Author Topic: Re: Thank you for this tool (solved) (Read 8883 times)

davexnet · « **on:** June 23, 2014, 10:07:16 am »

Thanks very much for a well thought out and executed utility.

I had an odd problem in Vista, in which request for help in Microsoft Answers and Technet forums went unanswered.
My PC worked properly only when running in UAC - off mode. When UAC was on, some system functions failed
all supplied scheduled task, including the Microsoft supplied tasks.

After running the registry and filesystem permissions reset it all started to work again.

The restore important services log shows the following (here is the first four lines)
Error: The system cannot find the file specified.

Error: The file or directory is not a reparse point.

Error: The system cannot find the file specified.

Error: The file or directory is not a reparse point.

etc, etc. on to the end, another 30 or 40 lines

Willy2 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2014, 03:52:03 am »

Can you attach the logs to your next reply in this thread ?

davexnet · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2014, 10:48:18 am »

Yes, here are the logs.

Willy2 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2014, 02:10:26 pm »

I hoped it would give some answers but alas nothing out of the ordinary. Thanks anyway.

davexnet · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2014, 08:16:26 pm »

What was that part of the tool supposed to do?
Could it have failed because I had some definite permission problems in the registry?

Willy2 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 24, 2014, 10:53:41 pm »

"Restore Important Services" restores info for a number of Services in the registry and it removes a number of Symbolic links. It does not reset file permissions. Was that the only repair you ran ?

Reseting file & registry permissions are done in repairs #1 & #2.

I know permissions can be a "pain in the _ss". When I re-install Win 7 I Always run the "reset file permissions" because Win 7 has "some ideas of its own" regarding this and I don't like those ideas. It makes it impossible to store new files in a number of folders.

Shane · « **Reply #6 on:** June 25, 2014, 02:48:14 pm »

Those errors are ok. I have no way from keeping the cmd.exe window from putting them in there.

Some viruses put junction points on registry keys and folders on the system. The repair runs a command to remove any junction point that there might be. So when there isnt a junction point on them then you get the error "The file or directory is not a reparse point."

So no worry about those

Since all the commands are ran through windows and cmd.exe I am very limited on how it logs the results.

Shane

davexnet · « **Reply #7 on:** June 26, 2014, 10:07:43 am »

Shane and Willy2,
thanks for the info. My Vista Ultimate system is running well once more.
Setting to "solved"
regards,
Dave