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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Sometimes Tweaking makes it worse

« on: July 25, 2015, 02:34:28 pm »

A ha. That sounds very reasonable. I definitely will try that next time. This machine is currently undergoing conversion to LinuxLite.

Thanks much for the insight.

Paul

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Sometimes Tweaking makes it worse

« on: July 25, 2015, 12:03:21 pm »

Many times tweaking has been a real blessing. What perplexes me though is the relatively rare times it actually makes the machine worse. This has happened maybe three times, including this morning. I have a Vista machine with update problems. I ran Tweaking, including all steps, and using Safe Mode/networking. When I got to the repairs I chose the relevant ones, such as file/registry permissions, service defaults, wmi and a few more. I did not check all the boxes unthinkingly.

Nonetheless when I booted back up the "consent" dialog barely worked. VSS service does not work even when I turn it on manually. All this was working quite nicely before the repairs.

I took a registry backup so I'm not out of luck. But I'm wondering why this happens once in a while. It is concerning.

Thanks.

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General Computer Support / Re: Run Tweaking.com offline?

« on: July 10, 2015, 02:21:46 pm »

Thanks, Shane. I'm honestly not clear on this, since other progs do access the registry remotely (autoruns, NT offline password change, etc), but I take your word for it.

Blessings.

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General Computer Support / Re: Run Tweaking.com offline?

« on: July 08, 2015, 03:44:01 pm »

Thanks.

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General Computer Support / Re: Run Tweaking.com offline?

« on: July 08, 2015, 03:30:04 pm »

I'm not looking for an answer to that question. I wanted to know if tweaking can be used offline.

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General Computer Support / Re: Run Tweaking.com offline?

« on: July 08, 2015, 02:39:40 pm »

Nothing worked except a system restore. But the drive is fried so I have to transfer the installation.

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General Computer Support / Run Tweaking.com offline?

« on: July 08, 2015, 11:47:48 am »

Is it possible to run Tweaking.com offline, from a Windows boot disk? I boot only to a black screen with mouse cursor, and have tried everything short of a reinstall of Vista 32. I don't see it, but this would be a great feature.

Thanks.

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General Computer Support / Re: Task Scheduler reverts to old computer name

« on: January 06, 2015, 09:35:56 pm »

I thought the cryptography was tied to the hardware, but I could well be wrong about this. This clone was to a very similar, but not identical unit: an Acer D250 to a D150. I've used the clone dozens of times without this happening, but almost always it was to an identical unit.

Anyway, appreciate your input.

Paul

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General Computer Support / Re: Task Scheduler reverts to old computer name

« on: January 06, 2015, 04:09:26 am »

Interesting. I'll keep that in mind for next time, as this machine was quickly sold and is packed and ready to go. Strange, though, that this happened in a cloned install that has been fine on every other machine. But maybe the crypto's tie-in to the hardware produced the problem this time?

Thanks much,
Paul

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General Computer Support / Re: Task Scheduler reverts to old computer name

« on: January 04, 2015, 06:58:09 pm »

I worked around the problem by reverting the name back. Nothing else worked. I'd like to know what's at root, though.

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General Computer Support / Task Scheduler reverts to old computer name

« on: January 04, 2015, 05:34:21 pm »

I have an Acer netbook running XP, with a strange problem. I changed the name of the computer. Now I am trying to create a Scheduled Task. Everything goes fine until I hit Accept. At that point TS changes the owner of the task to the old computer name: Acer-D150\owner becomes Acer-kav60\owner. And so the task fails.

I've run Tweaking to reset registry, file and service permissions, the first two in Safe Mode, the last in full mode but with AV disabled.

I tried this on a second task to make sure the problem was endemic. It is. Anyone have insight what might be causing this?

Thanks,
Paul

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General Computer Support / Re: Can't create scheduled task in XP

« on: December 24, 2014, 06:49:27 am »

I have no problem with that, but they should have delayed the error until after the ability to check the "only when logged in" box, or given some guidance with the error.

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General Computer Support / Re: Can't create scheduled task in XP

« on: December 18, 2014, 04:38:40 pm »

Sorry for the delay - I had to teach gmail that this wasn't spam...

Getting a screenshot is easy, because this error is failsafe.

The error comes before the Advanced Properties dialog, where log-in-state parameters are set. It does come after the dialog where one would set the user account password. I never have a password on the machines I set up, and that could be the problem.

Wow, I went back and checked that "only when logged on" box, and no error was thrown and it seems to be working now. I guess that overrides the need for the password. It seems the problem is solved. I thought I had tried that before, but evidently not.

THANKS,
Paul

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General Computer Support / Can't create scheduled task in XP

« on: December 14, 2014, 09:09:21 pm »

I'm trying to create a scheduled task (to run auslogics disk defrag), but XP keeps giving me the 0x80070005 permissions error. I'm an administrator, so that shouldn't be a problem. XP is fully updated.

From my research, this is either a registry or file system permissions problem - specifically, permissions surrounding the All Users\Start Menu hierarchy. There may be a utility available from MS to resolve it. At least there was.

I tried resetting registry, file system and services permissions with Tweaking, but no-go. Would you consider baking this repair into the prog?

Thanks,
Paul

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Trouble understanding T.com output

« on: December 21, 2013, 03:09:49 pm »

A ha. That explains it.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Trouble understanding T.com output

« on: December 21, 2013, 02:27:22 pm »

Once I figured out the format the few errors didn't bother me.

Perhaps colons after the labels would help newcomers?

Thanks.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Trouble understanding T.com output

« on: December 20, 2013, 08:23:16 am »

Ok. I think I get it:

Done: 86812,
Modified    86000,
Failed     3,
Syntax errors     0

I was thrown off by the spacing.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Trouble understanding T.com output

« on: December 20, 2013, 08:18:54 am »

Hi,
I'm running several repairs from tweaking.com. In the CMD window repairing registry permissions, I get the following output:

Done: 86812, Modified    86000, Failed     3, Syntax errors     0
Last Done <certain key address>
Last Failed <certain key address>

The background for these lines is a dark red.

What exactly does this mean? If the numbers proceed their respective parameters, what is the trailing 0 about?

Thanks.