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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Issues with CD-ROM drives.

« on: October 23, 2015, 08:33:36 am »

I disagree that they rushed it out too soon, I've used the program in the past and had no issue with it.  However, the latest release (version 3.6.1) does appear to have a major problem with the way CD-ROM drives are handled.  This needs to be resolved soon.

As always I recommend that everyone do a FULL BACKUP of their system JUST IN CASE.  These tweaks are very powerful and to be honest, if you're not sure what they're doing you can really screw up your computers.  My desktop and laptop systems had a few issues and I hoped that running the program would resolve some of these, but it's NOT FOR EVERYONE. I was able to restore both systems to the way they were before I ran the utilities and all I lost was a little time (having a full backup of my existing systems on an external hard drive is irreplaceable...) but not everyone is prepared.

Hopefully you've been able to restore the system (try the registry restore feature and the backup features first...)  Otherwise I'm afraid that you might need to find someone who's familar with computers and is able to restore the system for you.  I'm a old-timer myself (60 plus years) but I've been using computers since the days of DOS (as well as Atari computers...)  Having a backup is a must or you're going to find yourself in a LOT of trouble.

Good luck.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Issues with CD-ROM drives.

« on: October 16, 2015, 08:19:30 am »

I installed Tweaking.com Registry Repair 3.6.1 on a couple of my systems and discovered a major issue.  After I did a complete backup of both systems, I ran the utility following the steps outlined.  Both systems were running Windows 10 and were working fine prior to using the utility.  After running it on both systems, my desktop system (with 2 CD-ROM drives) and my laptop (with a single CD-ROM drive) no longer showed the drives as being installed.  I opened the Device Manager on both systems and found that the drivers were no longer active.  I attemped to update the driver, then uninstalled the device and restarted the system - still didn't work.

I ultimately restored the older backups which restored the drives and deleted Registry Repair from my system.  This would've been a major issue for a new user and I don't think it's ready for release until the problem is resolved.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Black screen after running v2.8.6

« on: August 18, 2014, 07:48:56 am »

Did you do the "clean boot"? - I followed the steps indicated and when I rebooted my Windows 7-based system to run the program I was stuck on a black screen (post Windows 7 splash screen but before the desktop).  All I could see is the mouse cursor and the keyboard didn't work.  After waiting for a while (actually several hours) to see if the operating system ever comes up, I used a previously made Windows 7 "Repair Disk" to use the system restore feature and go back to my configuration of August 15th (when I did my last system update...).  At that point I was able to get back to my windows desktop.  Note that I had previously used version 2.8.5 without any issue (and I did NOT try to do a "clean boot"...)

I suspect that the process of disabling so many services and programs caused the system to fail to complete the boot to the desktop and if I hadn't taken the time to make the Windows 7 repair disk I probably would've been hosed.  At best I would had to restore a older disk image of my system and at worse I would've to start from scratch.  I think this is a reminder to ALWAYS make a repair disk and have a backup of your critical system BEFORE you do ANYTHING that can affect your system so seriously...