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Tweaking.com will not start in safe mode on my Dell Inspiron E1405 Windows XP

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Samson:
FWIW I have used V4 without problem on a friend's XP SP3 machine, from memory it was V 4.0.6

Eric Norberg:
I installed the next version down on the list you sent, 4.0.3, and after installation and starting it up in Safe Mode, I immediately got an error message -- the registry backup had crashed. But, it did run the program.  I know the change from "3" to "4" made significant changes, since I had to pay the fee again at that point, but it appears the first "4" version on the list you sent does run on this computer. 

I thought then that perhaps I should re-download the latest version to make sure there is a problem -- since I was able to run the older program, and that could have cleared up whatever was stopping the latest version from running.

So I downloaded and installed 4.0.14 again, and in safe mode it did back up the registry -- and, this time, started running without apparent difficulty.  In fact, it ran a bit faster than 4.0.3.  Took about 33 minutes to complete.  So, I guess all we can suppose is that the older version fixed the problem that had prevented the newest version from running!

Boggin:
Thanks for trying that and the update.

It would seem that it was computer specific and not the Windows type.

Just for interest, how did you download those versions from that web site ?

Eric Norberg:
Not quite sure what you mean...? You provided a site with a bunch of links for successive versions, and since it was made available to me through e-mail, I received it on my main Windows 7 computer -- so I downloaded the first version I tried on that, put it on a thumb drive, and ran it on the Windows XP machine.  For the current version, I just got that the usual way, as an update to the first version on the XP machine directly.  Had that not run again, I was going to uninstall it and pick up an intermediate version from the site, putting it on the thumb drive and running it on the XP machine, and narrow down to the trouble spot in that way by trial and error, but that part proved unnecessary.  Does that answer your question?  Thanks for the assistance!

Boggin:
Yes - thanks, it's just that this time when I tried them, all I got was an info page on that version with no download buttons.

Previously, clicking on any of the links started the download.

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