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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Creating System Restore Point from within WRAIO

« on: December 18, 2017, 06:33:35 am »

Thanks - have a great Christmas and New Year.

Iain

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Creating System Restore Point from within WRAIO

« on: December 15, 2017, 11:25:06 pm »

Yes, it is confusing - I use Tree Size and examining those folders in the past has given me a headache - I was getting problems with the size of my SVI folder growing uncontrollably with Malwarebytes (happily resolved with later versions of the software) and making sense of what was going on was difficult. My main concern is that, when I have created a Restore Point using WRAIO, I've not been able to restore from it, so I don't trust it. By and large, Windows 7's inbuilt restore process has always worked for me. But it's always belt and braces for me - a combination of regular bootable backups and restore point backups to external detachable media using Casper 10 alongside registry backups in WRAIO and restore point creation in Windows.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Creating System Restore Point from within WRAIO

« on: December 15, 2017, 05:21:34 am »

Thanks - as I said, it's no big deal for me but could be catastrophic for someone who hasn't created a system backup and is relying on the restore point "created" within WRAIO.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Creating System Restore Point from within WRAIO

« on: December 15, 2017, 02:54:31 am »

I've brought this up before but creating a Windows System Restore point from within Window Repair All-in-One still doesn't seem to work properly, at least in Windows 7 Home Premium. It says it's created a Restore Point, and it shows up Windows Restore, but the backup process is completed extremely quickly and I can't believe it's a reliable Restore Point. I've just tried creating one again this morning and the situation is as before. I never use WRAIO to create a Restore Point, but a novice user might.

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General Computer Support / Re: Can't get updates tried all I know...Help!

« on: November 27, 2017, 12:02:37 am »

I have a Dell Inspiron 5737 Windows 8.1Pro x64 Core i7 8GB
I believe my problem is from the nut behind the keyboard. I have many files that need to be replaced but I have no idea how and what they are. I don't want windows 10, and I had a Microsoft Technician stop the windows 10 from updating back when it was aggressively updating on PC's, he removed a lot of files(updates) from working. So I don't know if that is why things started to go downhill. I have been getting a hard drive failure when testing it, but it was still working good. I have done some cleaning and maintenance and probably messed things up dealing with the registry.
So I need someone who can see if I can repair these problems or if I need to get a new hard drive which Dell tells me do, but they didn't try to see or fix anything. I need to know or try repairs first.
 I appreciate any help or information!
Thank you!
Liz

Hi Liz,

While we're waiting for someone more experienced to give you specific advice, I'd urge you to ensure that you have a backup strategy in place and that all your important files are backed up before you do anything else. If Dell tell you that your drive is defective, it is likely to fail at any time and put all your data at risk. If you don't have a strategy in place, you can at the minimum copy your important documents across to writable dvd(s) or USB drives in the interim but I would recommend you use something like Macrium Reflect https://www.macrium.com/reflect free or my favourite paid solution Casper 10 from FSS who I know are having a 50% off Black Monday deal today only https://www.fssdev.com/shop/ (I have absolutely no connection with them, just used them for years) to create a system image or bootable clone. Good luck!

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows 7 and WMI

« on: September 16, 2017, 10:38:04 pm »

No problems - though it's something that needs fixing (not your memory😀).

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows 7 and WMI

« on: September 16, 2017, 09:58:12 am »

Others have also commented on the actual restore point not being created in Win 10 even though it says it has with a date and time stamp.

There's no such problem in Win 7.

Initially from Win 8 a new restore point wouldn't be created within 24hrs of the last one but Shane has told me that WR changes that frequency, although it hasn't resolved it for me and the restriction has never applied because of the time difference of days since the last one was created.

It is the same on both of my upgraded Win 10 laptops.

It's better to rely on the Registry Backup than on any restore point WR has said it has created, but unless you know about the lack of physical restore points and you try to restore from within the program then you could have problems.

I'll raise this again to see if it can be resolved.

Actually, Boggin, I've found that System Restore points are not reliably created on my laptop under Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit from within WRAIO but work OK when created and restored using the inbuilt Windows 7 procedures. I've reported this before.

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 7 Ult 64 bit trapped by BSD and can not get out.

« on: August 30, 2017, 05:37:48 am »

Hi Boggin

Backup / imaging software

I'm a long term user and great advocate of Casper, now in version 10, from Future Systems Solutions -
 https://www.fssdev.com/products/casper/. It's not free, but I've found it totally reliable and the support is first rate.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: A sneak preview of V4

« on: July 26, 2017, 10:44:36 pm »

Well it has been a disaster for me running v4.0 on my Win 7 laptop.

The machine was frozen after the reboot on completion of the repairs so booted up into Safe Mode with Networking to use the program's registry back up but it was even frozen in that mode.

Power shut down again and booted up into Safe Mode with Command Prompt and ran the cmd rstrui.exe to get to my restore points.

Selected the one I'd created prior to updating to v4.0 which took about 30 mins only to find that when I opened 3.9.36 that it had corrupt files.

Downloaded 3.9.36 only to find that it would only download v4.0.

Time to use my system images just to find it couldn't find any images on either of the external HDDs I use alternatively.

Booted up into Safe Mode with Networking to open the program to see what registry back ups there were and chose one for the 11th June, which was probably too far back - it was as I just ended up with a black screen and a white arrow.

I've booted up with an install disk to use the System Restore and it's currently restoring back to the 18th June.

When I did a scan for affected programs, Windows Repair wasn't even listed, so I await with apprehension as to what it's going to give me.

I think I may have to factory reset the machine which is a job and a half in itself, but I'm still going to be stuck with v4.0 when I reinstall the programs if it still doesn't find any images on those ext. HDDs after.

@ Boggin

Sorry to hear about your woes - in the light of these problems, I'm not going to try any more experiments with v 4.0 for the moment. I use Casper 10 to make complete bootable backups to duplicate physical hard drives so things are somewhat different for me. The only repair I've yet made with v 4.0 has been to run the Firewall repair option on W7 to clear left-over entries. I really hope you can get your Windows 7 laptop back to normal without too much grief.

@ Julian

Do you have a link to the latest previous version,  3.9.6, just in case I want to reinstall until v 4.0 problems are resolved? I'm pretty sure I don't have a copy as the last couple of times I updated, I did it from within WRAIO.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: A sneak preview of V4

« on: July 26, 2017, 11:50:04 am »

So it will have physically created the restore point in Win 7 as it does in my Win 7.

While I haven't tried to restore with it, my problem is that it doesn't physically create a restore point in my Win 10.

Can you create another restore point both though the program and through System Protection and take the same precautions as I have to recover from a system image when you try the restores through System Protection and then through the program.

Doing the System Protection created one first will tell you if they are working.

Try both in Safe Mode to eliminate an antivirus program from interfering.

I'll try and do that tomorrow and report back.........

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: A sneak preview of V4

« on: July 26, 2017, 05:22:16 am »

@Boggin

Yes, you're right - the Create a Restore Point option in WRAIO doesn't work, certainly in W7. I created a restore point using WRAIO (which was a suspiciously fast operation), installed a program and then attempted to roll back by restoring using Windows' inbuilt System Restore. All proceeded as expected until Windows restarted when I got the message below:-

System Restore
System Restore did not complete successfully. Your computer's system files and
settings were not changed
Details:
System Restore failed to extract the original copy of the directory from the restore
point.
Source
%SystemRoot%registration
Destination: ComPlusStaging
You can try System Restore again and choose a different restore point. If you
continue to see this error, you can try an advanced recovery method. For more
information, see What is Recovery?
Run System Restore
Close

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: A sneak preview of V4

« on: July 26, 2017, 12:31:21 am »

@ Boggin

I'll have a play around with the restore points creation process in WR later when I get a chance and see how things work for me. I usually create any restore points from a shortcut direct the Windows process rather than from within the Tweaking.com program.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: A sneak preview of V4

« on: July 25, 2017, 11:20:36 pm »

Boggin,

Sorry, I'm still on Windows 7. I have the Registry Backup element of the program set to create an automatic backup every day if I fire up the laptop,  which works smoothly, and have the option ticked to create only one auto backup a day, so I don't create multiple backups per day unnecessarily. However, having that option ticked means that if you want to create a manual registry backup later that day, it won't do it unless you get rid of or move the auto backup for the day or temporarily toggle off the option to only create one auto backup per day. I have raised the issue but it's not been addressed. I realise the Registry Backup tool is not modified in WRAIO v4.0 but it would be nice to change this behaviour.

Pro fix,

I downloaded v 4.0 and installed over v3 Pro, then chose to upgrade to the v 4.0 Pro version, when I was taken through a payment process where I used PayPal to cough up 11 GBP plus VAT, which I was happy to do. During the process, there was some mention of 'modifying my product key to work with v 4.0' and then all was sunshine and light, with all features enabled.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: A sneak preview of V4

« on: July 25, 2017, 10:20:36 am »

Looks good - couldn't wait to download and then to upgrade to the Pro version. Thanks to Shane and all involved for a great utility!!!

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Somehow, Windows Repair All-In-One Has Made Things Worse For Me !

« on: June 10, 2017, 11:30:27 pm »

Well that's okay.

I had explained in my Reply #5 how to change the DNS servers in the computer.

This article may be of interest to you regarding DNS servers - https://www.howtogeek.com/122845/htg-explains-what-is-dns/

I forgot until I needed to change the DNS servers on a friend's computer the other day that Shane has a small program to do just that - http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/tweaking_com_change_dns_servers.html

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General Computer Support / Re: (solved)why cat and mum board is closed? pl let me know

« on: May 28, 2017, 05:59:37 am »

Hi Boggin,

Great news about v 4.00 - is there any projected release date yet?

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup still leaving empty folder remnants in backup folder

« on: May 21, 2017, 03:09:26 am »

Thanks, Boggin

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Registry Backup still leaving empty folder remnants in backup folder

« on: May 21, 2017, 12:37:34 am »

I tried to add to this thread, but it appears to be locked http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,5191.msg38156.html#msg38156

I'm using the latest version of WRAIO 3.9.31 Pro, incorporating the latest version of Registry Backup. In the thread mentioned above I pointed out that RB was leaving empty folder remnants in the Registry Backup folder - I have it set to create a new backup once only when I boot up the computer with a limit to the number of backups so the oldest is erased, with the additional instructions to keep a minimum number of backups. The contents of the oldest backup folders are being erased but the folders remain.

That problem hasn't been fixed. Not the end of the world, but irritating!

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General Computer Support / Re: No antivirus software necessary?

« on: May 02, 2017, 12:30:29 pm »

I've got a couple of problems with the beta version of Malwarebytes, do I'd stick with the latest release version if I were you - although the beta does look promising.

I haven't heard of herdprotect - I'll give it a look - thanks!

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General Computer Support / Re: No antivirus software necessary?

« on: May 01, 2017, 11:17:28 pm »

I was very excited about Malwarebytes 3.0 and it's claims to be able to replace your conventional antivirus but I've been following the official Malwarebytes forums since its release and I think the consensus, even among their own staff, is that a multilayer defence is best. I use Malwarebytes Premium 3.0 alongside Avast Free edition and they run pretty well together. I also use CryptoPrevent. Malwarebytes 3.0 seems to work in a different way to conventional antivirus products in that it is not primarily signature based but provides an extra layer of protection that should complement that provided by the antivirus.

Malwarebytes have had a difficult time with this product most of the initial problems have been resolved and I've had no difficulties with the current version. A new beta has been released in the last 24 hours which implements many new features and looks to improve the product's usability and stability https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/200230-malwarebytes-version-310-beta-available-for-download/

For my money it's a great product,  but NO security product will give you 100% protection  - I recommend regular backups to separate media, a multilayered approach and, above all, being eternally vigilant for suspect content!

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General Computer Support / Re: CPU running at 100% continuously in normal mode

« on: March 26, 2017, 12:06:35 am »

This is an annoying problem for users computer.
You can try methods below

Make sure that you have updated all drivers for your computer hardware especially the graphics card driver.
Perform a Windows 10 Repair: If you're getting the System and Compressed memory high usage problems with Windows 10 on your computer, you should be able to use push-button reset to refresh or reset Windows.
Add more RAM: This is a useful method for your computer system. When your computer runs short of RAM, it's forced to swap the overflow data on and off of the hard drive, which can cause System and Compressed memory high memory usage.
Uninstall unnecessary applications: You can also try to uninstall unnecessary applications to fix the System and Compressed memory high CPU usage on Windows 10. To do that, you go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program to uninstall any programs that you don’t want use.
Finally, I recommend you to close all idle applications and browser web pages.

The OP stated that he is using Windows Vista.................

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup not deleting old folder remnants

« on: March 13, 2017, 11:40:49 pm »

Thanks

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup not deleting old folder remnants

« on: March 13, 2017, 11:07:04 am »

Thanks, Boggin.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Registry Backup not deleting old folder remnants

« on: March 13, 2017, 09:08:55 am »

Still doing it.......................................................

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General Computer Support / Re: CPU running at 100% continuously in normal mode

« on: March 12, 2017, 11:36:11 pm »

I am using Malwarebytes Premium.  I was using 360 total security.

No I have not downloaded process explorer, yet.  I will do that next.

If you're using Malwarebytes Premium 3.0, it does use a lot of memory and processor power. There is much discussion on the Malwarebytes forum - see exile360's post in this thread https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/197270-malwarebytes-ram-usage-should-be-less-than-100mb/ to see what one of Malwarebytes' staff has to say on the issue. Malwarebytes 3.0 is a great piece of software but the developers are aware that there are still some issues to fix.