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Boggin:
When I was using the affected laptop this afternoon, decided to have a look in the reliability history and saw reports of the Media Host Module being stopped long after I last run Windows Repair and after the laptop had unfroze and appeared to be running okay.

The Event Viewer has some errors that I would like you to look at when we can arrange a hook up, but one of them suggested it could be because of a HDD problem so that laptop is currently undergoing a HDDScan3 surface read test - although the S.M.A.R.T. came back with all green "lights".

The surface read test has been running for about an hour and a half so far, so not sure when that will complete - using other laptop at present and its Reliability history has no reported faults after running WR, so whatever is going wrong is laptop specific.

There must be something different between the two as Old Timers TFC will crash this laptop but run okay on the other one.

It's looking like there is an 8hr time difference as it's 5.15pm here when the time stamp of this post is showing as 09.13am.

Boggin:
It's looking like the Media Center Module is stopping or not starting on any boot, so WR must have done something.

Shane:
Sorry for the late replay, I pulled a all nighter writing a new program, it is a envelope printer, done my style. I needed it for myself but I decided to put it out on tweaking.com as another free tool when I am done :-)

The hardest part about Windows Repair is that there is always unknown variables on peoples machines. I do my best to cover them and as I find more odd variables that cause trouble I dig in and find a way to keep that variable from happening.

I had one user who ran all the repairs on 10 machines all worked perfectly, then on one of them, a older one, crap hit the fan. Outlook pst files missing and all kinds of very very odd behavior. So i connected to him because that was very odd and it turned out that the hard drive had a butt load of bad sectors and when all the repairs ran files where moved and such on the hard drive by windows and his outlook pst file landed on one, and so in that case it was bad hardware that was the killer variable.

But then there have been other times, especially with Windows 8, where the repairs worked great on so many other windows 8 systems and yet was killing others. i dug in and found the variables about the marsh handlers and a odd bug in Win 8 where it deleted them if the permissions where changed, and then once I thought I had the permissions working another update from MS for 8 then broke that and threw a fit about permissions. So I dug in and found a fix for that variable as well, thus v2.8.0

So thats why I want to look at your system and look over any errors that are happening. If the cause is not hardware then I want to find out what was different on your machine, what unknown variable there was that caused the side effect, then I can put in a fix for the sucker and make my program better :-)

How the hell can I type so much when I have been up for 36 hours? Oh well, hope you dont mind listening to a tired talkative geek :-)

Shane

Boggin:
I used to pull all nighters when I was working on a BASIC program and eventually made myself ill - so don't over do it.

If you're fit then you can hook up now if you want.

Shane:
I use to pull late nights all the time, and i paid for it. I turned 35 a few weeks back. And yes ever since I started sleeping properly I have been much stronger for it. Man I am getting old lol

If you dont mind I would like to do this tomorrow around this time, as long as I dont get stuck on a customer job.

My brain is a little worn out and I am trying my hardest to get this program done. Making a whole program in one run isnt too shabby :-)

Shane

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