Another tip, while fixing Windows....

This wasn't the problem I was having, but it's another helpful hint, and we can't have too many of those, so I used Admin CMD Prompt to do this too. Can't hurt.

I wish there was some way to physically remove I.E. 10 and re-install a fresh clean copy that has all its bits in the right places. Something's wrong with mine, and neither System File Checker nor Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool can see the problem. Both say everything's dandy and there's no problem. So can someone please tell me why Internet Explorer flashes on screen and then immediately vanishes again, unless I'm choosing to run it in the Administrator mode?  It worked OK up until yesterday, and today no go.

And it's built into Windows 8, so all we can do is turn it off or on, and if it has some corrupted files, they stay there, especially if SFC or DISM can't recognize them as faulty. This is the kind of stuff that gives Windows a bad name and makes some of us think about switching to Linux. If it screws up, at least it didn't cost us anything.

If Microsoft wants us to switch to the latest Windows 8.1, it might help if the one we're using worked well enough to inspire our confidence in them, instead of tempting us to invent a few new cuss words while trying to fix it.