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Hi SweetiePie,
A clean install is definitely the way to go if you have the time and all of your reinstall materials available. After upgrading 4 PCs I went back and did a clean install on all of them. As I said before, sometimes an “in-place repair-install” does not fix everything and I’m skeptical that it will fix the registry entry that I think is at the bottom of your issue. That said it’s definitely the quickest and easiest fix to try and you do that first if time is an issue. As long as you have a backup and can do a clean install if needed you have nothing to lose.
If you decide to do a clean install be aware the even that can sometimes have problems, so before you start reinstalling programs use SFC /scannow several times to be sure that the install went correctly (see the tutorial for SFC/DISM).
Last edited by SoFine409; 23 Sep 2016 at 21:39.