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General Computer Support / Re: Error even after all Tweak repairs used

« on: February 25, 2016, 03:04:42 pm »

What is odd is this error has never happened before and I cant replicate it.

I can fix any bug I can replicate.


In this case there is a unknown variable here that is causing it.

One thing I noticed, the path in the picture goes past the width of the box, yet I dont see any scroll bar at the bottom to show it is wider than the box. I wonder if it is possible that the textbox Im using might not be drawing or updating properly.

Open the repair environment variables in the program and post a screen shot for me. This will let me see if the program is pulling it wrong or not.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't stop Win7 from booting to safe mode

« on: February 25, 2016, 02:52:12 pm »

If my program was able to open in safe mode it would have removed the safe boot option like msconfig does. Did you only get that error in safe mode?

Invaild picture is coming from one of the system files it uses. From what i can find it looks like it might be coming from mscomctl.OCX

Can you go check your syswow64 folder and tell me what version of that file you have?

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: why this ad is menacingly use this website, making firefox crashes

« on: February 25, 2016, 02:45:09 pm »

Those are google ads, i dont have control over them. From the looks of it it was a bad ad.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Tweaking.com - Technicians Toolbox Beta Testing!

« on: February 25, 2016, 02:23:56 pm »

That uses the windows performance monitor to pull that data. If it is coming up empty then make sure your performance monitor is working in windows.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Installing Windows Repair 3.8.2 on Win 10 Build 14257

« on: February 25, 2016, 12:55:13 pm »

Sharing violation means the setup or program tried to access the file but wasnt allowed. This is always caused by your antivirus. Disable the antivirus and install it again and you should be good

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Ransomware picture question

« on: February 25, 2016, 12:54:14 pm »

This is a new virus that is ou and is being sent through email as a doc or other formats claiming to be in invoice. i had a customer who got hit by it.

Once the files are encrypted there is no way to decrypt them yet.

So since the files where lost I just blew the machine away and did a fresh install to be sure that there was no traces left. Since it is a new virus there is a very very good chance that not all traces of it will be caught just yet.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: All repairs staring "Decompressing & updating...." causes Windows Repair to stop

« on: February 25, 2016, 12:52:11 pm »

The default permissions are compressed and so the program has to decompress them. I have never had it lock up doing that. Did you make sure you are running the repairs in safe mode so that no 3rd party program is messing with it?

If so then also do a chkdsk on the drive to look for any bad sectors. If the file getting extracted ended up on a bad sector it would do the same as well.

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Wrong dates in Explorer (MY PC)

« on: February 25, 2016, 12:49:23 pm »

That is the correct way.

When you copied them to your computer they just got created there. So it gets todays date. But the last time the file was actually modified will be the last time it was changed. Thats why I always pay attention to date modified and not date created

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: ntuser.dat files not being backed up and occasional temp profile being created

« on: February 25, 2016, 12:47:54 pm »

Do a chkdsk on the drive. The error from the program means the file was in use and it couldnt back them up. If the profiles where loaded at the same time you would get that error when using the fall back method. If using the VSS method you shouldnt get that error.

Windows will create a temporary profile when it is unable to read the user registry file. So if you are getting that then the file is either locked by another program, is corrupted or there is a file system corruption that chkdsk should fix. Of course if it s a bad sector problem then that means the drive needs replaced.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: > nul in DOS windows wait for [ Enter ] key

« on: February 25, 2016, 12:22:45 pm »

I have two modern Windows 8.1 machines ( multicore, 16 GB ram, lots of drive space ), one works repairs smoothly, the DOS boxes either never show up as it progresses, or they show up, run zippy through their stuff, and close -- also will successfully reboot to safe mode for repairs.

Are you talking about running all the repairs or the command to reboot into safe mode? Are you making sure to run the repairs in safe mode?

The other computer sits at the DOS box and waits, I click in the box, hit [ Enter ], and it moves a step forward, sometimes I have to keep responding to a series of > NUL's, sometimes it finishes on it's own and closes the DOS box, but the next DOS box requires the same babysitting ... through 47 repairs!  Also will not successfully reboot to safe mode so I'm doing repairs in virtual / real mode.

Command windows, or DOS boxes, can be paused. So if a box is open and it is running something and I click in it then it will pause it, this is known as quick edit mode. i have to hit enter to have it go again.
From the sounds of it, you have something that is causing the command window to pause after every new line.

I am not aware of any command or option that does that. I wonder if there is a 3rd party program that might be doing it?

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: modify Windows Paste to add 2 <cr> to the end of every item pasted

« on: February 25, 2016, 12:10:49 pm »

I dont think there is an option like that for the default clipboard. There are however a lot of 3rd party programs that you could use that monitor the clipboard and make changes to it based on what you want.

I dont use any so i dont have any program names off hand, but I have seen them before.

Shane

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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: ESET has a false positiv on the "Advanced System Tweaker Setup"

« on: February 25, 2016, 12:07:28 pm »

It is a false positive, so they most likly had already updated their virus defs by the time you checked the other file

You can always confirm the files are the same by using a program like hashtab and getting the hash values like md5 of the files. If they are different even by 1 byte the md5 hash will be different.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: 3.8.1 - Data protection during the restore disk permissions, folders or files.

« on: February 25, 2016, 12:04:35 pm »

Settings permissions shouldnt corrupt anything. The program calls the Windows API and windows does it. if the file system already has corruptions then that could do it.

I am not sure what I am seeing in the screen shot you posted. Can you explain?

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup folder names

« on: February 25, 2016, 12:02:00 pm »

Actually that API is just for getting the date separator. As for the date and time format the program just calls the built in VB command of Date and Time. So it should be returned as the system tells it.

However! If you have the auto backup set to run as the system account, then I bet that the system account has different regional settings and thus we get the different folder names.

So try this, remove the auto backup and have the program do it under the current user account instead and see if that does the trick

Otherwise if you need it to run from the system account, then one trick you can do is use my technicians toolbox program and use the run as system account tool and load explorer.exe as the system account. Then you should be able to the control panel and change the regional settings for it

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup folder names

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:57:28 am »

Interesting, when the program does the auto backup it is calling the same buttons and commands as when you do a manual one.

I will go double check the code, the program does call the windows API to get it. I wonder if something needs more time or is being missed.

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows installer could not accessed

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:54:01 am »

I didnt see, but did you use the windows repair yet? One of the repairs in my program is "Repair MSI (Windows Installer)" But I normally always recommend running all the repairs as you would be surprised how many things in windows are linked together. At the very least run the permissions repair and the register system files along with Repair MSI (Windows Installer).

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 10 Boots to Black Screen After Running Windows Repair

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:47:39 am »

I have noticed this with Windows 10 as well both in vmware and on my customers machines. My program hasnt been run on these, and even after doing updates or just a random reboot I get the black screen. Sometimes if I leave it for up to an hour it finally goes through, other times I have to restart it into safe mode once and that does the trick or just a normal reboot does it as well.

But after a restart or two it almost always goes through.

The one thing I noticed was that safe mode didnt have the problem. I traced a few of them down to being video driver related, but given how fragile 10 is I am sure there is a ton of different reasons that cause it lol

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Repairing broken apps in Windows 10 Bug.

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:44:24 am »

So far it still isnt fixed even at the end of Feb. Makes me wonder if MS knows about it or if they dont care or if it was on purpose.

I do know that the command only does it to certain apps, not all of them. So i am wondering if I could still use the command but have it skip the ones that it fails on. That would make it to where at least the apps that dont break could still be reinstalled and fixed.

Also the fact that it doesnt do it to some apps and only to certain ones makes me think it has something to do with the install file for them and perhaps a new command that was added or a command that powershell or the app installer is taking wrong.

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: No Windows 10 start button

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:41:24 am »

You werent blocked by me, I have private messages to me disabled because of the large amount of people who would just message me instead of posting in the forums

Shane

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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: Windows 10 works again but ...

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:37:51 am »

Sorry for such a late reply! I have been so slammed that this is my first chance to get back to the forums.

If you wouldn't mind testing, could you see if it is a specific one or a combo of them all. While normally it should cause any programs and never has on older version of Windows, Windows 10 is a very fragile OS that breaks easily if things are not perfect as it wants it. For some reason MS rushed to get it out so fast that they havent done much on error handling.

But given how insane Windows 10 is with permissions, such as if the system account isnt the owner of certain registry keys and even though system account still has full access that the app store would break gives you an idea how it is with permissions. This is why I have to do restore to defaults for the permissions. Maybe the command to add those to the administrators account isnt needed on 10 like it was the others and I can have the program skip it for 10.

So if you can confirm which one I can block just it or all of them

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows Mail

« on: February 25, 2016, 11:33:10 am »

With yahoo mail i am not sure.

If you have pop3 access to your yahoo account then I do have an old tool i wrote like 14 years go that was a pop3 email deleter that logged into the account and deleted all the emails you told it to. It still works i think and I could give you a copy of it.

Otherwise another way is if you have imap access to your yahoo account. If you do you could user thunderbird and setup imap access to it, then have it download the message headers only instead of the whole message, this will make it a lot faster on grabbing them all, then you can do a select all and delete them that way as well.

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Reparse Point

« on: January 31, 2016, 10:12:51 pm »

It should since the pre scan only looks there.

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 10 start and Apps refuses to work on i7-3770K processor

« on: January 31, 2016, 10:12:31 pm »

Make sure you check for any bios updates, also do a memory test as well. While you put the new cpu in it is always possible that something could have gone bad, like the memory. it does happen lol

Weak power supplies can do it as well. But first thing is the bios update, bios updates normally add support for more and newer cpus if they are able, so always good to make sure you have the newest.

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Running over 1 day?

« on: January 31, 2016, 10:04:58 pm »

File permissions, which is repair #2, are stored on the file system, so if you are running the repair in safe mode so no 3rd party program is messing with it, then when it runs that slow either the drive has bad sectors, is really slow and dying, or there is some corruption in the file system. When you run chkdsk it will repair the file system, if there are bad sectors you need to replace the drive.

Once chkdsk is ran and hopfully the files system is fixed see how the repair does then

Shane

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General Computer Support / Re: Missing Reparse Point

« on: January 31, 2016, 10:00:22 pm »

The pre scan looks at each folder under the C:\Users and skips some of the defaults, all others are treated as accounts. I did this because I needed to be sure I had a positive way to know what user accounts are there. So when some programs, such as nvidias update or norton eraser are used, they make their own user accounts to run from, to make sure they are run as admins.

So you see those accounts in there and the per scan treats them like accounts. I had used WMI in the past to pull user accounts, but if WMI is broken then that wouldnt work, then I found the APIS to pull them but if a user was on a domain this could return more accounts then what is actually on the system.

So i took a shortcut and decided to just look at the folders instead. Looks like I may need to update how they are looked at though if there is going to be a lot of programs making sub accounts on the system.

Shane