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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Restore point creation and task scheduler 'catastrophic failure'

« on: January 09, 2016, 09:55:04 am »

Hello Boggin.

I didn't have a specific problem at all!

I wanted to try the program to identify any problems with the registries of my two machines and correct them, if they existed. As is normal, over time the registry gets cluttered with remnants of crap or minor corruptions of many kinds.

I assumed that is why your program exists. That is why I ran it. If I am mistaken, so be it.

Apart from the problem that I have referred to, watching the program doing its job while it was undertaking the 'repairs', I got the impression that many corrections had been made successfully. That is why I was happy to give it another go and why I posted my experience in using it - and also to alert you to a problem that might affect others.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Restore point creation and task scheduler 'catastrophic failure'

« on: January 09, 2016, 03:31:39 am »

Many thanks for your helpful reply, Boggin. I did in fact run sfc /scannow but it did not show any errors. I did ensure that Volume Shadow Copy was running on both machines (it had been set to manual) so I started it, rebooted, checked it was still running, but the problem remained.

I just was wondering which actions/changes Windows Repair makes in doing its thing could have affected VSC or any other setting that could prevent Windows from correctly running both Sytem Restore and creating a Restore Point. The list of actions in the program is comprehensive and maybe unticking likely suspects could make good use of the program without creating the problem I experienced.

Your suggestion of creating a system image is of course sensible.

Also, I do congratulate you on how very prominent the warning to create a registry back up and a system restore point from within the program is, before running the repair. Having done so, that is the only thing that worked in solving the problem for me despite all my other efforts.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Restore point creation and task scheduler 'catastrophic failure'

« on: January 09, 2016, 02:57:23 am »

Fraid I can't do that Julian, as the registry restore from within the program has removed the problem.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Restore point creation and task scheduler 'catastrophic failure'

« on: January 08, 2016, 07:50:26 am »

Having run Windows Repair v3.7.4 in safe mode on a PC and a Laptop both running Vista (one 32 bit the other 64bit) both machines had the same serious problem. When trying to create a restore point from within Windows I got the error "The restore point could not be created - catastrophic failure 0x8000FFFF" Got same error trying to access Task Scheduler. Attempting to do a System Restore from an existing restore point also failed.

Thankfully I had taken the advice in the program to back up the entire registry and also create a restore point from within the program. By restoring the registry from within the program itself, I was able to get the two machines working properly again.

I would like to run the program again as it appeared to have made some significant improvements but I am obviously wary of doing so in case the same problems occur and may not be so lucky in succeeding with the restore a second time.

Any ideas what may have caused these problems and whether unticking any of the options in running it would bypass the likely cause?

Incidentally, I reset the following Services several times to 'automatic' and rebooted several times but the error remained on both machines - WMI Performance adaptor, Background Intelligent transfer, Windows Management Instrumentation, Windows search and Plug and Play.