair the files afterwards.

If not, then please post back with your sfcdetails.txt file from OPTION THREE to see what SFC says it cannot repair, and if it's anything to worry about. Are you having any other issues?

SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

If you like, go ahead and post back with a sfcdetails.txt file after running a sfc /scannow command, and I'll be happy to see what it says it cannot repair.

I have a Toshiba C660D but when booting the laptop it gets passed the welcome screen but it then says "windows explorer crashed" and prevents me from doing anything else i.e. No desktop icons load

It seems like someone turned off the laptop half way through a windows update.

Spec:

Toshiba C660D
Windows 7 64Bit

Do you recommend a repair install?

Can you boot into Safe Mode and while there, initiate System Restore?

Lesson #1: Never interrupt Windows Updates, or any update for that matter.

mangoh said:

I have a Toshiba C660D but when booting the laptop it gets passed the welcome screen but it then says "windows explorer crashed" and prevents me from doing anything else i.e. No desktop icons load

It seems like someone turned off the laptop half way through a windows update.

Spec:

Toshiba C660D
Windows 7 64Bit

Do you recommend a repair install?

Do a "system restore" ... eventually from "win7 recovery environment"

System Restore