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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Windows AIO repair reparse and registry issues on Windows 10 Pro x64 domain comp

« on: January 05, 2016, 06:40:18 am »

Shane.  I have a windows 10 pro x64 machine that I use as part of a domain environment, meaning the user account I use is pulled from the domain controller as well.  However, I ALSO link my personal microsoft account with my domain joined profile in order to obtain easy access to my onedrive content and have access to advanced features only availbable when microsoft account is synced.  This aspect seems to cause issue with Widows AIO repair, as, when I run a reparse point scan when booted into safe mode, it believes that my imported microsoft account is the main user account and it is missing all its reparse points, even though it was imported solely to be integrated with the domain profile.  Anyway, so if run the reparse fix (have to run twice since it finds errors twice), I proceed with the fixes and and reboot my computer.  Now, when I reboot my computer, it boots noticeable slower than before and certain programs become unresponsive and need to be forcibly closed.  Moreover, when I run any tool which contains a registry cleaner to try to return computer to condition prior to the repairs (I know they are useless, they are just a part of the tools I use), They will find numerous registry errors and fragments.  Upon applying those fixes, I restart computer and.....Windows hangs when attempting to load any user profile.  Could this have somethign to do with joining my microsoft account to my domain account and the mistaken creation of reparse points for the non-existant account?

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General Computer Support / Re: (Solved) BSOD when trying to boot into safe mode from Windows AIO repair

« on: November 12, 2015, 08:17:24 pm »

Good to see you have found the program responsible.

Was that through the laborious install check method ?

Actually no.  The program is a cloud-based antivirus solution and compares the files it scans on your computer to the hashes stored in virustotal.com's database.  Not only that, it doesn't just delete any old file it marks as a virus, but actually ASKS the user and does not prevent access to the file after it has been whitelisted.  According to the information on the programs site, the security software can be installed in 2 different ways: one without offline Antivirus or with offline antivirus.  Since the offline version is coupled with Clam win as its offline virus protection (an AV I'm not fond of by any stretch of the imagination), I installed the version without offline antivirus.  The documentation on secureAplus further states that when installed without offline AV, that it can be used alongside almost any other antivirus solution as a "second line of defense".  So I installed avast.  When I did, I noticed that windows explorer started crashing on me.  Suspicious at this point, I uninstalled secureAplus, and Eureka.  No more crashes or blue screens.  Also, they advertise on their webpage that they are currently gathering testers for the beta of the Windows 10 compatible version.  But am I glad I finally found the cause!  I like windows 10, but it seems to be one-sided, because it has smacked me around quite a bit.

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General Computer Support / Re: BSOD when trying to boot into safe mode from Windows AIO repair

« on: November 11, 2015, 12:35:48 pm »

Solved.  Was running SecureAplus antivirus.  Awesome antivirus since it is the only one I can find that will actually ASK the user if it is ok to delete something before doing so, but it is not compatible with windows 10 yet.

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General Computer Support / Re: BSOD when trying to boot into safe mode from Windows AIO repair

« on: November 07, 2015, 10:39:27 am »

Not quite the answer I was looking for.  I was hoping there was some kind of shortcut I wasn't aware of.  All of the software I use or have even been remotely interested in I obtain the installation medium and store it on a file server.  While I don't use nearly all of it (not even half), that network share has 170 GB of data.  Would much rather not have to reboot to safe mode after every install.  Alas, it seems I don't have a choice.  But thats the nature of the beast with Windows I suppose. 

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General Computer Support / Re: BSOD when trying to boot into safe mode from Windows AIO repair

« on: November 07, 2015, 05:42:08 am »

Ok, after some more troubleshooting, I am 95% sure the error is being caused by some software I am installing: I can boot into safe mode from a clean install, but once I start hardcore installing software, I encounter error.  In my research concerning this issue, since the error i am mostly getting is "page_Fault_in_nonpaged_area", I started there, to which I found a posting stating that the error can be caused by software "which stores data in nonpaged area."  Can somebody explain to me what kind of software would behave this way as well as some more information as to exactly what a "page" is?  Any tips you might have to quickly and efficiently find problem software would be appreciated to.  I'm almost 100% sure it is not hardware because computer is less than 6 months old and i performed extensive RAM and HD tests in UEFI pre-boot environment.  Any advice is appreciated.

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General Computer Support / Re: BSOD when trying to boot into safe mode from Windows AIO repair

« on: November 05, 2015, 03:48:48 pm »

Thank you sir.  Just one more update.  It wasn't the bootrec commands that actually got the computer working again.  I had to re-copy the boot files to the operating system (bcdboot C:\Windows).  This is what allowed me to boot into windows.  Thanks

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General Computer Support / Re: BSOD when trying to boot into safe mode from Windows AIO repair

« on: November 05, 2015, 03:38:37 pm »

So just to make sure everyone understands what is going on, the computer works fine.  Attempting to boot into safe mode in any way, shape or form is what causes the blue screens to occur, which can then be resolved by using bootrec /fixmbr  and bootrec /fixboot.  Something is very wrong with my safe mode.  I'm thinking it might be the how I set up my computer.  I used a winpe image and script (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825089.aspx) to create the disk partitions, copy the winre.wim file (windows recovery tools) to the first "windows recovery tool partition", and used the "reagentc" command (also detailed in above link) to set the recovery image stored on first gpt disk partition as the official place to retrieve the tools from.  I just don't know....

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General Computer Support / Re: BSOD when trying to boot into safe mode from Windows AIO repair

« on: November 05, 2015, 02:14:19 pm »

New update.  I have been able to at least get back into my operating system by running a bunch of bootrec commands from the command prompt in the recovery tools, but still back to square one on why booting into safe mode does this...

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General Computer Support / Re: BSOD when trying to boot into safe mode from Windows AIO repair

« on: November 05, 2015, 02:01:01 pm »

Just tried accessing safe mode from Advanced startup options, and I got another bluescreen, but the returned error this time was "Bad_Pool_Header"

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General Computer Support / (Solved) BSOD when trying to boot into safe mode from Windows AIO repair

« on: November 05, 2015, 01:54:27 pm »

Hello All,
I'm not sure why, but ever since the recent update from 3.6.1 to 3.6.2, more often than not, whenever I attempt to boot into safe mode using the button in Windows AIO repair, either during the restart or during the boot, I get BSOD, "page_fault_in_non_paged_area".  No matter what I do, from startup repair to system restore corrects the issue and I am force to reinstall my operating system.  It only happens when using Windows AIO repair.  For example, if I use Ultimate Virus Killer (UVK) to reboot into safe mode, not issue.  Is anybody else having this issue?  My system has Windows 10 pro x64 using GPT partition format.  HELP

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows repair 3.6.1 not working

« on: October 29, 2015, 07:07:41 pm »

Also, just for those who don't know, when you select the option to boot into safe mode from the Windows AIO repair interface, it DOES boot you into safe mode with networking.  It might be a little confusing since the network icon has the red "x" over it in the tak bar, but try the following steps to verify that you have network access (applicable only for Windows 8/8.1/10):
1) When your desktop loads, press CTRL+ALT+DLT
2) When click on the "network" icon from the CTRL+ALT+DLT screen.
3) If you are wireless, you should see your wireless networks displayed just like normally.  Just select your usual wireless network, click connect, and it will automatically connect you.  However, the network icon in the taskbar WILL NOT change as to indicate that you are connected to a network, even though you are.  If you want to be 100% sure, just launch your internet browser and try going to a website.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows AIO repair tweaks and Windows explorer

« on: October 29, 2015, 07:00:51 pm »

Thank you for your reply.  However, I used the tweak and experienced the issue the day I created the post, so I'm not so sure it is solved.  Plus, the the linked thread in previous post only has a single individual describing the problem and declaring the solution.  As far as completely verifying that "the issue was solved", I would say that it is low to none whatsoever.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: 10-27-2015 - Past Mentally Burned out, Will be back shortly.

« on: October 29, 2015, 06:55:29 pm »

Good god man.  Are you even human?!  I could probably handle that schedule for maybe a week before I'm hospitalized.  Do what you got to do man.  Your family and your health take priority over all else.  My condolences for your family's loss.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Windows AIO repair tweaks and Windows explorer

« on: October 27, 2015, 11:04:13 am »

Hello.  I don't know if this has been reported yet, so if it has I apologize, but I have been having an issue with Windows explorer windows briefly disappearing then re-appearing and have recently identified the cause to be one of the tweaks included in the Windows AIO repair.  Let me elaborate.  The symptom only occurs when you launch a windows explorer window by means of an application (for example double clicking "onedrive" task bar icon to pull up your one drive folder in windows explorer).  If you attempt to navigate anywhere in the windows explorer window which is launched, the windows explorer window will disappear, then reappear displaying the location you tried to navigate to.  I am pretty sure, just do to the nature of the symptoms and how they are triggered, it might be caused by the tweak "Launch windows desktop in a separate process", but it could be any of the general or visual tweaks (those are the only ones I applied).  BTW, this is in Windows 10 x64 PRO.  Tweaks worked fine in Windows 8.1 and 7 x64

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Reparse point repair issue

« on: October 17, 2015, 10:28:02 am »

I have a pretty unique issue that I could use some help with.  I had a computer that was a part of a domain, but the domain controller broke down and the server on which the domain controller ran was rebuilt into another domain controller.  Before I did anything, I used Forensit's profile migration tools to Save a copy of my user profile onto an external drive.  I then left the old, no longer working domain by joining a workgroup.  While I was in the workgroup, I used some powerful tools to force delete the user profile folder in "C:\users" (because my user ID on the new domain is the same as the old).  I then joined the new domain, moved the old data folder into the users profile, and used the tools "reprofiler" and forensit's "user profile manager" to rename and assign the domain account to the old backed up profile.  Everything seems to work great, except when I attempt to use Windows AIO repair and open "scan reparse points", the resulting scan indicates a bunch of reparse point errors, basically stating that all of the junctions for the profile need to be associated with the original profile folder (user.domain) rather than the one I assigned to the profile (user).  How does Windows AIO repair scan for "incorrect" reparse points?  Is there a setting I can modify so that Windows AIO repair will stop trying to recreate the old profile folder?

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General Computer Support / potential bug windows all-in-one repair?

« on: August 11, 2015, 12:57:18 pm »

Hey all,
Didn't see a "bug report" section in the forum, but I wanted the creator of Windows all-in-one repair aware of what I believe to be a potential bug when using the software on windows 10 64-bit.   There are two images attached:
error.jpg shows the results of a reparse point scan for errors
total.jpg shows all reparse points detected by the program.
I have run the program as indicated on Welcome screen: in safe mode as an administrator (I am using the administrator account which I activated), yet Windows AIN repair will not fix the supposed reparse point errors.  To clarify, I select repair, run the scan again, and the same three reparse points just re-appear again and again.  Furthermore, I had noticed in prior operating systems that the command prompt will pop up for every repair being made.  That does not occur in Windows 10 64 bit when the reparse points are being repaired.  Just wanted to improve the progrm, so do with info what you will.  Thanks for the awesome piece of software.