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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Major issue with 291 version

« on: September 25, 2014, 01:25:34 pm »

Thanks.  Actually I had an issue using the fallback method once or twice, the program said some parts of the registry were not saved correctly.  But it only happened so many times.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Major issue with 291 version

« on: September 24, 2014, 03:43:10 pm »

Thanks, you're right, all letters are present.  I have chosen Z: as default VSS drive.  If I may insist on something, it would be nice if the installation of a new version could preserve the settings of the former one, when applicable. Maybe it's already the case, all the better !

Regarding VSS, or Fallback, it seems to me that now you consider VSS as the Fallback method, which is indeed faster and apparently safer.  I also remember that you indicated VSS was the best method in previous versions.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Major issue with 291 version

« on: September 24, 2014, 03:13:48 am »

Hi and thanks for the reply.  I am not sure I understand all of it, but what is strange is that it did worked fine until recently, always with the same setting using B: as target.  B: is used also by eBoostr, a readyboost equivalent.
I am not quite sure what I should do if I want to continue to use VSS : select a non existant drive letter ?  I thought the drop down menu only proposed existing drives.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Major issue with 291 version

« on: September 23, 2014, 03:55:41 pm »

I have noticed that the drive used by VSS is B: a USB Flash Key quite full, is it possible to chose C: where there is plenty of space ?  For the current time I have disabled VSS usage for Registry Backup.  Maybe the issue is not due to the Repair Now Version but rather the fact that the Deivce for VSS was lacking empty space, more than before (I installed a few more portable apps on it).

After a hard shutdown, it seems there is no issue even if it's not easy to tell.  But I least after several hours all seem to perform correctly, but I can assure you it was scary, more than Freddy The Revenge or whatever horror movie one can prefer.  For instance, trying to open the Computer resulted in a strange message saying something was wrong with explorer.exe.

In that cas, I never know if it's better to force power down or to try to shut "gracefully" the PC.

Thanks for the reply !

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Major issue with 291 version

« on: September 23, 2014, 05:00:01 am »

Hi,
I have noticed something very wrong with 2.9.1 on a 7 pro system : whenever I user Registry Backup, with VSS, it sorts of hide C: from the system, and you can imagine what is does.  I was able to shutdown the system. After reboot everything seemed back to normal, and it started again after I performed a new registry backup.  Maybe a VSS mess-up.  I hope I can recover my system after this second crash...

PS : sorry for posting here instead where I should have, I was quite upset, this PC is very important to me...

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: SOLVED : issue when creating System Restore Points from TRW

« on: July 31, 2014, 09:55:56 am »

I fully agree with you but still, I like to be able to use this feature, it has saved me a couple of times without having to try a full restore. Granted, it is unstable, SR points are quite "volatile".

BTW, regarding Registry Backup only, I remember the day when I discovered this program, I did a backup in the morning.  At noon, for some reason, my PC crashed more or less, at least some apps froze, so I tried to close the session.  It finally closed the session, but after the reboot, all my configuration was gone.  I was pretty sure the registry had been damaged during shutdown. I then remembered the backup done in the morning, I was able to restore it effortlessly and, at reboot, everything was fine again ! Incredible.  I remember having done a small donation a few days later (using my Paypal e-mail address, not the one I am registered here).  And my PC almost never crashes.  What a coincidence !

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: SOLVED : issue when creating System Restore Points from TRW

« on: July 31, 2014, 08:45:04 am »

I observe in the list of System Restore Points that the ones created through TWR are labelled as "System" and the other ones, created by MSFT dedicated tool, are labelled as "Manual".  I guess it's the "System" ones that are monitored. Hope it can help.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: SOLVED : issue when creating System Restore Points from TRW

« on: July 31, 2014, 01:35:31 am »

Eureka : the solution was in Windows Error Logs : I have a nice & explicit message from System Restore saying no restore point has been created since there is already a recent one, too recent to create another one. That explains why sometimes it did work.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: SOLVED : issue when creating System Restore Points from TRW

« on: July 31, 2014, 01:28:58 am »

WMI seems to be functional (at basic level). If I type wmimgmt.msc, then right click on WMI control (local) I get the attached info. Seems normal to me, even if I have read troubleshooting WMI is quite complicated.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: SOLVED : issue when creating System Restore Points from TRW

« on: July 31, 2014, 01:02:20 am »

Thanks for the clarification.  I think I still prefer the VSS method since it never fails.  Regarding WMI functioning or not, I'll check before if it's system restore creation points start working again.  If not I'll try the WMI repair.  I just fail to see why it would be damaged, the PC is almost new. Granted, I have already added tons of software but this would be strange.  I'll have a look at windows error logs and see if I can pinpoint something.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Issue when creating System Restore Points from TRW

« on: July 30, 2014, 03:00:49 pm »

Thanks, that's very kind from you. I think I still prefer to use the full program, since I also perform a Registry Backup (BTW, why is the default setting now "enable fallback mode always", I have to reset it at every install - preferences are not kept apparently). I tend to wear braces and a belt as we say over here.

Could you tell me how to check if the WMI component is working ?  If there is a script for that that would be great (I guess there is a script for almost everything nowadays...).

Also, is there a way to check after the System Restore point is created that it is indeed created, even if WMI doesn't return an error.  It's really annoying to feel safe while one is not.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Issue when creating System Restore Points from TRW

« on: July 30, 2014, 12:12:23 pm »

Thanks for your reply.  The strange thing is that it does work from time to time, or maybe it was with previous versions.  I use your program not only to take new System Restore Points of course, but that's very convenient to use actually, just 3 mouse clicks to launch.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / SOLVED : issue when creating System Restore Points from TRW

« on: July 30, 2014, 06:11:22 am »

Hi, I am using version 2.8.4 and running Windows 8.1 on a Lenovo G505.

Since recently, creating System Restore Point from within Tweaking.com Windows Repair is not working most of the time.  When I click on Create, I get instantly a message saying a point has been created.  It usually takes 30s or so.  When I check after while, I see no created system restore point.  Only when using the Windows GUI I can create new points, and this time it does take some time.

This is annoying to have a false positive message saying a point has been created.

Thanks for your help.

PS : the captcha are really hard to read...