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I have broken W 10 by trying to take ownership of C:\ please help!
Ok so earlier I did something completely stupid, I tried to take ownership of C:\ in user permissions and changed from trustedinstalller to my username as I was having admin privilege problems and nothing was working.
Well turns out that is a very bad idea (the other site I read this on gave no warning for doing it on C:\) and now, whilst windows is working and all my files still remain, I cannot use the start bar, Microsoft edge won't even open and the start button won't work either I also had a warning that recycle bin had corrupted but that seems to be fixed now for some reason.
Now, failing there being a way to fix this (I have yet to find a fix despite numerous searches on google and the ones I have found won't work) I am probably looking at a reset of the OS :-(.
Now this is where I need help, I don't want to have to reinstall a bunch of steam games or setup my game emulators again, I also I don't want to have to lose my files folders and installed programs like my custom Intel rapid storage tech which is the only one that doesn't give me bluescreens.
Is there anyway I can literally backup all my data and then reinstall! windows and then run the backup so it all goes back to exactly how it was before? With all my reg edits and old files, all my saved windows setting etc?
Or is there a way I can repair windows without losing anything? Literally just a repair of windows itself and all my programs and files and folders will stay in tact?
Please help!