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General Computer Support / Lost permission to create, write, delete files in My Documents

« on: December 14, 2013, 10:27:22 am »

Had a weird event under Windows 7 Pro 32bit. Normally clean machine. Computer froze immediately following an e-mail send from Outlook. Had to power off. When I rebooted, I had lost the ability to create, write, delete files in My Documents (which is mapped to a separate partition on my computers: drive D:).

Nothing turned up on full scans with Kaspersky. Rootkit scans come up negative. Malwarebytes found one item (Malware.Packer.Gen) but cleaned it. Subsequent rescans come up clean. I ran your full Windows Repair all-in-one including disk scans and reset file permissions. Still no access. Suggestions?

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General Computer Support / XP BITS not starting up with error code %%1290

« on: October 22, 2013, 12:02:26 pm »

Have done something to the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (ran the ALL INC tool) and now can't get updates from Windows Update or MS Security Essentials. This is logged in the event viewer as error %%1290

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Windows Repair (All In One)

« on: September 13, 2013, 09:37:34 am »

v1.9.17 still has a problem with automatic computer restart. When restart is attempted, All In One repeatedly relaunches itself, filling the screen with copies of itself.

Under Win XP, there is no way of killing this, other than doing a hard power-off on the computer. Under Win7, Ctrl+Alt+Del will interupt the recursive launching and allow the system to reboot.

This happens with the previous version also, on the four computers that I have tried it on (two Win 7 and two Win XP).

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General Computer Support / Windows XP 'Found new hardware' fixer

« on: September 06, 2013, 05:12:45 pm »

Would love something that could fix whatever causes Windows XP to try to load a second set of drivers for hard drive and CDROM drive, when it has already successfully loaded them once, every time the system boots up. Something in the registry triggers the wizard to open and want to search the Internet for drivers, which always fails, and I have to hit Cancel on each attempt. There is no known fix for this other than reinstalling XP.

It was caused by adding some external HP CD burner via USB to the existing system (ironically, an HP system). Also, USB devices trigger the Add Hardware wizard, even if they have already installed themselves, sometimes causing a USB device to fail to load at all (such as an external CD drive). It always seems to execute twice for 'new' devices.

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Feedback & Suggestions / Windows All-In-One 1.9.16

« on: September 06, 2013, 01:34:36 pm »

I too am glad that I found this utility. It saved me a lot of time trying to restore Windows 7 firewall to active after a trojan infection. It also restored Windows Defender to health and got the computer accessible on our peer-to-peer network. Great work.

One small issue I found with this version, is that if you elect to allow the program to restart Windows (7) it calls itself recursively until I opened the Task Manager and killed it. The workaround was simple -- next time, I just said "No" and restarted the computer myself.

Thanks again for a great tool!