REGISTRY AUTO BACKUP SCHEDULE RUN AT USER LOGIN QUESTION

[James]

Hello Guys! Win 7, Home Premium x64

Have registry backup setup as of yesterday morning > I think.

But did not see a new backup in the folder so am thinking there was no auto backup.

What exactly does this mean: "makes the schedule set to run at user login" mean in the online help on page 1?

The reason I am suspicious of this "user login" business is that I have setup the startup to by-pass the login window because I did not want to be bothered messing with a sign-in on every startup.

Does this "user login" by pass I setup, mean the registry backup will not auto-run maybe?

Really appreciate your help on this.

Thanks much,

James

[Samson]

Hi James,

Delete your current backup schedule and change it to "Run Under System Account", that should resolve your issue.

[James]

OK Guy, deleted the top most checked schedule and opened bottom most checked schedule. So I guess its just wait, search & see thing now, right?

[Samson]

Yup, just reboot, you'll see RB running in Task Manager, then check in the location where your reg backups are being saved.

[James]

Uhh, post-reboot was no "tweaking.." in task manager. Now listed in startup after I dragged the tweaking open program icon into startup folder but still no tweaking running even in process hacker.

Nothing in "task tray (ya I know a new name, bla bla)" either!

Stuff's up here bud. What ya think? Thks, Jim

BTW, this forum's "Notify me of replies." option is dysfunctional even though checked cos > get no email notice. Hmmm?

 

[Samson]

You did n't need to add the icon to start up folder, not sure why you did that?

See the attached screenshot, follow 1 then 2

Nothing will show in the notification area, task scheduler will show the entry and task manager will show RB running at start up.

Delete current schedule and follow the above. If you reboot often everyday and only want one backup per day then check 1 backup per day as per second screenshot.

[James]

ok, after reinstall over old install, Tweaking.. now running and shown in both services mentioned. Both settings you mentioned already setup that way, so all is cool there.

Also, programs I want to startup on reboot first, I put in the startup folder. That simple.

All is cool now, it seems. Sop will wait till morning I guess to see what happens another calendar day.

Thanks much guy, Jim

[James]

Been up a while, but here is what is happening.

To make sure we are on same page as much as possible, I removed the tweaking.com shortcut from the startup folder.

On startup, tweaking.. does NOT run. No Tweaking...shown in task manager or process hacker unless and until I open it to run manually with a double click on the program shortcut in my desktop.

The run under system account radio button is marked.

Ran the create schedule button after deleting the current schedule but do not know what's happening because I did that.

The only do 1 auto backup per day box checked.

Now what, other than there has been no registry backup created.

[Samson]

To make sure we are on same page as much as possible, I removed the tweaking.com shortcut from the startup folder.

OK, are we talking about Tweaking.com Windows repair AIO or the standalone registry backup?

On startup, tweaking.. does NOT run. No Tweaking...shown in task manager or process hacker unless and until I open it to run manually with a double click on the program shortcut in my desktop.

If you are using tweaking.com windows repair AIO, then you can set it to run at start up in the settings options. It is not necessary to have it running at start up to create a registry backup, your choice.

The run under system account radio button is marked.

OK.

Ran the create schedule button after deleting the current schedule but do not know what's happening because I did that.

Did you get a pop up to show that the schedule had been created? Also check in Scheduled Tasks to confirm.

The only do 1 auto backup per day box checked.

OK

Now what, other than there has been no registry backup created.

Where is your backup location? Default is on your C Drive under Regbackup, unless you have changed it?

[Shane]

The registry backup will run at startup from the task scheduler but after 5 min. This is to give the system time to finish booting up and for all the startup programs to load. That way things are done writing to the registry as much as possible before the backup happens.

You can check the task scheduler to make sure has been ran in the past and make sure to give it 5 min when you login before you see it pop up. It will close when it is done so sometimes you may not notice it.

Shane

[James]

@ Samson.

>No inquiry exits about windows repair right now, just registry backup. My poor old time buddy-standby Erunt bit the dust and seems abandoned, so its time for some new quality blood.
>Yup, the schedule created popup, opened right away.
>The Regbackup folder's specific subfolder exists (my computer name). My prior Tweaking.com manual registry backups are listed therein.

@ Shane.
>I am complete Nube as to the windows task scheduler so I just plain do not know how to check it to see if it ran or not, but if its shown in the Registry backup program will take a look-see around.

>>Update... solely opened "edit schedule" with click(s). A popup appeared stating: "The selected task "0" no longer exists. To see the current tasks click refresh."

Three panes opened:

(1.>top) Overview of Task Scheduler. >>> Some general Task scheduler info is displayed.
(2.>middle) Task status. >>> This windows reads: "reading data failed"
(3.>Bottom) Active tasks. >>> This windows reads: "reading data failed"

Most obviously, something is wrong in Denmark!!

[Samson]

Looks like Task Scheduler is the problem then...."Rotten in the state of Denmark" 

Sounds very similar to a problem solved previously here....
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,3725.msg26678.html#msg26678
"changing the schedule of Windows Defrag" fixed it for them.

Hold fire and see what Shane suggests.

[James]

ok holding fire but looks near on point but w/o a $M auto-defrag to the extent that could matter.

[maxXPsoft]

ok holding fire but looks near on point but w/o a $M auto-defrag to the extent that could matter.

I used to run an installer that copied the shortcut for this program to Startup on Win 7 and it worked
Does your shortcut properties look like this?
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Tweaking.com\Registry Backup\TweakingRegistryBackup.exe" /auto

To repair Task scheduler I think this will work

Find command prompt in your Start menu and right click run as Administrator, if that not available then might have to right click it and choose properties and select the box say |_| Run as Administrator

Paste these 2 cmds in the cmd prompt window

sc config Schedule start= auto
sc start Schedule

Reboot and see if it runs

[James]

Hello maxXPsoft. While waiting for Shane, googled your suggestion:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22repair%22+%22sc+config+Schedule+start%3D+auto%22+task+scheduler&start=10

Could not see exact match though a bit with Vista (often akin to Win7)

Have a source of verified Win 7 use to share with us?

Thanks James

[maxXPsoft]

Have a source of verified Win 7 use to share with us?

Thanks James

http://batcmd.com/windows/7/services/schedule/
Its exactly what I posted as cmds to run

[James]

Hello again maxXPsoft: Looks cool to me, but what do I know anyway!! I always do searches and ask questions like that on my own and others thoughts about computer program problems.

Am sort of getting the general feeling that this is an important matter that Shane will be very interested in, so you thoughts and time should be greatly appreciated by him and perhaps many future viewers of these forums on this subject.

BTW, how is this process enable a repair in you estimation? Thanks so much for your contribution! James 

[Samson]

That will simply reset the Task Scheduler service to default start up type, ie automatic. You can check in services to see if Task Scheduler is set to start automatically.

Click Start
Type services.msc
Find Task Scheduler in the list of services
Be sure that it is Started and Set to Automatic Startup

However your problem is due to scheduled tasks being messed/ corrupted in some way.

The thread I linked points to the solution, but for 100% confirmation wait for Shane's approval or maybe Julian or Boggin will step in and advise.

Here is the link to that thread for reference...
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,3725.msg26678.html#msg26678

[James]

Yup, I have been around for a good while.

All good intentions are most certainly appreciated, while waiting for Shane to pass on these great subjects.

It is his program(s) being affected, so even the least amount of respect & courtesy is due to him in the first instance.

To to be sure, in my opinion anyway. Enough said, with all due respect to all, Jim

[Samson]

In the meantime Jim, just run a daily manual registry backup.....I'm sure that you are anyway 

[James]