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Eric Norberg:
Tweaking.com will not start in safe mode on my Dell Inspiron E1405 Windows XP machine (it used to).  I am responding to the message on the screen, "Try running the repairs in Windows safe mode. (This will keep third party programs from getting in the way of repairs.) If the repairs still fail, then please post in the Tweaking.com forum for support."  So that is what I am doing.  There were three messages saying "The current repair has failed to start for over 30 sec. Trying again...." -- after which I got the above message.  I have run Tweaking previously on this computer, but updated it to the new version before starting today.  Perhaps I should uninstall this version and reinstall the old version (a couple of years old)?

Eric Norberg, Portland, OR

Boggin:
Have you performed a chkdsk /r first ?

It's difficult to perform a sfc /scannow on an XP machine unless you have a XP install disk as the volume doesn't usually have all of the files in its i386 folder.

Eric Norberg:
I hadn't, so I did. After an extensive scan no problems were identified.  So I did a full uninstall of the latest version with Revo Uninstaller, and then reinstalled the older version that had worked on the computer -- 3.9.1 -- from the thumb drive on which I had banked it, and installed and ran THAT -- and it worked.  Perhaps the new version(s) don't work on some Windows XP machines...? Anyway, it seems 3.9.1 will work in cases in which the new version(s) don't, on Windows XP with Service Pack 3.

Thanks...

Eric Norberg
Portland, OR

Boggin:
Shane normally checks each new version on all versions of Windows but I'll pass this on.

Boggin:
Can you try some earlier versions to see when it stopped opening in safe mode which should help to nail down why.

https://filehippo.com/download_tweaking-com-windows-repair/history/

EDIT - It doesn't look like those links work any more.

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