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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Chinese characters in US Repair Parse Points results

« on: March 25, 2023, 11:49:04 pm »

Chinese characters in US Repair Parse Points results.

What's this?

I rebooted and re-ran Tweaking Windows repair and re-ran check reparse points ( and chkDsk, and DISM ), and "Problems Found?: No", but the tab saying [ (Information ) All Found reparse Points On System ] has these Chinese characters shown below ( I included a prior OK line and an OK line after ).

I searched the disk for such characters and found none.

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JUNCTION,Content.IE5,C:\Users\1st-user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.IE5,C:\Users\1st-user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\IE,2023-03-25 5:40:42 PM

UNKNOWN,MicrosoftEdge.exe,C:\Users\1st-user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\MicrosoftEdge.exe,爀漀猀漀昀琀⸀䴀椀挀爀漀猀漀昀琀䔀搀最攀开㠀眀攀欀礀戀㌀搀㠀戀戀眀攀℀䴀椀挀爀漀猀漀昀琀䔀搀最攀,2023-01-10 3:51:05 PM

UNKNOWN,MicrosoftEdge.exe,C:\Users\1st-user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge.exe,爀漀猀漀昀琀⸀䴀椀挀爀漀猀漀昀琀䔀搀最攀开㠀眀攀欀礀戀㌀搀㠀戀戀眀攀℀䴀椀挀爀漀猀漀昀琀䔀搀最攀,2023-01-10 3:51:05 PM

JUNCTION,My Music,C:\Users\1st-user\Documents\My Music,C:\Users\1st-user\Music,2022-08-12 8:47:05 AM

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JUNCTION,Content.IE5,C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.IE5,C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\IE,2023-03-26 1:43:25 AM

UNKNOWN,MicrosoftEdge.exe,C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\MicrosoftEdge.exe,爀漀猀漀昀琀⸀䴀椀挀爀漀猀漀昀琀䔀搀最攀开㠀眀攀欀礀戀㌀搀㠀戀戀眀攀℀䴀椀挀爀漀猀漀昀琀䔀搀最攀,2022-10-20 8:03:27 PM

UNKNOWN,python.exe,C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python.exe,眀攀,2022-10-20 8:03:36 PM

UNKNOWN,python3.exe,C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python3.exe,眀攀,2022-10-20 8:03:36 PM

UNKNOWN,winget.exe,C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\winget.exe,眀攀,2022-10-20 8:03:36 PM

UNKNOWN,python.exe,C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\python.exe,眀攀,2022-10-20 8:03:36 PM

UNKNOWN,python3.exe,C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\python3.exe,眀攀,2022-10-20 8:03:36 PM

UNKNOWN,winget.exe,C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\winget.exe,眀攀,2022-10-20 8:03:36 PM

UNKNOWN,MicrosoftEdge.exe,C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge.exe,爀漀猀漀昀琀⸀䴀椀挀爀漀猀漀昀琀䔀搀最攀开㠀眀攀欀礀戀㌀搀㠀戀戀眀攀℀䴀椀挀爀漀猀漀昀琀䔀搀最攀,2022-10-20 8:03:27 PM

JUNCTION,My Music,C:\Users\_\Documents\My Music,C:\Users\_\Music,2022-10-20 8:03:19 PM

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What is this?

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / 4.13.1 hesitates during startup file enumeration, unlike 4.12

« on: February 14, 2023, 06:55:24 am »

4.13.1 of Repair Windows hesitates and appears to fail to enumerate it's files upon loading, compared to 4.12, which enumerates it's files immediately and quickly, moving the progress bar and number count quickly.

On older, slower computers, the hesitation is so severe that 4.13.1 appears to lock up and be totally dysfunctional, so I've been killing 4.13.1, and reverting to v4.12 instead.

Is this startup hesitation something new happening with 4.13.1, an inbuilt programming self-check change, or does this indicate something else with the computer under test needs attention?

I've experienced this mostly with Windows 7 x64 Pro, 2-core computers, HDD, usually 4GB ram ( not newfangled multi-multi-core, SSD equipped, 16+GB ram beasts ).

Any clues?

Thanks for letting us explore this and share.
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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: Google Chrome blocking Tweaking downloads on 2018-10-29

« on: October 30, 2018, 05:13:44 pm »

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I suppose that folks who know how to come to this bulletin discussion board can ask and maybe find reports like this that may help them deal with having difficulties, especially sudden difficulties, with obtaining and trusting any Tweaking program release.

Your advice to them is to whitelist in order to to obtain any blocked Tweaking program, then scan it with malware scanners, then interpret the results ... and then maybe report here if they are not confident the results are copacetic, I suppose.

Thanks.
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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: Google Chrome blocking Tweaking downloads on 2018-10-29

« on: October 30, 2018, 04:03:40 am »

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While I appreciate how to work around false positives, I'm here to make Tweaking.com aware of being hit, I'm not here just to advise folks how to work around walls.

I know Tweaking has powerful programs, but protecting people from intentionally downloading Tweaking Windows Repair is like protecting people from intentionally preparing food in their own kitchen because ... KNIVES!

Yet, if any Tweaking Windows Repair release file suddenly DOES have an infection ( it could happen ), I WANT to know, I do NOT want to whitelist the entire Tweaking website forever, indemnifying them from the possibility of ever being invaded or compromised ( as if ), and then myself being invaded and compromised as a result.

So, it makes sense for Tweaking to inspect v4.3.0 release files and to inspect Google Chrome v69-et-cetera to see what changed ( OMG, Google Chrome just updated again while I was writing this -- does Google Chrome have to use Atomic Clock resolution to differentiate and keep track of how frequently they update ?!? ).

This is NOT a "whitelist" problem.

"Whitelisting" is for spam filters to let complex emails from intended contacts through AND inspect them for malware.

"Whitelisting" is for web content filters to let intended web content through AND check it for malware.

As I wrote, the Tweaking Windows Repair v4.3.0 zip file downloads no problem, it just sits behind a wall in Google Chrome waiting for the user to give permission, but they have to go to a different screen, in case they did not know, and I offered insight on how to access it for users who might not know that it's really there on their computer, yes, they can and did download it successfully.

Using "whitelisting" inappropriately just luls us into an inappropriately trusting unprotected mindset begging for invasion.

So ... Tweaking v4.3.0 zip now has 4 hits at VirusTotal:

Antiy-AVL   Trojan/Win32.SGeneric   20181029
Cylance   Unsafe   20181030
Jiangmin   Trojan.Generic.bltld   20181030
VBA32   TScope.Malware-Cryptor.SB   20181029 <- new for v4.3.0 !

Google Chrome AND VirusTotal both pointing fingers at Tweaking Windows Repair v4.3.0?
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Ok, I've let you all know what's happening at the user's end today, I ain't the boss, so you all decide what to do, if anything.
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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: Google Chrome blocking Tweaking downloads on 2018-10-29

« on: October 29, 2018, 05:48:47 pm »

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Thanks, but I don't want to whitelist an entire website ( and I don't know the URLs of the download until I click it, and it downloads, but is blocked on my client browser end after downloading successfully ), what if any of Tweaking's offerings ever get infected?

I'd like Tweaking downloads to present as safe to safety inspectors,

... and I'd like safety inspectors to recognise the content of ( non-infected ) Tweaking programs as safe, and wanted.

Think of infected versions of CCleaner that were released ... if I had whitelisted and trusted Piriform just because it's good ol' Piriform ...
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Feedback & Suggestions / Google Chrome blocking Tweaking downloads on 2018-10-29

« on: October 29, 2018, 02:33:20 pm »

Google Chrome is blocking Tweaking downloads on 2018-10-29

To remedy, in Google Chrome, start the download and let it finish, then hit [ Ctrl ][ J ] and look at the download list for the blocked download file, and click [ Keep ] and continue to accept that you want to keep it anyway in spite of the warning, then you can open your downloaded file wherever it's been saved to your computer.

That's how to continue to get Tweaking downloads through Google Chrome.

Someone gonna figure this out and come up with a fix?

Google Chrome v69.0.3497.100
LastChange 920e690dd011895672947112477d10d5c8afb09-refs/branch-heads/3497@{#948}
Official Build 1

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( If ONLY Google Chrome would be so attentive to keep Microsoft Windows Updates from downloading! )

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / > nul in DOS windows wait for [ Enter ] key

« on: February 12, 2016, 11:47:55 pm »

> nul in DOS windows wait for [ Enter ] key

I have two modern Windows 8.1 machines ( multicore, 16 GB ram, lots of drive space ), one works repairs smoothly, the DOS boxes either never show up as it progresses, or they show up, run zippy through their stuff, and close -- also will successfully reboot to safe mode for repairs.

The other computer sits at the DOS box and waits, I click in the box, hit [ Enter ], and it moves a step forward, sometimes I have to keep responding to a series of > NUL's, sometimes it finishes on it's own and closes the DOS box, but the next DOS box requires the same babysitting ... through 47 repairs!  Also will not successfully reboot to safe mode so I'm doing repairs in virtual / real mode.

Repeated these symptoms over months with 3.4 through 3.8, same behavior.

Anyone see this before?

What dd you do?

Thanks.