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BarneyFife:
I have used this program before and with great success but this time not so good.
Question one is which feature do i NOT run to stop the program from defaulting my apps such as .PDF files opening with Edge instead of Adobe.

Question two is Why? I ran the program and did  everything as instructed like usual. When I ran the "make a restore point" the program said it was made successfully and i moved on and ran the fixes. when it was done i was not sure i wanted to keep the fixes and tried to find the restore point but its not there. It doesn't seem to create a restore point. Is it created somewhere else instead of the normal place in windows? If so Why? I had to create one manually now but its too late.

The problem i am having is with a Lenovo ultrabook. It was running windows 8.1 and updated to Win 10. Its been great but since one of the last updates the problem is that the system will not boot to windows the first time. It just sits forever at the Lenovo logo. But if i force shutdown and reboot all is well. I have found if i disable Turn on Fast Bootup it will work but i still seem to have a long shutdown waiting period, sometimes not shutting down, just spinning and spinning. Have you heard of this?

Boggin:
Not physically creating a restore point has been reported before and including by me where I'll no longer have it create it.

However, it does auto create a registry back up prior to running the repairs.

Use the program to boot up into Safe Mode with Networking then open it to click on Backup Tools - Restore under Registry Backup - Restore Registry - then use the dropdown to select the back up and then hit Restore Now

When I run the program I uncheck all boxes relating to the App repairs but it has still affected some and I've had my default browser changed back to Edge from IE and I can get up to 14 notifications that there was a problem with such and such an app which was then reverted to whatever.

I only run the program to check out each version or to try and replicate what others have reported.

A couple of things I'd like you to check and they are if you can still access Device Manager and Services.

I normally access Services my going Start - type services.msc and press enter.

For either, I get a window pop up telling me that the Administrator has blocked mmc.exe to protect me and reverting through the registry restore option doesn't resolve.

So far, I'm the only known one that is getting this error which is under investigation.

Fortunately I always create a system image before running any program that can change the system, so I can get out of that.

As for the problem caused by the last update, I'd take that up with MS.

Click on Contact support in https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/contactus/ and describe your problem.

Help with problems caused by updates are free and another member has gone this route because of a problem caused by an update.

BarneyFife:
if there is a known issue with the restore points not being created then there should either be a warning or take the feature out until it can be fixed or at least let is say it was NOT completed successfully. The fact that it says it was completed led me to believe i had a backup and was good to go.
Im not sure a registry restore will get me completely back and quite frankly im not to trusting right now. Do you think restoring the registry will get me back to the last state the machine was in?

Boggin:
It should do providing you don't have the mmc.exe error.

EDIT - You could turn off Hibernate which will clear the Hiberfil file.

Open a Command Prompt (Admin) and enter powercfg -h off

You can turn it back on by redoing the cmd using on instead of off.

Enter exit to close the cmd window and then see if that improves the shut down time.

Still_Game:

--- Quote from: BarneyFife on July 03, 2018, 02:05:51 pm ---if there is a known issue with the restore points not being created then there should either be a warning or take the feature out until it can be fixed or at least let is say it was NOT completed successfully. The fact that it says it was completed led me to believe i had a backup and was good to go.
Im not sure a registry restore will get me completely back and quite frankly im not to trusting right now. Do you think restoring the registry will get me back to the last state the machine was in?

--- End quote ---

I've got to agree with BarneyFife on this one - I think this issue needs to be fixed or, if it can't be proven to work reliably, removed from Windows Repair. It's fundamental to the repair process and can catch out the unwary. I know it doesn't work reliably on my system, don't rely on it, and would always use Windows' own process to create a restore point, which has always worked for me - and I always have a recent disk copy and / or image created with Future Systems Solutions' Casper, as well as a registry backup, prior to "dabbling".

I don't understand why this process can fail in Windows Repair - I would have thought it just calls up exactly the same procedure that the Windows process does. Where does it differ?

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