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Hi team, not a complaint, more a report for whatever it is worth. I upgraded to version 4.0 pro, then when I restarted the software I received an update notification to version 4.0.1 and when I opened the update tool (well, it opened for me) and I hit the download button, I received an unknown error message in the dialogue box and the download failed due to downloader error. I tried restarting the software and manually invoking the update tool but it's the same, so I am downloading a new setup file as I write this. It might be because everyone is hitting the update server, but I thought I'd report it anyway.

Cheers,

Dave.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Initialisation error
« on: May 05, 2017, 09:50:16 pm »
Hi gang.

Just downloaded the latest update (first using the pro update feature, then by uninstalling and reinstalling) and when I try to run the software all I get is an initialisation error in win-repair.exe as per the attachment. Any known issues with the latest build or is my Windows 10 pro 32-bit b0rked? I usually have the memory optimiser part of it running in the tray no problems but even that won't start now unless I manually fire it up. I can't open the main gui at all. The program has run flawlessly with no problems since I first installed and purchased it so I'm not sure what's going on with it now.

Cheers, Dave.

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Hi team. I have used the pro version of Windows Repair and had a good success rate with it over the past 6 months since purchasing a license. However, the other day I had a machine in that defied all attempts at repair and I ended up archiving, formatting and reinstalling.

The history of the machine is it is a 2-year old machine running a 64-bit version of Windows 10 home upgraded from Windows 8.1 during the great giveaway. After a failed update (according to the client) the box booted but the start menu and pop-ups invoked by clicking on the volume control, network icon or other Windows-based tray apps would not show. MS Office was also buggered, with an error dialogue showing when clicking the Word (2013) or Excel shortcuts in the taskbar that a dll was missing, corrupted or not designed to run on this version of Windows. The dlls files in question (two) were present but were 0 bytes, so obviously due to be overwritten by the update (perhaps) but not replaced for whatever reason. Replacing these dlls from a known-good machine (mine) running the same version of Windows and Office threw up the same errors.

I tried the four 'usual' repairs for Windows 8/10 start menu breaking but none worked (the DISM fix and the Get app fix run in PowerShell, creating a new user profile and resetting certain registry key permissions). As a last resort I ran Windows Repair, including a SFC and pre-scan variables scans  (which found errors and repaired them) except in the case of SFC it found errors in the files but was unable to replace them, which turns out to be a common symptom that many others had with Windows 10 start menu problems.

I thought I'd report this here as like I said, I've had good results in the past with start menu errors running Windows Repair but this time, after two repair runs (I tried another one after some other changes to the OS) I had no luck. Hence I'm very happy with the software and it is a very useful tool for me and worth five times the cost. It just didn't help in this case.

Cheers,

Dave

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