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Originally Posted by BetterRed
If you have Win 7 you can do a repair install (aka in-place upgrade) without destroying other programs - I've used it several times (on other peoples computers) with a couple of exceptions (firefox was one), everything remained as it was - all the installed software, settings etc. No data was lost.
There's an ISO with SP1 slipstreamed at MS. Takes a while - and of course you have to download and apply all the post SP1 updates, There's a good tutorial at the Windows7 Forum.
I ran it once on my system, it didn't fix my problem - then I realised what wasn't working was a so-called feature - all I had to do was to turn it off and on again  . But Windows ran quite a lot faster after the in-place upgrade.
Win 10 has something similar, can't remember what its called.
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What a lot of work. The equivalent would take 15 minutes on my system.