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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: edit schedule

« on: July 09, 2012, 06:25:57 am »

All programs have always something to fix, even after beta releases. Most important thing in these cases is the support provided by the program's developer(s).
But yours is a different thing, because you're complaining about a Microsoft feature without to explain us what is the exact problem that you've received in your laptop.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: edit schedule

« on: July 09, 2012, 05:27:17 am »

Shane
I have clicked on everything in the task scheduler and none of us can see

"just right click on the schedule for the reg repair and hit properties "

Where is that?

Is there an easier way? than configuring the task scheduler which is hard unless you have been there before.

This extra step doesn't make it only for advanced users, as you wrote before.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: July 08, 2012, 02:20:21 pm »

Sorry to disturb you again, but I have just another doubt. 

I loaded ntuser.dat as hive in regedit, but I can't find any Volatile Environment subkey, as you can see in this image:
http://s11.postimage.org/tvay0f2vn/hive_vs_restored.png

Is it normal to not have this subkey in my backupped ntuser.dat?

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: July 08, 2012, 01:52:34 pm »

This time restore the user profiles but not the system reg files and let me know how it goes

Restoring only the user profiles I solved my issue. Now all restored files have their old files.
I can't imagine how much work it will be required for you to fix it in a new release.

Anyway, thank you for your support. You're very kind, as always.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: July 08, 2012, 01:38:02 pm »

Any bak files in the system32/config?

Shane

No more bak there, but only old files:

C:\Windows\System32\Config\default.old
C:\Windows\System32\Config\sam.old
C:\Windows\System32\Config\security.old
C:\Windows\System32\Config\software.old
C:\Windows\System32\Config\system.old

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: July 08, 2012, 01:34:02 pm »

It didn't work, I'm afraid.

I have no bak file this time, but the music didn't change.

My registry tweaks are still there.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: July 08, 2012, 01:24:29 pm »

The .bak are the old registry files before the restore. They are safe to delete.

The log files Windows creates, so dont delete them

Like I said my program should be deleting them before each restore, unless they where locked for some reason.

Shane

I have also:

C:\Windows\System32\Config\default.bak
C:\Windows\System32\Config\sam.bak
C:\Windows\System32\Config\security.bak
C:\Windows\System32\Config\software.bak
C:\Windows\System32\Config\system.bak

One minute, and I'll let you know.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: July 08, 2012, 01:17:33 pm »

I have NTUSER.DAT.BAK also in:

C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService

and three log files in all of them (NTUSER.DAT.LOG, NTUSER.DAT.LOG1, NTUSER.DAT.LOG2)

Can I delete them from those folders?

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: July 08, 2012, 01:01:29 pm »

ntuser.dat
Creation date: ‎may 25th ‎2012, ‏‎15:43:55   Last edit: Today july 8th ‎2012, ‏‎1 minute ago Last access: Today july 8th ‎2012, ‏‎40 minutes ago

ntuser.dat.BAK
Creation date: ‎may 25th ‎2012, ‏‎15:43:55   Last edit: Tuesday june 5th ‎2012, ‏‎22:49:55  Last access: Tuesday june 5th ‎2012, ‏‎22:49:55

‎

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: July 08, 2012, 12:50:43 pm »

In your profile you should see a ntuser.old

Is it there?

Shane

I see two files, ntuser.dat and ntuser.dat.BAK.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: July 08, 2012, 12:45:15 pm »

When you did the restore did you reboot?

Also did you only restore the one reg file or all of them?

Can you also post the restore log?

Shane

1) Yes, of course.
2) All of them.
3)

Code: [Select]

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Starting Restore...

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Backup Location: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Files To Restore:
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Windows\System32\Config\default
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Windows\System32\Config\default

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Windows\System32\Config\sam
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Windows\System32\Config\sam

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Windows\System32\Config\security
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Windows\System32\Config\security

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Windows\System32\Config\software
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Windows\System32\Config\software

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Windows\System32\Config\system
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Windows\System32\Config\system

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Users\NEROILO\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Users\NEROILO\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Users\NEROILO\ntuser.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Users\NEROILO\ntuser.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Users\Default User\ntuser.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Users\Default User\ntuser.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Users\Default\ntuser.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Users\Default\ntuser.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\ntuser.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\ntuser.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] To: C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\ntuser.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] From: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\NEROILO-W7\08.07.2012_19.48.51\C\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\ntuser.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Restoring Files...:
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Restoring File: C:\Windows\System32\Config\default
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Windows\System32\Config\default
C:\Windows\System32\Config\default.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Result: Successful - C:\Windows\System32\Config\default

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Restoring File: C:\Windows\System32\Config\sam
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Windows\System32\Config\sam
C:\Windows\System32\Config\sam.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Result: Successful - C:\Windows\System32\Config\sam

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Restoring File: C:\Windows\System32\Config\security
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Windows\System32\Config\security
C:\Windows\System32\Config\security.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Result: Successful - C:\Windows\System32\Config\security

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:44] Restoring File: C:\Windows\System32\Config\software
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:45] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Windows\System32\Config\software
C:\Windows\System32\Config\software.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:45] Result: Successful - C:\Windows\System32\Config\software

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:45] Restoring File: C:\Windows\System32\Config\system
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Windows\System32\Config\system
C:\Windows\System32\Config\system.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Result: Successful - C:\Windows\System32\Config\system

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Restoring  File: C:\Users\NEROILO\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Users\NEROILO\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat
C:\Users\NEROILO\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Result: Successful - C:\Users\NEROILO\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Restoring  File: C:\Users\NEROILO\ntuser.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Users\NEROILO\ntuser.dat
C:\Users\NEROILO\ntuser.dat.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Result: Successful - C:\Users\NEROILO\ntuser.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Restoring  File: C:\Users\Default User\ntuser.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Users\Default User\ntuser.dat
C:\Users\Default User\ntuser.dat.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Result: Successful - C:\Users\Default User\ntuser.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Restoring  File: C:\Users\Default\ntuser.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Users\Default\ntuser.dat
C:\Users\Default\ntuser.dat.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Result: Successful - C:\Users\Default\ntuser.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Restoring  File: C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\ntuser.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\ntuser.dat
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\ntuser.dat.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Result: Successful - C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\ntuser.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Restoring  File: C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\ntuser.dat
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] C:\Windows\temp\reg_restore\C\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\ntuser.dat
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\ntuser.dat.old
[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] Result: Successful - C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\ntuser.dat

[08/07/2012 - 21:17:46] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------



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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: July 08, 2012, 12:38:54 pm »

I did a backup with v1.2.1 before to apply a registry tweak (disablefullrowselect.reg).
The problem is that I restored "successfully" this backup with the restore button on Windows, but I can still see all modified entries at their place.

For example, if I load as hive my backup version of ntuser.dat in regedit, FullRowSelect entry is not present. But I can still see it after the restore in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.

For me it seems an unsuccessful restore, but for the program is a successful restore. 

Windows 7 x64.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 29, 2012, 04:43:14 pm »

The registry are just files. If you have access to the files in the windows repair area you can simply copy them to another folder

Shane

No doubt, but I'd like to create a batch file that reproduces exactly Registry backup folder structure (with respective files, of course).

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 29, 2012, 04:00:03 pm »

I'm using Registry Backup 1.2.0 portable version, but with surphttp://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,278.210.htmlrise I discovered it isn't really portable because it writes recovery console values in registry and a tweaking file in c:\windows.

I think it would be great:

1) an uninstall script in general to restore previous settings and deleting all files generated from the program.
2) generating a dedicated log file (history) of all written values or files created from the program, in the root of the Registry Backup's folder (including previous default values).

And another question... how can I create a registry backup from Windows Vista & 7 Repair Options?

It could be useful to backup a new Windows installation without any registry edit.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 22, 2012, 01:33:13 pm »

WMIDiag often reports services not installed, not used or disabled on our system.

I think it's aimed mostly for enterprise users than home users.

However, if you have rebuilded the WMI repository, you should notice a performance boost when you try to open event viewer or task scheduler.
Except the fact you may have need to re-run the setup of some 3rd party products.

This is the MS advice:

Warning: Rebuilding the WMI repository has resulted in some 3rd party products not working until their setup is re-run & their MOF re-added back to the repository.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 22, 2012, 08:20:05 am »

I found two useful articles of suggested hotfixes for WMI related issues (constantly updated):
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2011/08/05/suggested-hotfixes-for-wmi-related-issue-on-windows-platforms.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1398.list-of-wmi-related-hotfixes-for-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2-en-us.aspx

WMI is strictly connected to IPV6. So, disabling IPV6, you disable some WMI calls:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa822883%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

It sounds like a flawed WMI implementation.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 17, 2012, 04:34:27 am »

Let me know how it goes.

And for the system account, is it set for at system startup or log on? Which ever one it is try switching it to the other and see if you still have the problem

Shane

There is no difference in behavior betwen "at logon" or at "startup".
Updating Network card drivers didn't help here.

A good workaround is disabling IPV6 through network connection properties:
http://support.microsoft.com/Library/Images/2635887.png

or, you can delay your task for 2 or more minutes after logon without disabling IPV6 (delay is not supported in XP task scheduler).

This last method helps a lot, but you can't use schedule buttons in the program to create or edit your task, because they will reset delay task function to none every time you push them.

UPDATE: I removed "delay task" and set my task to run (again) "at windows startup". Now I have no error messages, while before "at windows startup" setting didn't do anything to stop error messages.
The only difference is that this time I created a new task from W7-64 task scheduler instead to use your program for it.
Maybe this is the reason because "at windows startup" option didn't work before.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 16, 2012, 04:03:38 pm »

I installed the hotfix, but it didn't solve my issue... only disabling IPV6 stops it. 
Tomorrow I'll try to update my network adapter drivers and/or changing my network card settings.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 16, 2012, 01:52:07 pm »

It runs fine when you run it normally, but when running under the system account it crashes?

And the error shows that the ntdll.dll is causing the crash. That is a very odd one.

What I need to find out is it something with your system or the timing at which it is being ran under the system account?

Schedule it to run under the system account, then go to the task scheduler and manually start it. Does it still crash or does it only crash at system startup?

Shane

It crashes only at system startup. Starting task manually I have no crash.

Update: I have just disabled IPV6, no crash in event viewer this time.

Solution:
1) Disable IPV6

We disabled IPv6 using the documented way over at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929852
It will not break anything long as you only make the changes in that document. For what it is worth I would make a note of the configuration in the network adapter properties.
Once you have completed the IPv6 disable, we re-run the Internet Connection Wizard and Fix My Network wizard.

or
2) If you have already Windows 7 SP1, install this hotfix:
Remote procedure call service crashes on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

Source:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbusinessserver/thread/16cac6e4-ffb5-4920-b48e-0f484ae8c8ff/

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 16, 2012, 07:16:11 am »

Currently having it run under the system account keeps it hidden since it isnt being ran on your account.

When I run my task under system account at logon (with your default settings), I have some issues in event viewer.

Event id: 1000
Appname: TweakingRegistryBackup.exe, versione: 1.2.0.0, timestamp: 0x4fd62508
Mod name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, timestamp: 0x4ec49b8f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Offset error 0x00033792
ID process: 0x854
App path: D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\TweakingRegistryBackup.exe
Module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report ID: 90bc9d02-b7bb-11e1-a065-e0cb4e2c5802

In attachment there is a complete report created from Windows7 x64.

Apart from that, backup is correctly created in D:\BACKUP\Sync\Registry\.

I don't have any other task at logon and my startup programs are logitech setpoint and microsoft security essentials.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 15, 2012, 03:17:54 pm »

Last 1.2.0 version is really stable to me. 

I have created a new task from the button "Create schedule", but at the logon I can see the entire gui during backup operations... a bit invasive imho.

1) Can you consider to display the loading window without including the rest of interface (but only for /silent parameter)? 
2) Can you implement a switch parameter like "nogui" to exclude completely any interface during backup?
3) When you create a task, it appears only a basic window compiled with a few options (i.e. there isn't delay task function introduced for the first time in Vista).
Otherwise you could list in your FAQ all ways to customize your task according to your needs.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 11, 2012, 03:24:16 am »

Have you seen this program "RegBak 1.2"http://www.acelogix.com/freeware.html it seems to be like ERUNT, it backups 6 registry entries then I tried it. Only 1 registry entry in "User Registry Files" 

I use Regback with Windows 7 x64, and in my backup folder I have an "Users" Folder containing 3 ntusers.dat files of different size and 1 UsrClass.dat file.

[DATA5]
Type=USERS\S-1-5-20
Saved=Users\1\NTUSER.DAT
Hive=C:\Windows\SERVIC~2\NETWOR~1\NTUSER.DAT
Category=4
[DATA6]
Type=USERS\S-1-5-19
Saved=Users\2\NTUSER.DAT
Hive=C:\Windows\SERVIC~2\LOCALS~1\NTUSER.DAT
Category=4
[DATA7]
Type=USERS\S-1-5-21-4195982347-1696745222-3389160519-1000
Saved=Users\3\NTUSER.DAT
Hive=C:\Users\neroilo\NTUSER.DAT
Category=2
[DATA8]
Type=USERS\S-1-5-21-4195982347-1696745222-3389160519-1000_Classes
Saved=Users\4\UsrClass.dat
Hive=C:\Users\neroilo\AppData\Local\MICROS~1\Windows\UsrClass.dat
Category=2
[Files]
0=SYSTEM
1=SOFTWARE
2=DEFAULT
3=SECURITY
4=SAM
5=Users\1\NTUSER.DAT
6=Users\2\NTUSER.DAT
7=Users\3\NTUSER.DAT
8=Users\4\UsrClass.dat

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 10, 2012, 02:20:01 am »

Is it possible to have an "apply" button for changes to take effect or maybe write that the user have to restart the program for changes to take effect?

I don't agree so much with it. If it were possible, I'd prefer an immediate activation when you check fallback option.

Other things to fix:
1) Program window is not resizable.
2) A few AV software detect vss_start.exe, vss_pause.exe, TweakingRegistryBackup.exe as dangerous:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/1e61c76d7e04e7a98d50fdf1f1645bf6f2c9b1c94b4b2b24ecc0a71e0f257309/analysis/1339318357/
https://www.virustotal.com/file/3ae8c974c40fdf7e4e08a432792047e80d82e2c86ec59270c2c95c4560263472/analysis/1339318542/
https://www.virustotal.com/file/a541fd17bc4b6f47d3402e5589a8f662029ae7be3ca607b5fb5d88f93386c782/analysis/1339321482/

You could try to report a false positive following these links:
http://analysis.avira.com/samples/index.php
http://cgi.clamav.net/sendfp.cgi
http://community.trendmicro.com/t5/Business-Security-Forum/Submitting-False-positives-by-Trend-Micro/td-p/69282

3) If you try to run a backup (it doesn't matter if you're using VSS or not) on a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine, it will crash the entire VM (at least with Virtualbox).

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 09, 2012, 02:16:55 pm »

No problem here. I have a Windows XP virtual machine ready for any kind of test.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup Beta

« on: June 04, 2012, 05:11:25 am »

If VSS service results corrupted, could this program use registry APIs in place of VSS?
I wouldn't like to use also ERUNT expressly for that.