Faulty Windows after 'successful' System Image restore to new hard drive.

This question posted as ' Cut down Win 7 after System Image restore to new HDD'  in the community but no satisfactory answer.  Please may I ask here.
Win reported a successful System Image creation of C: on my E: drive.  C was replaced with a new 2TB drive (previously 1.5Tb) and the image restored.  Win reported 'successful' restoration of C: immediately followed by the common 'You must restart
your computer to apply these changes...' which I assumed was just Win taking note of the new drive.
On running, everything seems fine at first but you start to notice faults.  Most importantly Win doesn't seem to recognise itself.  If you start some of the functions in control panel (eg System Manager) you get a message from User Account
Control  'Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?'.
Windows Live Mail won't work.  You get a message 'Windows Live Mail could not be started.  Closing Windows Live Mail.  Your calendar contains corrupt data that is forcing Windows Live Mail to close (0x8E5E0247).'  I have never used the
calendar function so there shouldn't be any data there.
Browsing history in IE is there on very first opening but is immediately lost and never recovered.  Favourites are intact but all login details are lost.  All your internet feeds are lost.  Message 'The feed download was interrupted.....' 
Trying to create new feeds is unsuccessful.     When you try and download something the usual IE message 'Do you want to run or save ... ' comes up at the bottom of the screen but the buttons do not work so you cannot get any downloads.
Installed non-Windows applications do seem to run OK though I usually switch back to the original drive pretty quick.
2 x Dell Precision T5500 desktops, both reasonably high spec and more or less identical though one is nearly 3 years old and the other approaching 4.  Both Win7 x64.  The fault identical on both machines.  I have had these drives in and out
so many times trying to solve this there is a real risk of damaging the disk or lead.  Can anyone suggest what might be wrong or how Win could be fixed??  I assume 2Tb is ok.  Is it normal to get a restart message after a 'Successful' image
restore message.  I've tried cloning the drive as well but got exactly the same messages and faults.  Next I was going to try creating the image after running something like EndItAll and  then seeing if the image would restore more successfully
to a different 1.5Tb drive though I don't see this should make any difference.  'Clutching at straws' comes to mind.
Thanks.

Hello,  thanks for your interest.
Yes, principally it's the Windows features which are faulty.  It's not that they don't work at all (except for win live mail which gives that message about being forced to shutdown), rather that there are faulty features.
All of the functions in control panel, for example, work OK. But when you select them there is this message from user account control ' Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer'.   It
then goes on to give details the oddity being that the publisher is listed as 'Unknown'.  This is the standard User Account Control dialogue but the strange thing is that it is not recognising the functions coming with windows.    If you
click yes it goes on to open device manager or whichever one it was that you wanted and the function works quite normally.  
Non windows applications (including Microsoft Office) run normally without the user account control dialogue.  The only oddity I noticed today was that one program seemed to have lost it's licencing information and gave a message that the
month trial period was up with an invitation to licence.
Today I tried to restore an image to a replacement 1.5TB disc. (i.e. the same size as the image was made from). The whole process went quite smoothly and Windows seemed to be working without the faults on the replacement drive.     So
having shown that the image must be OK I tried swapping the 1.5 drive for the 2Tb drive and repeating the restore from the same image.   Immediately on running, Windows gave me the message 'You must restart the computer to apply these changes....
(which it had not done for the 1.5Tb restoration) and all the old faults were back.   The message might be quite innocent and simply indicate that Windows is taking note or the different size drive but it seems to be associated with the arrival of
the faults. (The new drive is formatted as for the 1.5Tb with C: and Recovery partitions and the extra space left unallocated).
No, I have not tried Reinstalling Windows Live Mail yet. Today I was working on the newer machine and my mail is on the older one. It is odd that both machines show exactly the same problem. It must be something to do with the move to a different size disk.   I
guess I would have to reinstall IE as well as that was the other application that was really faulty.
Yes, that is the thread I tried in the community but I didn't get any solution.

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