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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Repair Parse Points Added Shortcuts I Can't Access

« on: July 24, 2018, 05:00:39 pm »

I have three HDDs installed in my system. I try to keep my music, videos, and documents all on my HDD, I keep my user folder on my SSHD, and I keep my OS and Programs on my SSD. Today, I ran the Windows Repair tool just to see what the new update entailed but I didn't actually run the repairs. Instead, I just ran the scan in step 2, which is optional, just to see if there was anything wrong that I didn't notice. The scan came back and said that there were Missing Default Reparse Points, so I told the program to repair the reparse points. Now after running that, I notice a bunch of folders in my user folder that are named like this: My Documents -> [J] D:\Users\Knightmare\Documents. My HDD, which is where I want my documents, is E:\. I just want to know if this is going to cause the data to redirect to D:\ or if this is just some sort of shortcut to E:\. I just ran the scan again and it's coming back with more errors, even though it said that it fixed the errors when I ran the scan the first time.

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General Computer Support / Re: Taskbar Slow To Respond When Desktop Wakes

« on: July 11, 2014, 09:05:26 pm »

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I knew it couldn't be a problem with the OS, which is what people were telling me.

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General Computer Support / Re: Taskbar Slow To Respond When Desktop Wakes

« on: July 11, 2014, 08:14:25 pm »

Thanks for the help! I did end up fixing the problem. Turns out another program called Video Genie was not agreeing with NVIDIA. I just uninstalled the program and the problem is solve.

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General Computer Support / Re: Taskbar Slow To Respond When Desktop Wakes

« on: July 11, 2014, 03:12:49 pm »

Thanks! I have actually done this many time. I use NVIDIA and have the latest driver. Could it be that there is another version that might be more compatible with my system? I do get confused on which features (?) to install. It gives me options to install some 3D driver or something, but I don't have anything that is 3D. Should I just install all of the features to the driver, even if I don't use them?

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General Computer Support / Re: Taskbar Slow To Respond When Desktop Wakes

« on: July 10, 2014, 08:10:10 pm »

It doesn't seem to be

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General Computer Support / Re: Taskbar Slow To Respond When Desktop Wakes

« on: July 04, 2014, 08:13:06 pm »

Technically, it's just the screen going off. I didn't know how to say it lol.

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General Computer Support / Taskbar Slow To Respond When Desktop Wakes

« on: July 04, 2014, 06:48:47 am »

I have my computer power settings on high performance and I'm using Windows 7. Whenever I "get off" my computer--whether it's to go to bed or work--I leave the computer on and let the display turn off. When I come back to the computer hours later, I jiggle the mouse to "wake" the monitor and the time in my taskbar reads a time a few hours behind the present. I have also noticed that I cannot click on any icons on the taskbar during this time. After a few seconds, the time updates and I can click on the icons.

Any ideas what could be causing this? Not sure if I should check something hardware related or software related.

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General Computer Support / Re: Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: December 29, 2013, 08:52:52 pm »

So I reformatted my computer and copied all of my user data over from a backup that I made. I decided to change my username just because I didn't want my name on my computer (I already know it's mine), but when I copied the files over to my D: partition with my user information, it has an orphaned SID from my last username in the security tab. Would resetting the security settings using the Windows Repair Tool on the D drive remove this SID?

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General Computer Support / Re: Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: December 09, 2013, 03:15:17 pm »

I did, however, I didn't think it was a registry problem and deleted whatever was in the directory--i.e., the registry backup.

That doesn't seem like the problem though. Because when I did a repair install with the program installed, I was able to run the troubleshooter just fine right at startup, but the second time it would not work. This led me to believe that I ran the troubleshooter before the program could load its settings; therefore, when I tried to troubleshoot my connection the second time, it would not work because the program had loaded its settings.

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General Computer Support / Re: Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: December 08, 2013, 08:49:03 pm »

I know the cause of the problem! I was doing some customizing to my start menu in Windows 7 Manager. I made a few adjustments and had to restart explorer.exe with each change. After about the 3rd or 4th restart, the problem came back. Now the only question is how to fix the problem.

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General Computer Support / Re: Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: December 03, 2013, 07:08:18 pm »

I did the repair install and it worked the first time I booted the computer but when I tried it a second time, it gave the same error. 

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General Computer Support / Re: Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: December 02, 2013, 06:19:44 pm »

True; however, it's more of a pain to do a complete reformat of the system and reinstall everything again.

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General Computer Support / Re: Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: November 30, 2013, 06:15:32 pm »

Things were good but they went poorly. I installed an image from October 2. Everything was working fine, but when I updated programs that weren't updated and installed programs that I installed in November, the problem came back. I installed Java, Cyberlink PowerDirector, and the two new games for the Sims 3 with the patch. So I'm thinking it has something to do with a program that I installed.

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General Computer Support / Re: Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: November 25, 2013, 04:39:02 pm »

All of those services are running.

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General Computer Support / Re: Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: November 23, 2013, 08:12:07 am »

Unfortunately, I was misinformed. That did solve my internet problem, but I made my TEMP and TMP variable in my user environment set to C:Windows\temp. Now all of my user temp files are going to the Windows\temp folder. But when I change the variable for TEMP/TMP to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp, I can't troubleshoot the internet. Anyone know what is causing this issue?

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General Computer Support / Re: Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: November 22, 2013, 03:01:27 pm »

FIXED! Wow! That is weird. Thank you so much!

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General Computer Support / Re: Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: November 21, 2013, 04:29:36 pm »

When I discover the error, my internet was running very slow so I decided to troubleshoot and got the error in my first post.

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General Computer Support / Cannot Troubleshoot Internet

« on: November 20, 2013, 06:35:52 pm »

I received the error in the attachment when trying to troubleshoot what was wrong with my internet. I'm using Windows 7 x64 SP1. I installed a TAP driver on a VM to test it and found an unknown device on my physical system. When I uninstalled the unknown device on the physical computer, that's when the problem started.

I tried deleted the VM and uninstalling the program but I still could not troubleshoot my connection. I did a clean boot but that didn't work either. I also reinstalled the VM with the same OS and settings to try and reproduce the unknown device on my physical computer, but now the driver will not install at all (on the VM nor on my physical computer).

I disabled and uninstalled my AV but the error still occurred. I ran sfc /scannow but it didn't find any errors. I've even registering all of the dll files in my system folders but that didn't work either.

I cannot do a system restore because I disabled it. I did this because I noticed when I installed Windows, my computer was very slow. After running many cleaning and antimalware tools, I--somehow--decided to try turning off my system restore, which made my computer faster in a matter of seconds.

I checked my environment variable and it LOOKS okay. I don't really look at it enough to know what it should look like; however, it seems to be normal.