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KR:
Hello Community,
I've expereinced some issues with win7 and I would like to have everything checked in general.

I heard lots of good reviews about the tool, but my concern is:

Question:
Will it set everything back to default? ...

I have lots of customizations, as e.g.
 - the look of my desktop/ two monitors,
 - Groups and Libraries taken out of explorer pane (only "Computer"), 
 - moved  certain folders e.g. "My Documents") from "C" to "F",
 - custom scripts e.g. 'run: clean event viewer',
 - custom event views,
 - page file settings and others specifically for SSD, etc, etc. (stuff I might not all remember to re-set

Do I have to re-set all of this?
Does it "repair" ... or better "re-set" personal customizations as well?

Again - I'd like to use the tool but don't want to end up with 'as new' factory settings ...

I hope this is a legitimate question and thanks for your answers in advance

Willy2:
- Are you using a Server version of Win 7 (e.g. Server 2008) ?
- Can you give some clues of what's wrong with your Win 7 system ?

- No, it won't reset everything to the default settings. But some users have applied so much (registry) tweaks or such weird tweaks that I can't give a 100% guarantee all will work out fine. Sometimes even running this program on a "normal" Win 7 system gives some problems.
- But that's why you SHOULD make a backup of the registry FIRST with the Registry Backup tool (comes with WR). Because some 90 to 95% of the things that are "repaired"/reset involves changes in the registry. And the entire registry is a LARGE "file" where A LOT OF things can go wrong.
- The WR PRO version allows you to automatically run your custom scripts (think: MSDOS commands/scripts, *.reg files and *.vbs (???) scripts) after WR has done its job.
- If you have different favourite settings for the Services then those can be customized as well (see the info for repair #27).
- But in your case I would play it safe and don't tick too many boxes at the same time. Then you can pinpoint where WR possibly went "off the rails".
- Keep us posted. Perhaps you'll come across some things that need to be incorporated in a next version of WR.

KR:
Thanks Willy2
Not sure about server version - all I know is Win7-Serv Pack1 - always updated

My big problem is: tons of Errors in Event Viewer: Schannel - 36887 - Fatal Error: 40
It started only a couple of weeks ago - come always in pairs, 2 every 15 minutes or so ... the longer I work the more are there. - I clean event viewer everytime when shutting down.
Some say its an IE problem, TSL, Handshake ..no idea what that means, but someone mentioned deleting 4 registry keys in Cryptography\Configuration\Local\SSL\00010002 and two other, closeby by places....not sure if I should do that
https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/steam-advisory/2014-November/000086.html

Have to let you know that I ALWAYS make a system image (Macrium/Reflect)and/or Reg. backup when doing something uncertain

Otherwise I'm happy with win7 and have a clean, efficient running system (Perf. Score 7.7) ...just want to solve Schannel problem and
if Windows repair is not changing too much of my personal set-up ... use it and fix other, unknown things ...maybe I'm a bit of a clean freak..? :-)

Question: if I use WR tool and something goes majorly wrong, will a system image restore revert everything to previous stage?

Thanks for now and Happy Holidays ... response appreciated

Willy2:
- An image is A very way to restore to a previous state. Might lose some info/data though.
- GOOGLE provided this info. It seems (!!!) to be related to a protocol for one or more websites

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/401868-schannel-fatal-alert-40-what-is-going-on

- This is stuff "above my paygrade". Perhaps some else knows better what to do.

KR:
I hear you Willy2
In response to your lnk: I've read this one too, but ... beyond my "geek-level" ... no idea what they are talking about ... and no real solution ... step by step.
So-thanks for your time

For any other readers - I will try this: https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/steam-advisory/2014-November/000086.html   and of course make a sytem image before - and just restore if it doesn't work

K

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