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Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« on: August 15, 2014, 01:22:28 am »
Hi, just joined and noted after update to version 2.8.6, the process stops at "19 - Repair Volume Shadow Copy Service" on both windows 7 home and prof machines. Previous version OK and Version 2.8.5 was actually fine and tweaked the machines well. Just giving feedback in case there is a solution. Just tested again and results attached in capture image.
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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2014, 11:12:16 am »
Is the cmd.exe window open? That is where the commands for the repair is ran. The log shows that it ran under the current user account and then it was running the repair again under the system account.

To run the command under the system account the program uses the file "tweaking_ras.exe" and that launches the cmd.exe under the system account.

If for some reason the file was removed or not working during the repair then the cmd.exe window would have never opened and so the program would sit there waiting for it.

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2014, 12:38:07 am »
The cmd.exe pop-up window starts ok but cannot see it when it reaches step 19 (as shown in the image earlier) in version 2.8.6 and win 7 home (VM). This is where it takes ages to proceed until I gave up and closed the programme. I can see others having the same issue as I also use win 7 prof (32-bit) with same issue. This was fine in prior versions and the last version 2.8.5. These showed the cmd.exe pop up box to do its task and finish OK. Hopefully there will be a solution to improve this soon so it works as it did before.
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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2014, 01:35:56 pm »
v2.8.7 is out, see how that one does for you :-)

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2014, 02:09:13 am »
Downloaded v2.8.7 today with the same following results as before - see attached images. :sad:

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2014, 09:50:17 am »
Looks like for some reason something kept tweaking_ras.exe in the files folder from running and starting the cmd.exe under the system account.

Each time you see a repair being run under the system account that exe is ran, so if it ever has trouble it wont start the cmd.exe.

So the question is, why did it fail to start that time when it ran fine for all the repairs before it. Does the event viewer show any errors about that file?

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2014, 11:16:01 am »
All I can see after v.2.8.7, and on win 7 pro 32-bit, is as follows:-

1) The RegBackup log_backup text file shows 'successful' for all

2) The Event Viewer for 'system' with errors (x 3 - about the time v2.8.7 ran) (via Control Panel) is copy pasted here:-

Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Date:          19/08/2014 08:25:02
Event ID:      10016
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          DELL-9150\as
Computer:      DELL-9150
Description:
The machine-default permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{000C101C-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
 and APPID
{000C101C-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
 to the user DELL-9150\as SID (S-1-5-21-536513578-3564515113-194576785-1001) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM" Guid="{1B562E86-B7AA-4131-BADC-B6F3A001407E}" EventSourceName="DCOM" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">10016</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-08-19T07:25:02.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>672992</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>DELL-9150</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-536513578-3564515113-194576785-1001" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="param1">machine-default</Data>
    <Data Name="param2">Local</Data>
    <Data Name="param3">Activation</Data>
    <Data Name="param4">{000C101C-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}</Data>
    <Data Name="param5">{000C101C-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}</Data>
    <Data Name="param6">DELL-9150</Data>
    <Data Name="param7">as</Data>
    <Data Name="param8">S-1-5-21-536513578-3564515113-194576785-1001</Data>
    <Data Name="param9">LocalHost (Using LRPC)</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>


Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Date:          19/08/2014 08:33:08
Event ID:      10016
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      DELL-9150
Description:
The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{C97FCC79-E628-407D-AE68-A06AD6D8B4D1}
 and APPID
{344ED43D-D086-4961-86A6-1106F4ACAD9B}
 to the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM SID (S-1-5-18) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM" Guid="{1B562E86-B7AA-4131-BADC-B6F3A001407E}" EventSourceName="DCOM" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">10016</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-08-19T07:33:08.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>673004</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>DELL-9150</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="param1">application-specific</Data>
    <Data Name="param2">Local</Data>
    <Data Name="param3">Launch</Data>
    <Data Name="param4">{C97FCC79-E628-407D-AE68-A06AD6D8B4D1}</Data>
    <Data Name="param5">{344ED43D-D086-4961-86A6-1106F4ACAD9B}</Data>
    <Data Name="param6">NT AUTHORITY</Data>
    <Data Name="param7">SYSTEM</Data>
    <Data Name="param8">S-1-5-18</Data>
    <Data Name="param9">LocalHost (Using LRPC)</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Log Name:      System
Source:        volsnap
Date:          19/08/2014 09:04:21
Event ID:      25
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      DELL-9150
Description:
The shadow copies of volume C: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time.  Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being shadow copied.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="volsnap" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49158">25</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-08-19T08:04:21.820825100Z" />
    <EventRecordID>673175</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>DELL-9150</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1</Data>
    <Data>C:</Data>
    <Binary>000000000200300000000000190006C0030000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>

I am not techie enough to decipher that and hope it helps you to fix it! I would say why fix version 2.8.5 when it worked OK, but I hear you say 'to make it better'!

Hoping to get to the better of this glitch soon.

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2014, 03:36:23 pm »
I have had multiple people report the repairs not running at random times. I think I have it traced down. The tweaking_ras.exe file is what I need to update. There are two reasons I found why it isnt running a repair and so I am working on a fix right now and will hopefully have an update out tomorrow :-)

This is a good thing that this is happening, because before the program never waited for the repairs to start and so if a repair failed to run for some reason it just kept on going, but missing that repair and who knows how many others. Now that I have the program wait for the repair to start I am finally seeing these issues and it is allowing me to get them fixed :-)

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2014, 06:49:26 pm »
Done!

I finished v2.8.8 BUT I need it tested before I release it tomorrow morning. So if you could try it out tonight and let me know by morning if you had any trouble with it. :cheesy:

If all goes well I will release it first thing tomorrow when I get in my office.

Take the 7-zip file I attached and extract the files out of it and replace the ones in the program folder with these new ones. (So grab the 2.8.7 version if you dont have it and once installed replace the files with the ones in the 7-zip file)

3 main files need replaced
Repair_Windows.exe
files\tweaking_ras.exe
files\tweaking_rati.exe

Here is the current change log for the new version

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v2.8.8
Updated the tweaking_ras.exe and Tweaking_rati.exe. These are both used to run repairs as the system account or trusted installer. To do this they create themselves as a service and run the command, then remove the service they created. The problem was that on some systems, Windows wasn't removing the service fast enough before the next one was called and created. Since the service name was the same, the next one created wouldn't be called (Since it was in the process of being removed by Windows) and the repair wouldn't start. Both of these programs now randomize their service name to keep this from happening.

The program now will try to start a repair up to 3 more times if it fails to start the first time (For a total of 4 times and 30 sec between each try). So now if there is ever a simple hiccup or problem that kept the repair from running then the program will try again and normally it will continue on. If it fails to run a repair 4 times then the repairs stop and the program tells you to let me know in the forums, where I will work with you to find out why they didn't run.

Fixed a bug where the program didn't close itself if you told it to reboot or shutdown the systems after the repairs.

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2014, 01:17:01 am »
Hi Shane,

Followed your instructions, downloaded and replaced the 3 files in v2.8.7 today (already installed). Then tested in win 7 Home 32-bit VM, but in the end the same results.

The attached images shows the 3 attempts you mentioned and again the process stopped at task 19.

The System Event Viewer file is also attached (as too long to copy and paste here). This shows the 'before and after' events: 1) tweaking OK, 2) then the error, 3) then the 3 attempts.

If you still have v.2.8.5, to compare with later versions that would give a clue. :undecided: :sad:
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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2014, 08:54:20 am »
Odd, as you can see it failed on the repair when it had to run it under the system account. All the repairs before that worked just fine.

Are you online now by any chance? i need to get this update out but want to look at your system and find out why that repair isnt running first.

Send me and email to shane at tweaking.com

Soon if you can :-)

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2014, 09:12:10 am »
Also I noticed your cpu was maxed out, did you check the task manager to see what was maxing out the cpu?

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2014, 11:44:56 am »
Thank you Shane for remotely verifying that it was my AV (Kaspersky Internet Security 2014) that was blocking and deleted the bat filed it thought was a trojan and you confirmed it to be a false positive, and proved your programme worked! So a huge thanks!

In the past I did disable my AV for one time but lately it did not need disabling so left it to continue until v2.8.7 came along and caused this post to get to the bottom of it, which we did. So great!

I have now downloaded the new build v2.8.8 and installed it over the existing v2.8.7 (as updated by the 3 files), disabled the AV until restart, so could not capture screen shots to show but it turned out fine on the win 7 prof 32-bit machine as well as on my win 7 home VM.

From now on, I will take note of the warning to disable the AV to ensure the Tweaking prog runs OK as it did this time if not better than the previous versions!

So now I will close this post as SOLVED and the above fixed it, all thanks to you! :smiley:

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2014, 11:51:55 am »
Thanks for letting me connect and find the problem :-)

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2014, 02:19:56 pm »
I also tried version 2.8.8 on my Windows 7 64 bit. Where it use to stop on repair 15 repair proxy settings it now works on it and all the repairs. Thanks for the new version so quickly to fix the problem. I know everyone loves windows 8.1 but please don't forget there are a lot of people who still have windows 7 and like it better than 8.1. So please keep all future version of this program compatible with windows 7 as well. And for me specially 64 bit version of windows 7.

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Re: Windows Repair (All in One) v2.8.6 Released
« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2014, 02:58:39 pm »
I have no plans to not keep support for xp and vista  and 7. There is no reason to remove anything for those. These are automated repairs, once done I dont need to do anything else with them so xp will always be in the program. I still use windows 7 on all my computers except 1 :wink:

The only reason any program out there wouldn't work on an older OS is if an API call the program uses is only available in newer versions of windows. Thats my my program doesnt support windows 2000, but from xp on it will support them all :-)

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