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General Computer Support / Re: Windows Mail
« on: January 31, 2016, 09:28:59 pm »
Then it isnt your system or Windows mail, looks like you got hit with a ton of email, I am betting it is all spam.

You may want to try cleaning some of it up on yahoos side so that your email client doesnt have to try and download all those messages.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows Repair task 04 (Register System Files) clobbering Vista VSS??
« on: January 31, 2016, 09:26:46 pm »
Sorry for taking so long to reply. Every time I think I am caught up, 9 more things will hit me.

As you fine more info on this it might be a good idea to email me directly, I try to answer emails every day during the week if I am not out on jobs fixing computers. So I reply to email faster than I do forum posts :-)

Shane

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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: Windows 10 works again but ...
« on: January 31, 2016, 09:08:13 pm »
Yeap, WR added those, it is done first before the repairs. I run VMware and dont have that problem though. What are you using for your virtual machines?

There is a lot of repairs where for some reason on some systems permissions applied to those groups dont always hold or work like they should, and by adding them to administrators they work again. Each one of those should have administrator access anyways so in the 3 or 4 years I have had that in the program I have never seen it cause any problems.

So I am curious to why those being in the admin group would have caused your vm from running. So if tell me what software your using for it and what version I can go do some googling on it and see if I can find an answer :-)

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows Repair Problems
« on: January 31, 2016, 09:02:55 pm »
If it isnt showing up in the bios then you either have a bad drive or a bad cable. There is no way any software can hide hardware from the bios itself, you are not even in Windows at that point.

Also check the power connectors, if they are fulty and the drive isnt getting power it will not show up in the bios as well. :wink:

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows Update - Only Repair Selected - Running over an Hour
« on: January 31, 2016, 09:00:49 pm »
The checking for updates can take a very very long time depending on the CPU speed of the system. On older systems or systems with slower cpus, such as a lot of these hybrid laptop/tablets coming out with only 1.6 ghz cpus the check for updates takes a long long time.

On a fresh install of Windows i had the check for updates take 12 hours, I had to leave it overnight and went to bed. On newer systems it is much faster.

When you run my windows repair tool the windows updates database is cleared out, so it has to be rebuilt, so no matter what the first check for updates after the repair will take a bit. But after that the database of what is installed on the system is rebuilt and future check for updates is a lot faster!

Shane

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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: Suggesting of new sub forum on prescan missing files in main forum
« on: January 31, 2016, 08:56:44 pm »
Done :-)

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Tweaking Windows Repair Pro
« on: January 31, 2016, 08:55:29 pm »
Any time someone needs their key codes sent to them again they can always use http://resend.tweaking.com

Posting in the forum isnt the way to do it as I cant and wont post that info on here :-)

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: "An error has occurred, Not all of the features were successfully changed."
« on: January 31, 2016, 08:52:43 pm »
Not sure, I normally just go and disable the service and I am good. I dont try to uninstall it as some programs depend on it to be installed. With the service off though you still get what you are looking for :-)

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: off line install
« on: January 31, 2016, 08:38:53 pm »
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Can I download windows repair to a flash drive and install it on my laptop? I tried but only got the files and the program itself isnt running.

What do you mean exactly? On my site I have the installer and I have the portable version. Both are the same program, the installer simply makes shortcuts and such and nothing more. The portable is a zip file that you extract all the files to a folder and you can run that from a thumb drive easily as well.

You say you got the files but the program isnt running, thats what i am confused on and not sure what you mean. :wink:

Shane

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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: Trivial problem!
« on: January 31, 2016, 08:36:51 pm »
Thats a hard one, none of my repairs touch the games, and it could always be something with the game from an update, hard to tell.

Best thing to do is to uninstall it, reboot and then reinstall it from the store, that way you know it is fresh and the way it should be. If it keeps happening after that it may just be something with the game, if that fixes it I wouldnt have a clue what would have caused it so I wouldnt even know where to look lol

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: installed and ran tweaking now desktop screen black
« on: January 31, 2016, 08:34:40 pm »
I helped this user through email. His screen wasnt black, his wallpaper was simply gone. I got him all fixed up by simply setting the performance options in windows under the advanced tab in the system properties.

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows Mail
« on: January 31, 2016, 08:32:23 pm »
Are you able to log into your email through a web browser? That way you can log into it and see if there really is that many messages.

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: New windows 7 install will not update (multiple computers)
« on: January 31, 2016, 08:31:29 pm »
Sorry for the late reply. I get so busy with my computer repair business, the websites, forums, customers calling me and then my wife and 5 kids that it has come really hard for me to get to the forums everyday.

It would be a lot better for you to email me directly on this one. I did get your email for the google drive space, of course when I got it I didnt know who it was from since I dont know your email by heart so i deleted the email lol

The problem with google drive is it is a 5.96 GB file and if the connection breaks I need to be able to resume where I left off, normally I use FTP for this.

Shoot me an email and we will fig something out :-)

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Does Tweaking work for you, B/C it does not work for me?
« on: January 31, 2016, 08:26:55 pm »
The safe mode tweaking does is the same, it just calls the bcdedit command to enable safe mode on bootup. It is the very same safe mode as F8. My program calls the safe mode with networking.

If you are able to go into normal safe mode and it works better than it could be something with the network drivers in safe mode or always a possible firewall or even a virus, hard to tell.

To be on the safe side give ADWCleaner a run and also malwarebytes anit root kit (This is different than their normal program)

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: If Windows 7 fails to complete boot up in normal or safe mode
« on: January 22, 2016, 01:25:35 pm »
Well i tried to make it easy lol

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: New windows 7 install will not update (multiple computers)
« on: January 22, 2016, 01:24:53 pm »
I install more windows 7 machines then I do 10 by a far amount.

I made a new Windows 7 setup disk with all the updates up to last month already on it and included drivers for USB support for intel and a few others into the setup on it as well. I had a stubborn laptop with USB3 that wouldnt work, new setup cd I made did the trick.

I can hook you up with the tools I used to make it, but since the setup cd is set to do it for home, home pre, pro and ultimate it took about 2 to 3 hours to compile each. I then also have a lot of drivers on it as well to help save time.

The image compressed is about 5 GB and so I put it on a usb drive and install it from there. Then if I want to do the Windows 10 upgrade for free I use the usb stick I have with the latest ISO they use and just run it right from the USB stick instead of downloading it, it updates like it should. i also make sure to let the Windows 10 setup download the updates for the install.

Feel free to email me and I can hook you up with the tools to make a more up to date windows 7 install, or I could try to hook you up with my custom image but not sure where the crap I would store a 5gb file privately lol

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 8 wont boot past repair
« on: January 22, 2016, 01:17:38 pm »
Repair screen?

Any chance you could post a screen shot of picture of it so i can see what you are seeing?

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows Repair task 04 (Register System Files) clobbering Vista VSS??
« on: January 22, 2016, 01:16:54 pm »
Interesting. For me, in vista in my vmware I was able to replicate the problem every time I registered the system files and was able to fix it every time I ran the vss repair.

Then when i made the changes to the order of the dlls in the register system files i was no longer able to replicate the problem.

Of course one thing I didnt do, since my vista is bare bones with no 3rd party programs I ran the repairs in normal mode and not safe mode. Not sure if that would have anything to do with it.

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: windows 10-15 minutes to start &shutdwn- Win icon and sortcuts stop working
« on: January 22, 2016, 01:13:52 pm »
During the time of startup and shutdown is the hard drive light fully lit up?

Once the system is booted does anything that requires reading or writing to the drive seem really slow as well? Opening any program would do it as it has to read the program from the drive.

Also have you do a bad sector check on the hard drive yet?

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Win 7 with no permissions
« on: January 22, 2016, 01:11:58 pm »
Do you have the UAC on or off?

I have seen an odd bug in the UAC where it messes up and doesnt work right. But it is easy to fix it. You just go to the UAC options in the control panel under user accounts. Chnage the current setting to something else, anything, then hit apply or ok. Then go back into it and turn it back to the setting you had it at and then reboot.

I had multiple users who, on windows 7, had the UAC turned off. Then one day they get a hold of me and say how they dont have permissions to do things. It was the UAC not staying off like it was suppose to. Had them do what I said above and it fixed them right up.

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: If Windows 7 fails to complete boot up in normal or safe mode
« on: January 22, 2016, 01:08:25 pm »
I made a page showing different ways you can restore the registry
http://www.tweaking.com/articles/pages/tweaking_com_registry_backup_online_help,3.html

If restoring the registry doesnt help you could have windows repair try to work, if you cant get safe mode up you will have to run it in normal windows, just make sure any AV is turned off and try to close any background programs you can, then make sure the program does ALL the repairs.

Without knowing what the problem is on the computer WR may or may not help, but it is worth a shot :-)

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Win10 x64 10586.63 modern apps are broken
« on: January 22, 2016, 12:52:43 pm »
Given the extreme number of bugs I have seen and the fact that the updates are coming so often means that they have a huge list of bugs and problems they are working through, and so if it is on their list of things to get done they may have not gotten to it yet.

Odd thing is you would thing someone in MS who does the programming would have seen the bug themselves when they run the powershell command, if they ever run that command. Chances are they have an in house tool for installing the apps and dont us powershell, which might exmplain why it seems to be so low on their radar.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry backup failed: "The last scheduled backup had errors or failed"
« on: January 22, 2016, 12:50:45 pm »
Looks like this is what failed

[18/01/2016 - 11:59:35 PM] Backing Up File: C:\Users\DefaultAppPool\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat
[18/01/2016 - 11:59:35 PM] Result: Failed - Error: -1 (API Reg Save Failed (), Tried File Copy, File In use, Cannot copy.)

[18/01/2016 - 11:59:35 PM] Backing Up File: C:\Users\DefaultAppPool\ntuser.dat
[18/01/2016 - 11:59:35 PM] Result: Failed - Error: -1 (API Reg Save Failed (), Tried File Copy, File In use, Cannot copy.)

If using the fallback method that failed because the registry files where in use, looks like those are for a program so you can just uncheck those in the backup to have it skip them or if ou want them backed up you will need to use VSS instead of the fallback method. But those registry files are not very important so you should be fine with just skipping them :wink:

C:\Users\DefaultAppPool is related to IIS if you have it installed.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: MD4 hash doesn't match HELP!!!
« on: January 22, 2016, 12:44:59 pm »
Ah, that file shouldnt be in part of the check because users are able to add their own excludes to it. I will update that in the next update. Did you change that file? If not can you send it to me so i can see what is different about it?

For now just open the file_list.txt file in the program folder and remove the line that shows files\reg_permissions_excludes.txt

Then save the file and reopen the program :-)

The point of the MD4 check on the files is in the past I have had users who had bad sectors on their drive or had a antivirus mess with some of the files and the files would become corrupt, which of course wouldnt bold well for the repairs. So the MD4 check is to make sure the files didnt get changed.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Unhandled exception in Repair_Windows.exe (SOLVED)
« on: January 22, 2016, 12:41:03 pm »
Great to hear :-)

Shane

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