Windows 10: Updates, Notepad, and DISM not working.

I noticed that paint and notepad were not working. Notepad didn't launch at all, and paint said something like "unable to create file." I tried uninstalling and installing in the optional features, but it failed to reinstall. In addition, in windows update, it always says "Download error "0x80070002". I did the sfc scan and it said it fixed corrupted files, but nothing changed. DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth failed at around 70% and says source files were not found" I downloaded the windows 10 iso and upgraded to the same version 21H1, and it too gave an error and failed. It said

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How to get damn DISM to work?

Thx guys, I'll compress this data into a blog post. For all the so called guides I've read, not a single one mentioned it has to be WIM file (some listed even ESD which clearly doesn't work) or that certain ISO images don't work with DISM.

After I've done DISM thingie, SFC also managed to repair stuff. Which is what I've needed here.

 

Programs not working

In post 26 there were steps listed to fix the operating system corruption.
Are you able to follow them?
In post 29 was the suggested dism repair command.

 

Notepad on Windows 7\

Suggestion would be uninstall then new install on Win7. Maybe an older version would work better? A list, maybe Version 7?
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