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    the chances are high that the users mix 32 & 64 bit files and this causes errors. don't do it
    – magicandre1981
    Commented Mar 5, 2017 at 7:42
  • you did not understand, my solution is failsafe, since you cannot mix any file, you just copy it to the same folder in your current windows install. And you cannot mix 32 with 64 since there are in different folders (syswow64/system32).
    – George Dima
    Commented Mar 5, 2017 at 12:22
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    no, you can still get issues. the install.wim includes the RTM data. if you have installed updates, the data are newer and you replace them with RTM files and this also causes issues. don't do this quick & dirty crap. repair install/inplace upgrade keeps all settings ;)
    – magicandre1981
    Commented Mar 7, 2017 at 17:26
  • wrong, if you do Windows repair from install media it will copy the files from the media, which are original not updated ones. and will also replace files that are already good. using my method you could just copy the missing files (reported by SFC) and all will be fine.
    – George Dima
    Commented Mar 8, 2017 at 22:32
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    no, i get your point, but in my case it worked, it was a simpler solution than reseting windows with a disk repair , and also SFC /scanow reports versions of the missing files, and in my case all of them were never updated by Windows Update, because just a few system files have updates in the Windows timeline, most of them remains stock version for lifetime.
    – George Dima
    Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 23:06