WARNING: Failed to get store name from identity name with return code 2 for component cxraptor_fm1216mk5_ibv64.inf and file cxraptor_FM1216MK5_IBV64.inf. Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 - amd64 When using the hive from the similar machine I soon realized, that while I could get SFC scan and Windows update to work, the updates processes would take ages to run, and when running SFCfix, all I could see was something along the lines of: By this time I had already found SFCfix by sysnative, and found it to be of great use when troubleshooting. First I tried getting the hive from a very similar machine, but with much newer Win7 installation. Nevertheless, by following some tutorials on sysnative and elsewhere, I thought that there would be no harm done by doing something about the hive.

That was the reason why SFC scan wouldn't work at all for the previous times I have tried to investigate my Win7 problems. I have now realized that I was missing my COMPONENTS registry hive for around a year. I still prefer to learn about Windows 7 fixes myself though, which is one of the reasons I have not wanted to do that, but instead just tried to troubleshoot the issue. I know I would've already been able to make a Windows 7 in-place upgrade several times, and they would've most likely solved my issues. Now it seems that I am going to need Win7 for the forseeable future, and will continue dual booting it. For several months I had been neglecting Windows updates on my machine, as I thought I would be upgrading to Windows 10 or Linux or something else soon anyway. I have been trying to fix this issue myself now for a while now.

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