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Tweaking.com Support & Help / win 7 major screw up after running windows repair v4.9.0 pro

« on: June 22, 2020, 05:33:47 pm »

I have recently been having AMD driver issues so I decided to do a clean install of the driver, then run all repairs using windows repair v4.9.0 pro in safe mode.
Did all pre-repair steps except I forgot to back up the registry.
My system is win 7 x64 SP1 ultimate.

After the repair, my OS's folder icon associations are completely messed up.  They are normal in safe mode, but in regular mode, the following issues suddenly appear:
When I open 'My Computer', none of the drives shows up.
When I launch control panel, there is 0 icon in it until I wait a minute or 2.
When I open any folder, all icons(.png, .mp4, .doc, .txt etc.) are blank.  After a few refresh, the green bar in the address bar shows up and it always takes longer than 3 minutes for the icons to display.  That folder only has 10 files.  I got very fast CPU and SSD.
The above issue repeats the next time I open the same folder.

I tried to reset the icon cache and restore win 7 default folder templates, none of them helped.

Searched on sevenforums and didn't find a solution.

Then I realize I have a windows generated registry back up in c:\windows\system32\config\RegBack
The back up was created just before I used windows repair pro's repair all function.
I manually restored the 5 registry files using cmd before getting into the OS, and the icon / explorer problems are solved.

I'm 100% sure your software was the reason for this mess up, spent the whole afternoon trying to fix it.

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General Computer Support / Can't install certain Windows 7 Updates

« on: November 04, 2017, 10:51:22 am »

Hi,

     I have been having 3 long-standing problems since 2016.  I have run Windows Repair Free but it didn't fix my issues.  I also tried SURT(System Update Readiness Tool) from Microsoft.  It fixed nothing.  I'm running Win 7 x64 SP1 Ultimate.

     Basically, I can't install the KB3126587 Windows Update since its launch in 2016.  It fails to install with the error 80070490 - Element not found.

     I also have another strange problem.  The Windows Update would ask me to install the very first version of IE 11(released in 2013), while I already have the latest version of IE 11.  Accepting this update will prompt installation successful.  After reboot and check for updates, Windows Update will ask me to install the same old IE 11 version again...  Every time after I close IE 11, the iexplorer.exe *32 and iexplorer.exe processes will still be running, and I have to manually end the processes.

     Also, I don't see the important Servicing stack update KB3177467 installed on my PC.  And Windows Update does not ask me to install it.

     Looks like my Windows 7 component store is corrupted.  I don't know if the Windows Repair Pro version can fix it?

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Registry compressor crashes upon compression

« on: November 04, 2017, 10:43:05 am »

Hi,

     I selected the Best compression setting and "Restart the system after finished" option.  After analyzing the registry and clicking the Compress button, Windows prompts that the registry compressor has stopped working.  The system automatically reboots within the next minute.  Is this kind of behavior normal?  I have closed every other program before running the registry compressor.

     After the reboot, it created a smaller ntuser.dat.new file, but the old one didn't seem to get replaced, since the old one has a larger size.

     I'm using Win 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate, and the latest registry compressor v1.1.0

     The crash problem can be reproduced every time, and it happens to both my host pc, and a virtual machine with a clean install of Win 7 running on the host pc.