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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Problem with 3.2.0 portable

« on: May 28, 2015, 02:38:48 pm »

- Is Windows Defender or any other Anti malware program active ?
- Did you modify the "Cleaning scripts" for the cleaning tool in the PRO version ?

I downloaded the portable version, unzipped it, and then renamed the folder. Then I attempted to launch the program. It did not like that I renamed the folder, it reported the missing items.
I then changed the folder name back to the original name, and it opened perfectly.

I have antivirus installed on the computer, but I have never had problems with renaming folders unless it was an issue with that particular piece of software. That computer is runing Avira. (It is Win 7, and I believe Windows Defender is also on.)

I did not modify the download in any way.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Problem with 3.2.0 portable

« on: May 28, 2015, 11:02:11 am »

1)    I wanted to alert you, that if you change the folder name of the new release 3.2.0, the program will not pass the initial hash error check. (I generally add the version number to the program folder name) It says about 10 or so files are missing or corrupt.

The older versions never had a problem like this 



2) An idea for you - you may want to add an algorithm for correcting the following Windows update issue I ran into:

Someone I know had a laptop that was used at a company he used to work at, but the laptop was his own.  When he connected to the office network, something was changed in his computer the stopped windows updates. It was only discovered a year later, when he left the company. I reallized his Windows OS  had not updated for over a year. It turns out the admin at the old company did something so that once a computer connects to its domain, a flag was set  so that no updates would be downloaded directly from Microsoft; instead, the workplace-approved updates only came from the in house update server.

The following three sites helped me figure out and correct the issue.
https://codeimprovements.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/solving-error-8024402c-for-windows-update/
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles-tutorials/windows-xp/Registry-Keys-Tweaking-Windows-Update-Part1.html
http://superuser.com/questions/32340/how-to-enable-windows-update-over-the-internet-for-domain-computers-code-8024

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Issues with the blue 'No Problems Found '

« on: March 21, 2014, 06:41:03 pm »

Also, why is Checkdisk deleteing things when in read only mode..is that normal? Nothing to worry about?

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Issues with the blue 'No Problems Found '

« on: March 21, 2014, 06:38:01 pm »

So then, if I understand you, you are not scanning the log itself at this time...
Maybe if you scan both places...then it cant be missed!

Thank you by the way for the VERY quick response.

I also notice on the screen that when running the CheckDisk scan, sometimes one of the numbered percent complete feedbacks  is on the same line as the other with a little box in front.
It is meaningless, just appearances,  but there may be a hidden character in there or a missing return character .

Ex:  (I substituted ' _ 'for the little box I see on screen, this is not an actual example)

12 percent completed.               
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Also..what did you think about the bad block scan idea?

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Issues with the blue 'No Problems Found '

« on: March 21, 2014, 04:55:09 pm »

Great program!  I have three logs, below, to show, with  comments interspersed  between at the beginning of each report.

The issue is that the Checkdisk logs are saying there are errors, while the blue lettering says that there is no problems with the permissions.  Something is wrong there.  The log definitely says there are issues that cant be fixed in read only mode, while the blue lettering says all is well.

Interestingly, even though the first button (without restart) is supposed to be checking in read only mode, and I presume should be making no changes...it actually is deleting some items according to the windows log.
Thanks!


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Program Files\AMG Utilities\Tweaking.com - Windows Repair 2.5.1 portable>
CD /D C:\


C:\>chkdsk C:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Volume label is Preload.


WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.


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from file record segment 78748.
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Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
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Errors found.  CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.     


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Ran it again (below) , to see if it came up with no errors now.  But, it found errors, however, different ones…  And it still said No Errors Found on the Drive!.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Program Files\AMG Utilities\Tweaking.com - Windows Repair 2.5.1 portable>
CD /D C:\

C:\>
chkdsk C:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Volume label is Preload.

WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.


CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
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Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
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Deleting orphan file record segment 18778.


Errors found.  CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.   


C:\>

 == ========================================
Third time is a charm?  Nope!
Checkdisk is still just running as a scan (not a fix)  it comes up as No errors found.  It is obvious it tries to make some corrections, even though it is not running in ‘ /f ’ fix mode

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Program Files\AMG Utilities\Tweaking.com - Windows Repair 2.5.1 portable>
CD /D C:\


C:\>chkdsk C:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Volume label is Preload.

WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.


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Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
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Deleting orphan file record segment 20874.

Deleting orphan file record segment 20882.
Deleting orphan file record segment 20890.


Errors found.  CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.   


C:\>

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I ran it a fourth time also, but didn’t bother recording the results.  I then decided to stop playing around and to run the CheckDisk with restart option.

I did that, repeating the fix and restart three times, and all was well after that.  (somewhere alone the way, the lettering turned red and told me I needed to restart)
Once I finished the second run, the log and the blue lettering were in agreement. I ran it one more time for good measure.


A thought:  You can have Tweaking All in one add a bad block detect and repair mode. I believe this can be done using Checkdisk.
You may consider put a checkbox to also have CheckDisk check for bad blocks, (which takes much longer, so it should have a warning)  the command  format of which I believe is Chkdsk.exe  /r