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

« on: December 18, 2013, 02:47:41 pm »

I think that may have been the case. I was running multiple copies of WinZip at the time, doing backups, and one of the machines I was backing up had a disk error which caused the drive to loop infinitely, hanging up WinZip. I found this out later when I went to redo the backups. Perhaps one disk error begat another, by WinZip hanging my machine.

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

« on: December 17, 2013, 04:15:27 pm »

This wasn't a primary partition, though. It was a logical partition, so no boot sector. There was no effect on drive C:, which continues to operate normally.

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

« on: December 14, 2013, 02:53:31 pm »

I did manage to sort this out. I backed up the partition, deleted it, recreated it and then copied the data back. The whole thing was kind-of unsettling. Really no idea what caused the computer to crash in the first place.

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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 / Re: XP BITS not starting up with error code %%1290

« on: October 23, 2013, 11:34:24 am »

OK, that makes sense. I don't think that I ran the first two fixes on the first try, because I wasn' t anticipating any permission changes, due to it being a fresh install from the OEM recovery CD. I did run those fixes on the second try, so that may have made the difference.

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

« on: October 23, 2013, 09:11:33 am »

Hard to say. I followed the procedure noted in my last post and got BITS functional, but not loading (prior to that, it would not even attempt to load). I didn't run the full set of fixes prior to, but only ran the fixes that I thought would have a bearing on the problem, and that failed. I can't say for sure that your software was the entire fix, or whether it was a combination of my fiddling and your software.

Have you had any other experience with %%1920 errors?

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

« on: October 22, 2013, 04:43:05 pm »

Well, I tried this manual fix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916251/en-us and this woke up BITS enough that I could attempt to start it, but it complained about a missing file.

So I ran your All-Inc fix again, this time with everything checked and that seems to have fixed the problem. Not sure what happened to BITS. However, the disk check did find an error, so maybe the new HD had a bad sector.

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

« on: October 22, 2013, 04:07:54 pm »

Downloaded the latest (v2.0.1). This is a fresh install of XP from original disks on a newly replace HD. Nothing has been installed on this netbook besides MS Security Essentials and Windows updates and FireFox.

The OEM CDs had SP3 on them, but there were a bunch of Windows updates (about 150). I had some initial problems getting Win update to run. It would go off looking for updates and then just sit there. I eventually just left it overnight and it downloaded and installed 150 updates on reboot. But have not been able to actually get MS update to run properly since. It sees updates but downloading just fails.

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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 / Re: Windows Repair (All In One)

« on: September 19, 2013, 03:04:08 pm »

Cool. Looking forward to the update. Thanks!

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

« on: September 13, 2013, 12:15:07 pm »

I learned that if it gives me the option to restart, that I say no and just close the program myself and reboot it myself. However, this morning, with the lastest version, I just used it to do a TMP file cleanup, and it just jumped straight into restart and began recursively calling itself.

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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 / Re: Windows XP 'Found new hardware' fixer

« on: September 10, 2013, 09:11:00 am »

There were two scheduled tasks from Google (probably put there by the Google toolbar). I deleted them. No change on restart.

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

« on: September 09, 2013, 12:13:17 pm »

Thanks, Shane. No greyed-out hidden devices are present. There are hidden devices, but all seem to be active. I went through all categories.

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

« on: September 08, 2013, 06:01:37 pm »

I haven't actually removed all devices, but I have tried this kind of thing before, with no success. When the Device Manager is open, there are no unknown devices. What it is doing is trying to install duplicate drivers for a device that is already installed: example the hard drive. Cancelling out of these device installations does not result in any unknown devices.

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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!