Repair Install of Windows 7

My windos is acting so sporadically, freezing up, taking forever to open a site. I can get to mail but then cannot open it. I don't know what else to do but try another repair install. I cannot find a tutorial on it. Can anyone help:? Thanks.

Pretty simple actually. Some people make a big deal out of it but it is pretty straight forward, it just takes a while to complete.
Read this article from Microsoft.
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 & Windows Server 2008 R2
Regards
Randy

Originally Posted by Trouble

Pretty simple actually. Some people make a big deal out of it but it is pretty straight forward, it just takes a while to complete.
Read this article from Microsoft.

Regards
Randy

I had found this one by googling it. Are they basically the same. Yours seems shorter

How to run a Repair Install Windows 7 | Captain Debugger

Seems that they are very similar, just one having more detail. The Captain knows what he is talking about so if you are more comfortable using one as opposed to the other, then do what makes you the most comfortable.

Randy how close does the install disk have to match the installed version you're trying to repair? I mean with SP1 and hot fixes. I know in XP your install disk had to be very to close what was installed. If you were a couple month behind then the repair wouldn't finish. That's how I got involved with slip streaming.
Joe

Originally Posted by Joe S

Randy how close does the install disk have to match the installed version you're trying to repair? I mean with SP1 and hot fixes. I know in XP your install disk had to be very to close what was installed. If you were a couple month behind then the repair wouldn't finish. That's how I got involved with slip streaming.
Joe

Good question Joe and I would suspect that trying to do an upgrade / inplace repair on a system that had SP1 already installed with install media that was only the basic RTM might produce an upgrade error something regarding you already having a newer version. But that would be easily worked around by obtaining the install media with SP1 integrated already from here Download Windows 7 Integrated With SP1 ISO – Official Direct Download Links

Originally Posted by Trouble

Good question Joe and I would suspect that trying to do an upgrade / inplace repair on a system that had SP1 already installed with install media that was only the basic RTM might produce an upgrade error something regarding you already having a newer version. But that would be easily worked around by obtaining the install media with SP1 integrated already from here Download Windows 7 Integrated With SP1 ISO – Official Direct Download Links

I went and backed up my data on my external hard drive. I decided to just take a look at what was on there, and outside of the first set of backups which the other forum walked me through many months ago, the rest are not backups. Like I don't have the backup of what I just did. It just went to a restore point, didn't back up data on the external drive at all. Here all along I thought I was backing up. Can you tell me how to do it. I wanted to do one before doing the repair install. Thanks.

Repair install or system restore does not touch the user data - unless you muck it up. But backing up your data is always a good idea. Just copy/paste it to an external device (disk or USB stick). It is a bit easier and more precise with that: Add Copy To / Move To on Windows 7 or Vista Right-Click Menu - How-To Geek

Originally Posted by whs

Repair install or system restore does not touch the user data - unless you muck it up. But backing up your data is always a good idea. Just copy/paste it to an external device (disk or USB stick). It is a bit easier and more precise with that: Add Copy To / Move To on Windows 7 or Vista Right-Click Menu - How-To Geek

I have everything backed up by going and looking through my data. Is there a way to save that data or the positions of that data, so next time I just hit backup and it will know what to backup?? Not that it takes that long manually, just so I don't forget anything one of the times around. Also, how do you create an "image" of your hard drive and is it something you would want to do?
Oh yeah, how do you backup bookmarks?
Thanks.

Okay, here goes the repair install!!!

Originally Posted by whs

Repair install or system restore does not touch the user data - unless you muck it up. But backing up your data is always a good idea. Just copy/paste it to an external device (disk or USB stick). It is a bit easier and more precise with that: Add Copy To / Move To on Windows 7 or Vista Right-Click Menu - How-To Geek

I made an image of my computer and when I was all done I went to check it out and it gave me this: You don't currently have permission to access this folder. What does that mean and how do I change it?