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Boggin:
I think Everyone has to be typed in all uppercase.

Mighty Joe:
Honestly I'm kind of afraid to try manually changing permission of services without a step-by-step walkthrough and I understand what Shane is working on is highest priority so getting a reply from him soon is probably unlikely. 

I think I'm going to try system restore in safe mode.  I have a restore point saved on 9/21, a few days before my problem, so in theory there's a good chance that will work.  I'll let you know how I do.

Boggin:
Okay - Good Luck.

Mighty Joe:
Through research I was able to find a way to override WD being enabled permanently without using system restore.  It's now disabled as I wanted it.  I wasn't able to find a similar fix for the other services I mentioned but I'm not that concerned about those, at least not right now.  Unfortunately, however, it looks like I'm still going to get notifications about WD being off (PC status: At risk) in the lower right corner of my monitor because the Enhanced Notifications option (under Settings) is greyed out so that it can't be turned off.  I would ask you where to look in my registry or elsewhere to try and fix that but you'll never get an reply from Shane so no point in my asking.

I don't mean to beat a dead horse but it sounds like Shane doesn't think what happened to me (twice) is a result of a bug in his program and that it's just some weird thing that only affected one individual's machine (mine) for some unexplained reason, is that about right?  No one else has ever reported this problem?  I mean, a user not being able to disable WD has potential major repercussions as far as conflicts with their commercial antivirus, leaving them open to viruses, I would think.

Boggin:
Shane is obviously tied up as he was planning to release the updated WR on Monday, but besides WR he also has a computer business to run and if he gets a few jobs in at the same time, then they will take all precedence.

Regardless of what caused your problem, without a positive fix at this time, I would still go back to scratch and perform a repair install as I've described.

Before running a program like WR which can make major changes to your system, I've always created a system image onto external media, so if something should go wrong, I always have a fall back.

That is why Shane is insistent that you back up the registry before proceeding with the repairs.

Even if you hadn't manually backed up the registry first, the program should have and I think you should check Option 5 and use the registry restore.

The dropdown is usually blank but clicking on the arrow will give the back ups that have been created so that you can use whichever, but only go back as far as the pre-WR you ran last time and hopefully that will resolve all of the services problems.

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