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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: Is The Forum Open to New Members?

« Last post by jason.reid on September 07, 2026, 02:37:27 am »

Hi Everyone,

Apologies for the long silence here, that's on us.

To answer the actual question: registration has been closed while we dealt with a persistent spam problem, which was solved.
In the meantime, this board is being monitored again. Anything posted here will get a response.

Thanks for keeping an eye on the place.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Cleaning Memory Before Starting Repairs FAILS

« Last post by jason.reid on September 07, 2026, 02:36:14 am »

Hi radar,

Sorry for the slow response here.

That message means the repair process couldn't launch its child process - it's almost always something holding a lock rather than a fault in the repair itself. A few things to check:

• Run from an account with full admin rights ? right-click the shortcut, Run as administrator, even in Safe Mode.
• Safe Mode with Networking vs. plain Safe Mode ? try plain Safe Mode if you haven't; some services still load in the Networking variant.
• Security software ? if you have an AV or EDR agent with a boot-time driver, it can still be active in Safe Mode and block the repair launcher. Temporarily disabling it is the usual fix.
• Run the repairs one at a time rather than as a full set. That will tell us which specific repair is failing to start, which narrows this down a lot.

If you can post which Windows build you're on (winver) and the result of running a single repair on its own, I'll take it from there.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Cleaning Memory Before Starting Repairs FAILS

« Last post by garioch7 on July 09, 2026, 10:41:39 am »

@radar,

This Forum seems pretty dead to me.  I would not expect any replies from the new owners of Tweaking.com.

If your computer is Windows 11, or a Windows 10 with all of the updates, it appears that the "REPAIR" program is not being maintained.

If that is so, it is dangerous to run it on those two versions of Windows.  Every monthly Windows Update changes Windows, and a repair program that is not being constantly updated is bound to fail at some point in time.

I would recommend ceasing to use the product.  I had a licensed version that I ceased using years ago when Shane CROFT, the developer, left the company, to start his own company.

I hope I am surprised, and you get a reply from the new owners.  I visit here daily, and have never seen anyone reply to users.  As you can see, the Forum is pretty locked down, except for spam, which is cleaned about monthly.

Have a great day.

Regards,
Phil

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Cleaning Memory Before Starting Repairs FAILS

« Last post by radar on July 04, 2026, 11:11:32 am »

While running Tweaking repairs in SAFE MODE, I get this message, below.  How do I fix whatever is causing this repair to fail a few times before completing? 

thanks, radar

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Cleaning Memory Before Starting Repairs...

Memory After Cleaning with CleanMem
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Memory Total: 63.15 GB
Memory Used: 2.85 GB(4.5145%)
Memory Avail.: 60.30 GB
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Starting Repairs...
   Started at (7/4/2026 1:55:18 PM)


The current repair has failed to start for over 30 sec.
Trying Again....


The current repair has failed to start for over 30 sec.
Trying Again....


The current repair has failed to start for over 30 sec.
Trying Again....

   Done, but failed, at (7/4/2026 1:57:18 PM)
   Total Repair Time: 00:02:01

The current repair has failed to start 4 times.
Something is keeping the repair from running.

Try running the repairs in Windows Safe Mode. (This will keep 3rd party programs from getting in the way of the repairs)
If the repairs still fail then please post in the Tweaking.com forums for support.

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General Computer Support / Re: Win 11 Every external hard drive I try to use won't allow me to add files

« Last post by garioch7 on October 04, 2025, 09:35:23 am »

@OhLiz:

After I tried to fix the external the external drive doesn't appear on the disk management

What does that mean?  What specifically did you do to "fix" the external drive?

The problem that I see looking at your first screen image is that you are trying to copy too much at one time.  Your C: drive is full, so there is virtually no space for the creation of the temporary files needed to complete the copy operation.  Moreover, you want to move the files to the external drive, not just copy them, if you hope to free up space on your C: drive.

Good luck.  Have a great day.

Regards,
Phil

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General Computer Support / Win 11 Every external hard drive I try to use won't allow me to add files

« Last post by OhLiz on October 03, 2025, 09:15:38 pm »

A clean and ready 1TB external drive can only take a few files the message I get says there isn't enough space showing the C: OS but its clearly the E drive I've tried everything I know. I'm sleep deprived and can't function well enough to work this out. The laptop drive is so full I need to put my files on the external drive so it can function properly again. After I tried to fix the external the external drive doesn't appear on the disk management

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Running Windows Repair After Installation

« Last post by Boggin on September 01, 2025, 08:23:48 am »

Have you tried installing it in safe mode with networking as your av program could be blocking it.

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General Computer Support / Re: Need help importing account to Betterbird Email

« Last post by Boggin on August 23, 2025, 04:13:27 pm »

This article may provide better info - https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/better-email-import/5320

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General Computer Support / Re: Need help importing account to Betterbird Email

« Last post by dbtweak on August 23, 2025, 02:43:36 pm »

Sorry,
This post didn't help; off topic, I wanted to import account folders.

https://1drv.ms/u/c/f1c69e25e0d2390a/EdRwVHNC0VlJqkRvQ1LSCGYBb3836IsH3jQY0zWUy8mDsw?e=gzTqqV

I use Betterbird Email. Does anyone how to use Import function?

my account is: t70e12zz.default

Thank you for helping, Don

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General Computer Support / Re: Need help importing account to Betterbird Email

« Last post by Boggin on August 16, 2025, 04:14:17 pm »

See if this article will help with your updates - https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrkOHcgDqFoPxcV2wp3Bwx.;_ylu=Y29sbwMEcG9zAzIEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1755414177/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ubackup.com%2fwindows-10%2freset-windows-update-windows-10-1021.html/RK=2/RS=LO6FPaHWWGbPBS29F03TNa0GTpM-