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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: WR aio 3.9.4 - rebooting to Safe Mode displays a constricted view

« on: July 24, 2016, 09:37:37 am »

A couple of days ago, my continuing failure with my network port issue forced a new installation of Windows 7 onto the computer using the latest release of Tweaking All In one.  Tweaking's latest version now shows a truncated main dialog in Safe Mode. 

With a fresh Windows 7 Pro installation, and NVidia’s June and later latest GTX display driver repair installed, the Safe Mode screen showed the same truncated main control screen.  However, when the process reaches the Fix-It phase, the All-in-One screen display is perfect.  Before the NVidia driver was installed, the Windows default driver from the fresh installation showed the same Safe Mode display issue.  NVidia’s repaired July update driver was working as expected, but it didn’t change the Safe Mode display problem.

This safe more All-in-One truncated display issue is new.  It hadn't happened with previous All-in-One versions.

A fresh install was needed because I couldn't keep the internet connection stable no matter how many times I tried to repair the installation.  All software, which wasn't many, that had been installed since the network port problem first appeared was removed.  New network drivers were installed many times.  Other motherboard drivers were installed many times.  Removing the NVidia process from the installation still showed the same network issues.  Running All-in-One many times didn't help the networking failure that would be fine for a while, but then it would disable the port.  Trying to enable the port again would lockup the computer.  Rebooting would get the port working again.  Downloading large data files would fail part way through forcing the downloads to a laptop and a USB transfer.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: WR aio 3.9.4 - rebooting to Safe Mode displays a constricted view

« on: July 08, 2016, 10:09:53 pm »

NVidia driver v368.39.  This driver was originally installed June-6-2016, and it was the solution to the May driver release that installed a 16-bit driver.  May driver and the July driver package installed a 16-bit driver that generated an error message after the desktop appeared following a reboot from off. 

Faulty driver July package was automatically installed in July, but it was removed a few days ago so the current driver package could be rolled back to their previous driver.  This June driver seemed to work well, but I never tried Tweaking Pro with the June release prior to July package removal and reinstallation of the June release.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: I'm not happy. Windows Repair v3.9.4 does not fix the problems.

« on: July 07, 2016, 08:05:25 pm »

After posting I wondered if the screen size might be part of the problem.  The previous image size is: 800x600
Screen size was adjusted to monitor's recommended size: 1680x1050
Image attach does a better job of showing how the main dialog screen is truncated around the right and lower dialog border.  Error message with the larger screen resolution does not show now, but the there is a secondary screen under the main dialog.

Thanks,
Roger...

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: I'm not happy. Windows Repair v3.9.4 does not fix the problems.

« on: July 07, 2016, 07:49:06 pm »

Tweaking All in One Pro was updated tonight.  When it was run in Safe-Mode, it generates an error message.  It also doesn't respond to attempts to reduce it screen size or even provide the side of the screen so that it can be adjusted.  Image file attached shows this error message when it appears on the screen:
"An error occurred while attempting to delete the specified data element.
Element not found.
The batch file cannot be found." <--This line is a guess.

Any thoughts as to what might be causing this error?

Thanks,
Roger...

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / UAC Icon Appearance after All In One Execution

« on: October 01, 2015, 11:22:50 am »

Last weekend "All-in-One" executed a task list with most of the methods enabled. 
Before executing it installed an update.  A test this morning shows it is current @ 3.5.0.1.

After the repairs completed and computer rebooted, many program icons displayed a Windows UAC (Use Account Control) icon badge.  That UAC badge was also given to the Repair_Windows.exe software.  It didn't have that designation before the repair.

A UAC badge honor is a promise to always ask the user: "Do you want the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer."

Moving the UAC setting to its lowest level stops UAC nagging.

Some of the programs with a UAC badge are the same but were installed in different folders.  Most of those duplicate program them don't have the UAC icon (See attached image).  Almost all the programs with a new UAC badge are installed on drive "D."

What might have happened during a repair that changed have how Windows viewed the same program, even with the same release to have more risk?

What can I do to remove the nagging without giving up on UAC protection?

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General Computer Support / Re: "All in one Windows Repair v3.2.2 (Pro Version) - Error Msg Confusion.

« on: June 26, 2015, 07:39:52 pm »

Do they affect the running of any programs and can you successfully run a manual check for Windows Updates ?

I don't know.  I do know this OS still has problems that cause a lot of small issues.  About 18-months ago it had a huge amount of problems.  Since finding "All-in-One" running many times since many of the issues have been resolved, but many still exists that still cause a lot of little problems.

One of my biggest issues was unknown accounts that were given a long series of numbers as a names (see attached image).  I've look at hundreds of folders to see in attempt to find them and then find their parent so they could be removed.  None of the "number-series" accounts showed in the Account Management area so there was no way to removed like most account would be removed.  These were removed by reassigned their folders at the level the lower level folders were inheriting these unknown accounts.


I've attached the CBS_20150626.log copied from the main CBS.Log file.  Records are all from today.

ChkDsk w/o the "/F" was run and it showed there aren't any disk issues:

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   Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
   Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 
   C:\>chkdsk
   The type of the file system is NTFS.
   Volume label is R10_C Boot.
 
   WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
   Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
 
   CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
     309248 file records processed.
   File verification completed.
     1640 large file records processed.
     0 bad file records processed.
     2 EA records processed.
     98 reparse records processed.
   CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
     387556 index entries processed.
   Index verification completed.
     0 unindexed files scanned.
     0 unindexed files recovered.
   CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
     309248 file SDs/SIDs processed.
   Security descriptor verification completed.
     39155 data files processed.
   CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
     260195128 USN bytes processed.
   Usn Journal verification completed.
   Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
 
    468848639 KB total disk space.
    194960368 KB in 268846 files.
      156952 KB in 39156 indexes.
          0 KB in bad sectors.
      648199 KB in use by the system.
       65536 KB occupied by the log file.
    273083120 KB available on disk.
 
        4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
    117212159 total allocation units on disk.
     68270780 allocation units available on disk.
Biggest issue appears when a "Blue Crash Screen" appears, and when a shut down generates a Window crash error that suspends shutdown until the dialog is cleared.

Thanks again for helping,
Roger...

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General Computer Support / Re: "All in one Windows Repair v3.2.2 (Pro Version) - Error Msg Confusion.

« on: June 26, 2015, 04:11:58 pm »

I do plan on upgrading to Windows 10.

Thank you for showing how to resolve this KB issue.  I've learned a lot by working through the solution steps you sent. 

After your CBS.LOG comment above the earlier problems no longer appear.  There are warning messages in today's section of the log that were there before but I did give them much weight before.

For example, in the CBS log none of the previous errors are there in today's section of the report.  However there are a lot of these warning messages: CBS_E_MANIFEST_INVALID_ITEM.  This message appears 1,201 times in today's section that covers 12,491 lines.

Do you know if this warning message is something that needs to be resolved?

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General Computer Support / Re: "All in one Windows Repair v3.2.2 (Pro Version) - Error Msg Confusion.

« on: June 26, 2015, 10:17:20 am »

I believe we are making progress.

Following this advice:

I don't know if your restore points go back to before this month's WUs but uninstalling that update may stop those errors or you could run SFCFix.exe which may clear them. http://thetechcookbook.com/automatic-sfc-corruption-repair-sfcfix-exe/

Instructions on that page were clear and easy to enable.  In the Scan section these results were reported:

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   Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
   Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 
   C:\>SFC /SCANNOW
 
   Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.
 
   Beginning verification phase of system scan.
   Verification 100% complete.
   Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.
   Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example
   C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log

Second step section applied the SFCFix.exe program.  Its results showed this information:

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   Welcome to SFCFix by niemiro and sysnative.com.
 
   Checking for updates . . .
   No new update is available at this time.
 
   Processing directive 1 of 1 (AutoAnalysis::)
   Checking store directories . . .
   Checking CBS.log . . .
   Checking CheckSUR.log . . .
   Checking CheckSUR.persist.log . . .
 
   Attempting repair . . .
   Stage 1
   Stage 2
   Stage 3
   Stage 4a
   Stage 4b
   Stage 4c
   Stage 4d
   Stage 9
 
   SUMMARY:
      CBS & SFC total detected corruption count:     2
      CBS & SFC total unimportant corruption count:  0
      CBS & SFC total fixed corruption count:        2
      SURT total detected corruption count:          0
      SURT total unimportant corruption count:       0
      SURT total fixed corruption count:             0
 
   Press any key to continue to explanation of summary . . .
I looked for the file: SFCFix.txt but various search methods couldn't find it on either of my two disk.

Results from SFCFix.exe program felt promising.  A second SFC /SCANNOW was executed to see if Windows SFC would agree.  It did when it reported:

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 
C:\>SFC /SCANNOW
 
Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.
 
Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.
 
Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.
ADDED AFTER CONSOLE WINDOWS EXITED:
Notepad displayed this information when the SFCFix Console window was closed with EXIT.

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SFCFix version 2.4.5.0 by niemiro.
Start time: 2015-06-26 09:49:15.680
Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 - amd64
Not using a script file.

AutoAnalysis::
FIXED: Corruption at C:\WINDOWS\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-u..ed-telemetry-

client_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.18869_none_fde7d5f71db043ad\utc.app.json has been

successfully repaired from C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-u..ed-telemetry-

client_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.23040_none_fe7de82236c5fac8\utc.app.json.
FIXED: Corruption at C:\WINDOWS\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-u..ed-telemetry-

client_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.18869_none_fde7d5f71db043ad\telemetry.ASM-

WindowsDefault.json has been successfully repaired from C:\Windows\winsxs

\amd64_microsoft-windows-u..ed-telemetry-

client_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.23040_none_fe7de82236c5fac8\telemetry.ASM-

WindowsDefault.json.

SUMMARY: All detected corruptions were successfully repaired.
AutoAnalysis:: directive completed successfully.

Successfully processed all directives.
SFCFix version 2.4.5.0 by niemiro has completed.
Currently storing 2 datablocks.
Finish time: 2015-06-26 10:24:24.264
----------------------EOF----------------------- I think this resolves the confusion between the different earlier test results.

Is above a safe assumption?

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General Computer Support / Re: "All in one Windows Repair v3.2.2 (Pro Version) - Error Msg Confusion.

« on: June 25, 2015, 02:56:40 pm »

Does my pre-scan show any missing packages files on your system?

I didn't see anything that indicated files were missing.

findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log >"%userprofile%\Desktop\sfcdetails.txt"

Posted findstr command surfaced and icon for: sfcdetails.txt

File attached shows many "Cannot repair member file" items than the CBS.Log file.

Thanks for responding.

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General Computer Support / Re: "All in one Windows Repair v3.2.2 (Pro Version) - Error Msg Confusion.

« on: June 25, 2015, 07:05:20 am »

I found it confusing to have an error displayed in the console information that Log believed was resolved.

A search for the word: "error" with Notepad++ did find what might have been two errors of the same package. 

Line: 20,945:
2015-06-17 06:27:02, Info                  CBS    Failed to get session package state for package: Package_39_for_KB3040272~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.1 [HRESULT = 0x80070490 - ERROR_NOT_FOUND]

Line 21,477:
"2015-06-17 06:27:02, Info                  CBS    Failed to get session package state for package: Package_39_for_KB3040272~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.1 [HRESULT = 0x80070490 - ERROR_NOT_FOUND]"

This is the second time where the console reports showed an error, but the log indicated there are no errors.

Thanks for responding.

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General Computer Support / "All in one Windows Repair v3.2.2 (Pro Version) - Error Msg Confusion.

« on: June 22, 2015, 11:28:09 am »

There is still a strange Windows 7 Pro OS issue.

 Today's "Windows Repair 3.2.2" system file check generated this error message:
-------------------- Error Msg - START:
Administrator System File Check <-- NotePad Dialog Display

[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS
D:\Program Files <x86>\Tweaking.com Windows Repair (All in One) "C:\WINDOWS\system32\sfc" /scannow
Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.
Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log
Please Restart Your Computer When System File Checker is Finished.
Press any key to continue . . .
-------------------- Error Msg - END:

In looking at the CBS.log it reports:
"All files and registry keys listed in this transaction  have been successfully repaired"

With one message indicating a problem exist and the message that all is well, I could use some guidance to understand the context of what each message is telling me.

Is that any chance I could pass along the CBS.log file for you to see if all is well, or not?

Thanks,
Roger...

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General Computer Support / Re: Program Updates Are Replaced with Earlier Files

« on: May 01, 2014, 09:29:39 am »

This isn't solved yet.  I'm waiting for a released software only installation that doesn't force the installation of data.  I asked for this after your last posting and the developer agreed to create and promised to have it available late today or sometime tomorrow.  If it doesn't arrive until Friday, I'll perform the instructions you offered on Saturday morning.

Sorry for the delay,
Roger...

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General Computer Support / Re: Program Updates Are Replaced with Earlier Files

« on: April 29, 2014, 12:53:40 pm »

OK - I'll give the uninstall process a try.

I won't be able to do that until the weekend because a fresh clean-install of this program and its resident data files is near to a Gig of data.  Program side is small, but the data side is huge and takes a long time to download and then install even with a fast machine like this one.  Data side is all DB-Type files, but to remove all traces the DB-data files are more than a trace with them making a huge space footprint.

I'll report next when I've been able to try the uninstall.

Do you think there would be any information in new program only install into a fresh directory that might be taken before doing something that would remove all traces of the current software and its data?

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General Computer Support / Re: Program Updates Are Replaced with Earlier Files

« on: April 29, 2014, 09:55:07 am »

TSVNCache.exe must be part of the TortoiseSVN Subversion process that I use to write technical information.  That process has been in place for almost 18-months and it only has three Subversion folders, all on the same "D" drive.  I can't imagine TortoiseSVN having a repository of the UA3 directory where the action takes place.  UA3 was created only recently and was never committed to the Subversion process.  TortoiseSVN only will update files when it is manually triggered to Synchronize files with its designated repository.  Attached is an image of the TortoiseSVN cache Log File area.  Cache for log files is disabled and no files are being cached other than those sent to the Repository which are all images and XML topic files.

Dropbox.exe is a cloud process I use to share files and store information I want to have available when I'm laptop mobile.  There are no known instances of the data downloading software on in any of the folders within the Dropbox entity.

I would do is get dropbox and that other exe to leave that folder alone and see if that does the trick

I don't know what to do or how to influence either of these programs from peaking at a folder. 

Dropbox is totally dependant upon forced submissions and retrievals, and TortoiseSVN only responds to deliberate synchronizing commands. 

Both of these processes have been in place long before this issue began.

Windows Backup Process
This process provides a backup to my "C" drive files.  I keep deleting the files in its destination partition, but would rather disable its operation altogether.  In it place I use a disk mirror process call Casper to keep my disk backed up at the end of each week.  Casper works well for recovery because it provides an actual mirror.  I don't know the Windows Backup is part of the issue, but out any means to disable it, even though it doesn't have any files to source when I remember to destroy them, I don't know if that is part of the issue.

I've destroyed the directory UA3 where the older files were appearing.  Would creating another Process Monitor test to a new directory be of any help in discovering what might happening?

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General Computer Support / Re: Program Updates Are Replaced with Earlier Files

« on: April 29, 2014, 08:40:24 am »

I tried to post this yesterday and again earlier this AM along with the process monitor's log file, but they didn't stick.  I'm now thinking the log file was too large to be compatible with the Reply Upload option, which aborted the reply.  It is now uploaded to this folder and will be cleared after you've had a chance to retrieve the file.
   http://tinyurl.com/moz8l8t  (44+ MB Text File)

Sorry for the delay and for trying to attach a file that was too large.

After a cold power-disconnected boot the file update test was executed with the process monitor active to watch for the actions during an update.  Results of those test generated two different results using the same updating file on two different directories.  Results in the directory that had the same files as those in the updating file were different than those in the directory where none of the problem files were present.

Update Test: 1
Perform an update using the current updating file on the working folder where the data downloading software runs each day.  This folder had the current files in place.  Files in this directory were current because the updater was executed on the laptop and the changed files were copied and pasted into this folder.  When those files were examined after this test to update the current files present in this directory prior to the updating file being executed were left unchanged.

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Update No-Change - Correct Files Stayed In Place:
OK 3/6/2014 10:15 AM 9,245,184 PositionMgr.exe
OK 4/25/2014 11:02 AM 3,900,928 EzDownloader.exe
OK 4/25/2014 12:50 PM 6,384,128 MarketScanner.exe
OK 4/25/2014 12:48 PM 1,0,805,760 UAd.exe

  Update Failed Problem Older Files Appeared Instead of Current Updated Files:
X 10/29/2013 7:57 AM 9,262,080 PositionMgr.exe
X 1/15/2014 8:45 AM 3,728,384 EzDownloader.exe
X 1/17/2014 2:19 PM 6,148,096 MarketScanner.exe
X 1/17/2014 1:57 PM 1,0,396,160 UAd.exe
Update Test: 2
This test used the same updating file in a directory where the problem files had been deleted and cleared from the trash prior to the reboot.  When this folder was updated the files in the updating file were present, but not at the revision level as the files in the updating file.  Instead the files present in this second directory where the typical older files that appeared after every update since this problem began in January 2014.

Does anything in the Process Monitor Log show what might be happening, and what can be done to make it stop?

Thank you for staying with me on this issue,
Roger...

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General Computer Support / Re: Program Updates Are Replaced with Earlier Files

« on: April 28, 2014, 10:46:55 am »

Process Monitor is running and showing a huge amount of detail.  When I tried to view the Help file in the folder where it open, it shows all the Help topics, but the content on the displayed pages is missing. 

Can you share the details on the filters that should be enabled?

Also, I'm open to a remote session and payment for your time.

My internet connection will be offline for a few hours while the local ATT technician attempts to solve connection issues.  This means my next response will be delay to any posting after the next 20-minutes or less.

Thank you,
Roger...

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General Computer Support / Re: Program Updates Are Replaced with Earlier Files

« on: April 28, 2014, 10:27:14 am »

Hello Shane.
Thank you for responding.  This issue has me baffled.

Mouse over file to Pop-Up version data:
Old File: 2.10.7.566
New File: 2.10.7.622

Program features are also changed with the new file as an additional confirmation.

I've tried to do an update right after a disabled/enabled fresh boot with no change.  I'm admin on this machine, but have used the "Run as Administration" option.  OS uses AVG Pro, and that is always disabled. 

Thanks again,
Roger...

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General Computer Support / Program Updates Are Replaced with Earlier Files

« on: April 27, 2014, 04:14:39 pm »

For about the last 4-months I've found a series of problems on this computer.   Some time in January 2014 folder permissions got buggered up preventing access in some cases.  MS provided a Folder Repair plus a few other methods and some of the folder permission issues were solved.  Not all got fixed, but "Windows Repair" seems to have cleaned up the folders I've checked.

What hasn't been resolved is in how my daily data updating program can't be updated to a current release.  To get  new updated exe files I need to update the software on my laptop and then copy the changed files to this computer.  That works well, but it is clumsy and will only work as long as there aren't any registry changes involved.

When the same updating software is run on this program Windows forces the files back to a version that was released in early January.  This means that files that were copied to the disk from the laptop with dates in early April of this year get replaced with files released in January of this year.

File searches of this computer's disk to find those earlier files never locates the source of where those earlier file versions are hiding.

There are other issues like how the dialog that needs action and has focus doesn't always appear on top, but instead if most often hiding behind other windows.

If I could get either of these issues resolved it would bring Win-7 back to what it can be, and that would be a relief.

Attached file is a text record of the main display from System Information.