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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Newest All In One Repair Beaten
« on: November 24, 2011, 09:25:38 pm »
I use avast my self. Never seen this problem before but the fact that we have a perfect 16 min window before things work correctly makes me want to check 3 things right off the bat.

1. Since these services seem to be hung up waiting then lets look at what is able to stop programs from running. The Antivirus. Its a long shot, I personally don't think it is avast but we need to cover all bases.

2. Windows has a delayed start set on some of the services. I haven't ever looked yet, but I wonder what the timeout value is for that.

3. You say the windows repair fixed this before. One thing the services need is access to the reg keys and files. If they don't then you are waiting for windows to timeout the service. But the old version didnt have access to all the keys, the new one does. So it should have helped more. Unless this is a new cause for this bug.

I have seen windows hang waiting for a command queue to finish, then everything comes loading up like mad.

So the trick now is to find out if it is a windows service or program, or a 3rd party program or service causing this.

Do the msconfig and disable all non ms services and then all non ms programs at startup. If the problem still happens then we know we need to look at drivers and windows services.
If the problem doesn't happen then we know it is a 3rd party program :wink:

Lets go from there :-)

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Corruption
« on: November 23, 2011, 04:34:29 pm »
The system sounds screwed big time. And more as reg key settings and such and not permissions. Things are out of whack and a reinstall would cure everything.

Problem is, you don't have a cd to install with!

If you have your cd code (Should be on the sticker if it is a store bought machine)

Just get your hands on an install disk and use that keycode and you should be good. You could try a repair install first to see if it fixes things.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Simple Performance Boost
« on: November 22, 2011, 01:10:31 pm »
I made those tweaks years ago and went through the same thing. Ended up just having them either on or off :wink:

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Corruption
« on: November 22, 2011, 11:21:50 am »
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You ever think of doing anything like sysinternals?  Like Process Explorer, for example? That would make your site even cooler- and great stuff,too by the way! Many snaps on windows repair!!
I love sysinternals :-) In fact it is thanks to some of their tools that the windows repair tool works so well. I am slowly building more and more apps. My pcwintech.com site has around 2 dozen or more programs and tweaking.com has over 2 dozen now as well.

I am starting a new program called advanced system tweaker.

Here is what I would like you to do since it seems there is no infections.

First this rootkit is the most common, make sure you dont have it, run tdsskill.exe to make sure.
http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208280684

After that run the windows repair, have it do all the repairs.
http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html

After you rebooted run my simple performance boost.
http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/simple_performance_boost.html

Under the visual tweaks make sure to have it turn off the vista glass effect. Along with the other tweaks this should help your system feel snappier.

Of course before any of this make sure to do a backup.

As for the antivirus I have no favorite.
All of them have something I don't like and no AV is perfect and a virus will always find a way through.

Avira I use to use but they sold out and do the stupid ask toolbar. Not as a add on but they made it part of the AV! Sellouts, so I dumped them.
I used Microsoft for a while. It didn't do as good on the scans but it wasn't to bad. The bad thing about? It has the slower scanner on the market. I did test and found that it slowed the system down because every program you open your waiting for MS to finish scanning it.

Then I tried panda cloud antivirus. This worked fine and was faster but had bugs. Blue screens and very few options. When it found what it thinks is a virus it doesn't ask you want to do it just does it.

So after all that I went back to Avast free. Faster scanner on the market and the memory never goes about 30 mb. I was impressed. It isn't perfect as well but so far its the better of the 2 evils. :wink:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_od_aug2011.pdf

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Corruption
« on: November 21, 2011, 10:29:17 pm »
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By the way, Hitman Pro insists that there's a trojan in the tweaking.com windows repair program.
Another false positive. Question is, is it flagging the windows repair itself or just the setup file?

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I don't have one of those,nor do I have blank disks to burn a repair cd. How the hell are you supposed to replace corrupt system files?
Thats why you need to get your hands on a cd of what ever OS you have. You may need to see about getting a copy off the net. Not an illegal one, just a setup disk. You already own the license.

Speaking of which what version of windows are you on?

And another thing we need to ask, why are files getting corrupted in the first place? Have you ran a chkdsk on the drive and also had it check for bad sectors? If not it wouldn't be a bad idea. But keep in mind the check for bad sectors can take a long time.

A lot of errors can be permissions problems, the windows repair will help with that. But first lets make sure that drive is safe. So do that scan on the sectors :wink:

From there have you checked for any infections? A combo of the tdsskiller.exe, malwarevytes and avast scans usually work well.

Once the hard drive has been scanned and you verify the system is clean then give the windows repair tool a run. Run all the repairs. but do a backup first. While it will and should fix a lot of things you never know if there will be any side effects. Its always a good idea to be safe.

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I'm not a total newbie at this stuff,so you don't have to dumb it down when you're explaining how stupid I am
I never treat people like they are stupid. :smiley:

I am off to bed, let me know how things go :wink:

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Simple Performance Boost
« on: November 21, 2011, 01:09:23 pm »
Let me know what you find out.

I am still working hard on the new advanced system tweaker :-)

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Simple Performance Boost
« on: November 21, 2011, 12:27:38 pm »
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-- SPB states that these tweaks either can be switched on together or switched off together only because they share the same reg keys. But Windows (XP) on my laptop clearly suggests that I can individually tweak/manipulate each option, each with a separate box (Start, Configuration, System, Advanced, (visual Settings)). :confused: See attachment (this is the dutch version of the menu that allows the user to set those visual options). Or has these options/boxes removed from Vista & Windows 7 ?

That is because the reg key used for those is a hex key. Change 1 part of the key and part of the hex is changed. I have the values for turning them all on or off. But I don't know how the values are suppose to be when they are mixed.

An example of what the reg key looks like:
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4162193956-2004064655-172555002-1000\Control Panel\Desktop]
"UserPreferencesMask"=hex:9E,3E,07,80,12,00,00,00

Shane

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Everything Else / Re: Simple performance boost program
« on: November 14, 2011, 08:41:25 pm »
No new tweaks. Just some code tweaks.

All new tweaks will be going into a new program  :wink:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=187587774658640&set=pu.120063348077750&type=1&theater

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Services reset to default in newest version of Windows Repair All In One
« on: November 07, 2011, 04:48:08 pm »
New version is out :-)

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Services reset to default in newest version of Windows Repair All In One
« on: November 07, 2011, 04:37:45 pm »
blackvipers site lists the wlan services in windows 7 (The wireless service) as set to manual.
But when I set my wife's to manual and rebooted the service doesn't start. It has to be to set to auto.

I will put out v1.5.1 in the next 15 min to fix this :-)

Thanks for the heads up!

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Services reset to default in newest version of Windows Repair All In One
« on: November 07, 2011, 04:22:06 pm »
What I mean is, the repair will put it to manual.

If the wireless isn't starting with manual then that's the problem and I just need to change it to auto :-)

Let me know.

I am testing on my laptop right now as well. :wink:

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Services reset to default in newest version of Windows Repair All In One
« on: November 07, 2011, 04:12:46 pm »
See if your wlan service is running :wink:

The wlan service is set to manual
Wlansvc = demand

Perhaps it needs to be auto?

Check that and let me know.

Shane

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Everything Else / Re: disk error check program
« on: November 05, 2011, 08:54:15 pm »
Good to hear. :-)

What got you fixed?

Shane

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Everything Else / Re: disk error check program
« on: November 05, 2011, 07:21:00 pm »
Also this is what the program does to set it
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil.mspx?mfr=true

Shane

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Everything Else / Re: disk error check program
« on: November 05, 2011, 07:18:16 pm »
I will get the how to for you.

In the mean time, did the error check fail or is windows having trouble?

You can also run the disk check on the external drive in windows, tell it to fix any problems and that should unset it as well. :wink:

Shane

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Everything Else / Re: disk error check program
« on: November 05, 2011, 07:14:20 pm »
The program just sets the dirty bit flag on the drive to tell windows to scan it.
All you need to do is unset the flag.

When windows scans the disk it is suppose to unset the dirty bit.

Is it not undoing it and it keeps scanning the external drive?

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: I have a few thoughts on Simple Performance Boost 1.0.3.
« on: November 04, 2011, 11:40:32 pm »
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963880.aspx :wink:

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: I have a few thoughts on Simple Performance Boost 1.0.3.
« on: November 04, 2011, 10:33:56 am »
Your right, right now the program sets them back to default. Currently is you take a check off the boxes right above the apply button it will skip those sections and not set anything.

While it would be better to do that per tweak, right now you can do it per section.

You can always look up what the program changes it to in the reg under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters


Windows default is 86400
My program puts it to 3600

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Battlefield 2142
« on: November 02, 2011, 12:43:56 pm »
When gaming you want to try to keep other people off the net as much as possible. Also close any programs downloading in the background.

If something else is using up the connection speed then your ping will get spikes :wink:

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Battlefield 2142
« on: November 01, 2011, 10:29:12 am »
Yeah looks like they have the game made not to let you have anything open on top of it.

Myself, I use a 2nd monitor on my system to keep things open while I game :wink: (Monitors, stats, memory, network, ping, email, chat)

Also keep in mind that the pin will make a difference on which server you connect to .
While some will give you a bad ping others will give you a good ping. It all depends on the router the connect has to take to get to the server and back.

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Battlefield 2142
« on: November 01, 2011, 09:45:42 am »
Are you talking about ping in a command window?
Or are you talking about this program?
http://www.pcwintech.com/simple-ping

Both only show you what your current ping is, it doesnt lower your ping :wink:

Shane

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Everything Else / Re: speed configuration
« on: November 01, 2011, 09:43:46 am »
Thats just your wireless card speed, not your internet connection speed. As long as your internet speed you pay for is 10 mb or less your getting full speed.

You can always update your drivers for the wireless card, that will help get your wireless working like it was. :wink:

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Simple Performance Boost 1.0.3 issue & question
« on: October 27, 2011, 03:02:06 pm »
The services tweaks info is all in just one box. The reason I did this was because of the check boxes on the right. If you mouse over them then move the mouse to the info box it would cross over the others, thus changing it. So all the info for the services is in one. You will notice the info box is scrollable :-)

"If I use Windows Search 4.0, disabling search indexer will affect Windows Search? I'm not sure if Windows Search depends on this service."

I think it should, so try it and see. With all the tweaks if you take the check mark off and hit apply it will put them back to the Windows default :wink:

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Notepad appear on screen every time
« on: October 27, 2011, 11:56:00 am »
Not sure as well. It wouldn't happen every time for him. Open it sometimes and it was fine, other times took forever.

MS was great otherwise. I just don't understand why MS would let their AV have the slowest scanner on the market. Oh well. So far Panda has done great and stopped the slow downs.

Anyways back to this topic LOL

Shane

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Notepad appear on screen every time
« on: October 27, 2011, 11:32:09 am »
Quote from: friedmonky on October 27, 2011, 11:23:22 am
I've only seen MS slow down old XP machines with 512MB of ram.  :cheesy:  If MS slows down any Win7 machine after installation, I guarantee you that that particular machine has already been compromised in some way, either viral or failing hardware.

Let's just agree to disagree on this because we could go on forever and you're right, we're getting way off topic here.  :smiley:

You know what they say about opinions right?  :cheesy:

Everyone has there likes :-)

Try this next time. Open task manager on a new windows 7 machine. Go open an exe that is a good size and watch the MS AV process max one of the cores and the program not open till it is done.

New machine for a customer (3.4 ghz 4 core, 8Gb ram, Mirrored WD enterprise drives), fresh install, not infected. They where opening a program that was 11 mb in size. Program took 11 secs to open. Watched the MS AV sit there and scan it then the program would open. Removed MS and the program opens in under 2 sec. Even with panda on it.

It was those types of things that made me dump it.

Just because something isn't working the best doesn't mean right off the bat that the machine is infected. :wink:

Im just damn picky. When almost everyone of my customers complained of the system being slow on opening programs compared to what it was before hehe.

Shane

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