Well, after all that, I decided to do a clean reinstall of Win7. I have all the disks, and in many ways it would be easier set things up than to constantly fiddle with fixes. All the importing data is on other drives in separate partitions, so the worst that can happen is that I end up using only Linux on this PC. I have two other PCs that are dual boot Win7/Mint, so I can still carry on.
Gah, hopefully I won't be doing this again in a hurry.
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win 8 is much faster with the disk
ReplyDeleteIt may be, though I'm not sure I can install it. I tried downloading that and installing it earlier in the year but it didn't seem to take. I'll play it safe for now.
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