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General Computer Support / Re: I messed with the registry and now a lot of things don't work. Please help

« on: July 20, 2015, 01:04:47 pm »

Actually yes, that worked for me I ran the recovery disk that came with it, and although it wiped everything, it fixed the pc.

Thank you for your advice nevertheless, and your offer for help.

By the way, sfc /scannow never worked for me! I tried it before.

A repair install would likely have been more helpful to my issue, because I did have to start fresh and recover what I could with third party tools later. Good thing I backed it all up.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Repair keeps failing to start

« on: July 20, 2015, 01:01:22 pm »

Hello, sorry. It kept failing without hope.

However, my solution to the problem was to reinstall windows altogether and that worked

Thanks anyway

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General Computer Support / I messed with the registry and now a lot of things don't work. Please help

« on: July 19, 2015, 06:57:22 am »

Hello, I had trouble installing Atmel Studio, and as a result I found some advice online to change some registry settings. I did so, except I did not follow the instructions correctly, and inevitabely screwed up. I did not know what I was doing, and did not create any backups of the registry

I tried running the tweaker tool, but it failed and said that "This repair is hidden by windows itself" when trying to run the reset file permissions. Running without it didn't work.

OS: Windows Vista Home Basic Sp2

Symptoms: Windows defender can't update, says "out of memory", wireless connections panel also says out of memory. Audio doesn't work. System restore cannot open due to an error. Windows installer doesn't work at all.

What I've already tried: sfc /SCANNOW does nothing. msirepair.reg from the microsoft forums doesn't work. Ran ccleaner registry thing and it did something, but the problem persists.

What I did to cause the problem: I ran these commands using subinacl https://toster.ru/q/4832 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2673275/how-do-i-fix-an-invalid-license-data-reinstall-is-required-error-in-visual-c http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/solving-setup-errors-by-using-the-subinacl-tool-to-repair-file-and-registry-permissions.aspx I tried all of them, and may have screwed up some steps.

Additional info: My system locale is in Russian, so the computer doesn't recognize the "everyone" usergroup. I can't find a way to see the user groups, as windows home basic doesn't let you see in mmc--> local users, etc.
Please help me restore the pc back to normal, and help reset the registry if that is possible without reinstalling windows.
Perhaps there's a way to undo the changes I've made? Is there a way to see those changes?

Thanks a lot for any help!

Should I proceed with this? I DO have the install disc. http://vistasupport.mvps.org/repair_a_vista_installation_using_the_upgrade_option_of_the_vista_dvd.htm

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Repair keeps failing to start

« on: July 19, 2015, 06:54:35 am »

Hello, I've been having some issues. I followed each step in the process in order, and did the optional settings, but when I try to run
"Reset file permissions" in the repair tool, it keeps saying that
"This repair is hidden by Windows itself"
How do I fix this? Yes I was running in safe mode.

I'm running windows vista basic sp2. I tried running the beta repair, but the command console just keeps repeating 'System could not find the path' or something like that.

Furthermore, unchecking this repair and running the rest, and works so to speak (it runs) but doesn't solve my issue. In the command prompts that pop up, I see a whole wall of text saying "No permissions" over and over, or "File not found".

Thanks a lot!
Here's the issue I was trying to fix:
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/3dttkl/i_messed_with_the_registers_using_subinacl_and/