I'm a bit confused. Did you try to reinstall (restore) ES from the backup and not from the setup file? If yes then your suspicion about a missing file or files is probably correct. I am fairly confident that ES puts files in multiple locations not just the main install folder. If the main folder is all you backed up then it's very possible that some critical files did NOT get restored, maybe from a location like C:\Windows or the System32 subfolder.
It's interesting to me that Stevecsd2 gets the same error. Hmmm...
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