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Permission are mesed up. Need help to fix it.

Somehow, permissions on my windows 7 home premium machine is all messed up.  Several programs won't work now because of incorrect permissions on some system directory.

This showed up after a system restore.   I have managed to add write permisions to most of the places that need it, however, there is still some unknown place that isn't right and I can't find it.

Is there some utility to restore system permissions on everything, or can I reinstall windows OVER my existing copy without having to reload all my programs.   I put in my windows disk and it just says "Install now".   This makes me nervous.  I know you used to be able to do this with XP (don't know about vista).

Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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This is happening to me right now. I found out how to fix individual files / folders.

How to Fix:

Right click on what you want to open / run.

Click Share With.

Then click Specific People...

After that this should come up:

Just follow the pictures, too hard/ long to explain:

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Just wanted to let you guys know how things turned out.   I did both things.  Most everything was fixed, but there were a couple of programs that just refused to operate and I thought I had changed permissions on everything, but to no avail. 
I ended up finally just reloading my whole OS.   Pain but I needed to make sure all parts of the system were working, and I was spending more time on trying to repair things than it did to reload.  I am almost done loading all my software.  One pain to note.   It appears that since I already registered my MS Office products, I can't do that over the internet now.  I have to call.   That isn't right.  Oh well.

Thanks to both of you.

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