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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Reparse point repair silently fails

« on: April 16, 2015, 07:08:17 pm »

C:\ProgramData\Application Data is suppose to have deny all set on everyone. If not it will be an infinite loop if a program access it because it points right back to C:\ProgramData.

OK, I did not know that.  However, the All-in-1 prescan utility still lists this junction as broken under "Reparse points to repair," and all of the others that were listed as broken were repaired automatically.  So I am still under the impression that something is preventing this reparse point from being repaired, even if faulty permissions are not the reason.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / 'auto assign drive letters' fails on external HDD

« on: April 16, 2015, 10:54:19 am »

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/auto_assign_drive_letters.html

This utility functions correctly if a USB memory stick is inserted, but it does not work if a bare SATA hard drive is connected through a USB adapter.  Multiple adapters from different vendors were tested with the same result.

Notes:

• In all cases the adapter driver was automatically installed by Microsoft update servers
• The hard drive appears in Device Manager / Disk Drives
• The volume appears in Computer Management / Storage
• The volume is accessible through Windows Explorer if a drive letter is manually assigned in Computer Management.

I understand that this program is only supposed to enable a feature of Windows, not provide additional functionality.  I just want to know if Windows is technically capable of auto-mounting volumes on hard drives which are connected through a USB adapter... and if so, what is the command to enable this feature.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Reparse point repair silently fails

« on: April 16, 2015, 08:07:36 am »

That isnt offered here, you click on an advertisment, that isnt my program

It was a typo, I should have wrote "there" instead of "here."  I just wanted to point out that a scam repair utility is calling your product a virus, and these scammers are offering fake solutions to real Windows errors by gaming the search engines.

To update this issue (from the thread that was locked prematurely), I have downloaded 3.1.3 and it repaired all of the reparse points except for one item:

Create Default Reparse Point (JUNCTION)

Original Path:
 C:\ProgramData\Application Data

Target Path:
 C:\ProgramData

The cause of this failure may be a permissions error:

There were strange permissions on ProgramData & 'Application Data' (such as "deny all" and various "special" permissions in addition to the normal permissions for each account type).  Also, the SYSTEM account could not be given full control of this folder (operation fails without error message.)  I was able to manually fix permissions enough to gain access to 'Application Data' through Windows Explorer.  But when I ran the Reparse Point repair, the unwanted permissions (such as "deny all") were restored (meaning the folder could not be accessed through explorer again).  Running a permissions repair on the drive did not help.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: program hangs with 100% CPU

« on: March 14, 2015, 02:34:41 pm »

Yes, you were right about that.  Would there be any problem if I disabled the performance counters entirely?
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After the program launched properly, I went ahead and upgraded to 3.0.  So now there is another problem:

The pre-scan found various errors in the Reparse Points, including an infinite loop, and various other scans failed without obvious alerts (for example, the WMI repair reported "path too long" errors due to the Reparse Point loop.)  The pre-scan also said to search on the forum for more instructions.  I searched on the forum, but did not find any way to repair the Reparse Points.  So I searched the internet and found several scam sites which offered to "help".

http://www.almuseo.com/reparse-point-repair.php
http://winwiki.org/reparse-point-hidden-attribute-files/

The free "repair utility" offered here is actually a downloader which installs a paid app called "Reimage PC repair online".  This app scanned my system and said that my Windows installation had "High Severity damage."  It also declared that your free repair tool is a "virus".  Then it tried to extort $40 out of me to remove it.  (Of course I realize what kind of fraud they are trying to perpetrate here, and I know that a few registry errors do not constitute "severe damage.")

While I was studying this issue, I also found some "cracks" and "keygens" for this product, and I examined a few out of curiosity, because I was not going to pay for this dishonest utility and support the publisher's deceptive marketing schemes, but I did want to see what else it does.  However, they were all just a bunch of adware and spyware.  So now there are scam cracks for scam products! 

Continuing my research, I found another scam site which offers another scam product called "RegCurePro" for the same issue:

http://www.retinapost.com/reparse-point-repair.php

So the bottom line is, the problem still is not fixed, and now I have "new" problems to deal with.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: program hangs with 100% CPU

« on: March 08, 2015, 02:43:40 pm »

I have the same problem; thats how I found this.  Safe Mode does not work either.  ALL IN ONE startup animation works, but both programs hang with 100% CPU load at the point just before the main UI window would normally appear.  Here is some info from Process Hacker, hope this helps.

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TOOLBOX - BUSY STACK THREADS


Technicians_Toolbox.exe+0x414ae0

0, KernelBase.dll!RaiseException+0x54
1, msvbvm60.dll!EbGetHandleOfExecutingProject+0x22b3
2, msvbvm60.dll!rtcDoEvents+0x131
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ntdll.dll!RtlRegisterThreadWithCsrss+0x197

0, ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
1, kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x12
2, ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xef
3, ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xc2
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GdiPlus.dll!GdipCreateSolidFill+0x7e5

0, ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
1, kernel32.dll!WaitForMultipleObjectsEx+0x8e
2, user32.dll!GetWindowLongW+0x141
3, user32.dll!MsgWaitForMultipleObjects+0x1f
4, GdiPlus.dll!GdipCreateSolidFill+0x8d6
5, GdiPlus.dll!GdipCreateSolidFill+0x7f5
6, kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x12
7, ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xef
8, ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xc2


TOOLBOX - BUSY MODULES

TweakingFormControls.ocx
TweakingMDITaskbar.ocx

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ALL IN ONE - BUSY  STACK THREADS


Repair_Windows.exe+0x104ac

0, ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
1, KernelBase.dll!Sleep+0xf
2, msvbvm60.dll!rtcDoEvents+0x5e
3, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x236f3
4, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x239f4
5, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x23e5b
6, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x24027
7, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x3b77
8, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x386d
9, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x36291
10, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x38bc5
11, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x236f3
12, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x239f4
13, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x23e5b
14, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x24027
15, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x2c857
16, msvbvm60.dll!Zombie_Release+0xda9a
17, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x21a3e
18, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x38a96
19, msvbvm60.dll!DLLGetDocumentation+0x25b2
20, msvbvm60.dll!DLLGetDocumentation+0x262b
21, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x236f3
22, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x239f4
23, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x23e5b
24, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x24027
25, msvbvm60.dll!DllCanUnloadNow+0x1c1d9
26, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x2e809
27, msvbvm60.dll!IID_IVbaHost+0x3133d
28, user32.dll!gapfnScSendMessage+0x1cf
29, user32.dll!gapfnScSendMessage+0x2cf
30, user32.dll!gapfnScSendMessage+0x901
31, user32.dll!DispatchMessageA+0xf
32, msvbvm60.dll!_vbaStrToAnsi+0x2f1
33, msvbvm60.dll!_vbaStrToAnsi+0x268
34, msvbvm60.dll!_vbaStrToAnsi+0x146
35, msvbvm60.dll!_vbaStrToAnsi+0x111
36, msvbvm60.dll!ThunRTMain+0xa0
37, Repair_Windows.exe+0x104b6
38, ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xef
39, ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xc2
_________

GdiPlus.dll!GdipCreateSolidFill+0x7e5

0, ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
1, kernel32.dll!WaitForMultipleObjectsEx+0x8e
2, user32.dll!GetWindowLongW+0x141
3, user32.dll!MsgWaitForMultipleObjects+0x1f
4, GdiPlus.dll!GdipCreateSolidFill+0x8d6
5, GdiPlus.dll!GdipCreateSolidFill+0x7f5
6, kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x12
7, ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xef
8, ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xc2
_________

ALL IN ONE - BUSY MODULES

tweaking_tabs.ocx