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Beta Repair System Restore
T100:
--- Quote from: Shane on September 19, 2013, 01:55:38 am ---The only way to get .net working again is to fully remove it and reinstall it.
This tool will do the removing for you :-)
Do that, reboot and then install .net again.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/08/28/8904493.aspx
Shane
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Yep that did the trick followed your instructions great job !
just wish we could get your Beta Restore to do the same now :thinking:
cheers Shane keep up your great work
T
:cheesy:
TiredOfWindows:
All the trouble on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine began right after I installed Microsoft's EMET patch and then uninstalled it a day later because it slowed the computer down to a crawl.... (but strangely, EMET on the XP virtual machine doesn't seem to impact it at all.....)
The first problem I noticed (a week or so ago) was IE9 was now working very erratically - sometimes it would connect to old IE Favorites OK and other times it would just sit there spinning its wheels. But then I found that System Restore was completely dead, which I mistakenly thought was a side effect of my next discovery; ALL my Restore points had been wiped out!! There was nothing listed there at all! - and I wasn't allowed to create any new ones.... But I did notice that my playing around with System Restore resulted in 24 copies of rstrui.exe all running simultaneously.
I did a Microsoft Windows Repair at bootup, and that allowed me to create some new Restore Points, at least. And resetting IE9 to its default settings appeared to make it connect to a variety of sites more reliably (or did I imagine that?) - but still not as smoothly as it used to.
Then today: FreeFileSynch hung up completely while I was copying from one drive to another; it simply stopped. I discovered that I couldn't shut down the hung-up FreeFileSynch by using the Task Manager, but Process Explorer was able to shut it down (after a delay).
Then I discovered that now I could list a few recent Restore Points (although some less recent ones had disappeared - again) and I could still create new Restore Points (so I increased the disk space allocated to saving Restore Points, in case that was playing a part in all this). But System Restore still refused to run (nothing would appear to happen when I clicked on it) - and then I found (using the Task Manager) that yet again I had multiple instances of rstrui.exe running simultaneously (8 or 9). So I closed all those down (using Process Explorer again) and rebooted and then ran Tweaking.com - Windows Repair (All in One) (v 1.9.18) for the very first time.
It ran MalwareBytes (which I aborted before it finished, because it was finding nothing, and I do frequent virus checks anyway); then CHKDSK (which reported some (unspecified!) errors - or was that just the persistent bad sector?); and then Microsoft's System File Checker which found numerous errors, including some (unspecified!) files that it said it could not fix....?
Then Tweaking.com - Windows Repair tried to repair the computer and I ran the beta System Restore Repair at the end, and rebooted.
Success! Now some long-gone Restore Points have reappeared! And now System Restore offers to apply them:
And somehow Tweaking.com - Windows Repair restored the two long-gone System Image restore points at the bottom of the list!
Questions:
Does Windows Defender inhibit Tweaking.com - Windows Repair? Because I forgot to disable it, and of all the logs in C:\Program Files (x86)\Tweaking.com\Windows Repair (All in One), only two (windows_repair_hkey_local_machine_3_log.txt and windows_repair_hkey_local_machine_4_log.txt) seem to contain any information about what Tweaking.com - Windows Repair actually achieved. There were several warnings about "registry key is skipped (contains wildcard)" and "C:\System Volume Information\{long string1}{long string2} - CreateFile Error : 5 Access is denied" but almost the all the log files are completely empty, and the remainder don't say what Tweaking.com - Windows Repair actually succeeded in doing.
But something must worked in all of that, because System Restore now appears to be operational again!!!
And Question 2:
I finally pinned down the new (deviant) behavior of IE9 while I was fiddling with all this: it won't connect to any https site (such as https://www.google.com/) if I'm in any tab other than the very first one that IE9 opens up... Does anyone know how to fix this annoyance?
ToM
Shane:
Glad to hear my tool helped :-)
From the sounds of it, it was a permissions problem.
But I am more curious on the chkdsk. If you have bad sectors that would explain a lot of the problems.
Have you done a bad sector check on the drive yet?
--- Quote ---Does Windows Defender inhibit Tweaking.com - Windows Repair? Because I forgot to disable it, and of all the logs in C:\Program Files (x86)\Tweaking.com\Windows Repair (All in One), only two (windows_repair_hkey_local_machine_3_log.txt and windows_repair_hkey_local_machine_4_log.txt) seem to contain any information about what Tweaking.com - Windows Repair actually achieved. There were several warnings about "registry key is skipped (contains wildcard)" and "C:\System Volume Information\{long string1}{long string2} - CreateFile Error : 5 Access is denied" but almost the all the log files are completely empty, and the remainder don't say what Tweaking.com - Windows Repair actually succeeded in doing.
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That depends on what the AV flags. Some AV will stop the program from accessing certain things and such and sometimes things get flagged as a false positive. So to be safe I ask people to disable the AV. It also helps speed up the repairs since the AV ist scanning every single file the repair touches.
As for the contains wild cards, this is normal and you can ignore those.
The "C:\System Volume Information\{long string1}{long string2} is where the restore points are kept. The beta repair tries to take permission of those. If you have bad secotrs it can really mees witht he files and permissions.
Shane
TiredOfWindows:
Hi Shane,
Thanks for the feedback! The single 4K bad sector has shown up repeatedly on CHKDSK runs, ever since I lost power during a thunderstorm several weeks ago. It's the only bad sector on a 1 terabyte drive, so I don't worry about it. Presumably it got corrupted. Someday I'll try to fix it; right now I don't know of any utility s/w that can do that.
I didn't get any messages from Windows Defender when I ran your Windows Repair, so presumably there was no conflict there.
My latest problem is that all the Restore Points except the two System Image Restore Points disappeared (again) after I used 64-bit CCleaner; I was allowed to create a new one, however. So CCleaner is my prime suspect right now. No, I didn't try using it to weed out "old" Restore Points; if it erased them it did so entirely on its own initiative. I see web postings that indicate lots of other folks have been having the same problem; meanwhile the author(s) deny that it's possible. Yeah, right, sure!
ToW
Shane:
A bad sector is a hardware problem and even with just 1 bad sector more will come. If the drive is under warranty you should get it replaced while you can.
Any bad sectors, even one is a big no no :-)
Shane
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