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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't get "Kill Frozen Programs" to work

« on: December 28, 2013, 05:06:01 pm »

It appears that I may have been under the mistaken impression that the key combination was intended to open and run the program, not just run it when it was already open. Is this correct, or does the program have to be open at all times, just in case things freeze up? I have found that the key combination will run the program if it is already open, but it will not open it if the program is not already running.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't get "Kill Frozen Programs" to work

« on: December 27, 2013, 07:13:11 pm »

The user account I am running it in has full administrator privileges. Plus I when I extracted the zip file I ran that as administrator. I have no problem running the program when I double click on the exe file. What does not work is when I try to run it using hot keys. Nothing at all happens when I use the hot key combination. Does the Kill_Frozen_Program.exe have to be placed in any particular directory?

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Can't get "Kill Frozen Programs" to work

« on: December 26, 2013, 02:51:13 pm »

I really like the idea of "Kill Frozen Programs", but I can't get it to open using hot keys. It runs correctly when I double click on the program .exe, but nothing happens when I try to invoke it using any combination of hot keys. Any help with this would be very much appreciated.
I run Windows 7 64 home premium.

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General Computer Support / What is stopping external hard drive dismounting

« on: September 15, 2013, 05:37:00 pm »

Can anyone please tell me if tweaking.com (or anyone else) has a utility that will easily identify what is stopping an external hard drive from dismounting? It doesn't happen often, but every now and again I get the Windows message "Problem ejecting USB Mass Storage Device - The device is currently in use...". This is despite the fact that I have closed every program or window that could feasibly be accessing the drive. I have googled this message many times and it seems that this problem is common. Some people say that you can use Sysinternals process explorer to find what is causing the problem, but I have never been able to work out how to do this. I imagine that a simple utility to deal with this problem would be very useful to lots of people.
I run Windows 7 64 Home Premium

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Feedback & Suggestions / Windows Repair worked - HOORAY!

« on: August 22, 2013, 05:03:10 am »

I've had two intractable problems, which I have spent hours trying to fix with absolutely no result (before now). I run Windows 7 Home Premium 64, and both problems were described in multiple posts on many forums, with no reliable fixes suggested. I posted questions on the best tech-support forums I know, and no one had any suggestions. The only suggestion was to do a complete re-install of Windows. After running Windows Repair (All In One) both problems are now fixed. These problems were:

1) When trying to open any Microsoft Office program, an installer would open for Microsoft Single Image Viewer. This would take forever to run, and eventually the MS Office program would open. This happened every time I tried to open Word, Excel, Publisher etc.

2) Unable to successfully install Overdrive Media Console (DRM manager for downloadable ebooks and audiobooks from libraries). The basic characteristics of this problem were:
 - After installing Overdrive Media Console, whenever I tried to run it, the installer would start up and start configuring the program all over again. It was as though the installation process never really completed. So it started again every time I tried to run the program. Another sign that it hadn't installed correctly was that when I checked the version details of the Overdrive software, the pop-up box said "Version: <error>. System information: Windows Media Player version: <error>. Windows Media Player DRM version: <error>".
- Whenever I downloaded an audiobook link from my library and tried to open it in Overdrive Media Console, I got the message:  "OverDrive Media Console is not able to check the version required for the selected title. Unable to create the OMC detect object used to get version information (Invalid Class String)."
- After a huge amount of searching, it appeared that the underlying problem might have been Windows refusal to register the OMCDetect.dll file. Following instructions I tried running regsvr32 from an elevated command prompt. I tried running it both in the Windows\System32 folder and also the \SysWOW64 folder. I also tried it in safe mode. No matter what I did I got the message "The module "omcdetect.dll" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x80070005. For more information about this problem, search online using the error code as a search term."
I searched for this error message and every "fix" I found said to run regsver32.exe as adminstrator - which I had already done multiple times.
I eventually gave up any hope of fixing this problem, until a friend told me about Windows Repair (All In One). It's now working fine and I've successfully downloaded my first audiobook.