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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Norton security warning for latest Tweaking update file ( Feb. 16 2019)

« on: February 16, 2019, 04:12:30 pm »

Please note,
MY error. in my previous post.
Thanks to family interruptions, I managed to get confused between OS 's working on two different machines and two different OS's.
The OS for the Compaq V6000 was not WIN 10, it was WIN 7, again fully updated and patch

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Norton security warning for latest Tweaking update file ( Feb. 16 2019)

« on: February 16, 2019, 03:55:14 pm »

" Norton Internet Security, fully updated and patched.
OS=WIN 10, fully updated and patched.
Norton Internet Security operative.
Compaq Presario V6000.

Attempted to update to latest version of Tweaking, received security message from Norton.

  "Auto-detect blocked this heuristic virus (Heur. AdvML.C)".

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Tweaking and WIN 2000 Professional, (WIN2K),compatible, or not?

« on: August 04, 2018, 11:54:00 am »

Being people who do not need to have the latest toy, I and my family still use Windows 2000 Pro, and Office 2000 Pro running on HP Visualize X-class PCs for most of our computing other than e-mail. WIN2K does everything that we need and it is not cluttered with extraneous junk.

Please, I would like to know if there is a version, ( probably very old) of Tweaking which can be run safely and effectively to clean-up WIN2K, rather than having to run a complete rebuild of several WIN2K systems in use by my family.

Thank you for your attention to my request.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Deceptive progress counter in disk clean-up, (Scan & Repair drive)

« on: March 18, 2017, 04:15:40 pm »

O.K. I note your comments about chkdsk and the two external HDD.

There seems to be a little confusion between my use of two different names for the disk clean up utility involved with this incident. The only HDD clean-up tool used during the current exercise was the one incorporated in the 'Tweaking' utility, (Scan and Repair module). Knowing no better, I simply worked my way step by step through the process defined by the row of module names on the home page of 'Tweaking', working from left to right on the screen; starting with the hard reset and Safe Mode set-up.

Why should I run the 'Tweaking' disk cleaner " Scan and Repair" on the external drives separately from the internal HDD?
Your software seems to handle the task well, apart from the 'frozen' progress counter. ( And the recursion! it is of interest to note that the recursion event mentioned did not happen during a previous pass through the complete 'Tweaking' process a few days ago, so it took me by surprise this time round the loop.

I tend to think of the three HDD in my hardware system as a single large storage resource, hardware partitioned.
Each HDD is dedicated to a different function; e.g:
 Internal HDD, operating system, hardware drivers etc, and application software, (e.g. FireFox, Open Office, Tweaking etc.).
 HDD 1, Library,
 HDD 2, Back-up repository.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Deceptive progress counter in disk clean-up, (Scan & Repair drive)

« on: March 18, 2017, 09:29:45 am »

Sorry about that, I used the wrong term, I should have said 'Scan and Repair'. I was thinking 'diskclean'. Of course, running overnight did not work out, I would not have been able to monitor the progress counter, so I had to postpone to yesterday, March 17. I started the Scan and Repair process at 0800 and it ran until 1545. At 1545 the scan stopped, for a moment or two, the PC screen showed the WIN start up screen, and then immediately the P.C. launched into' Scan and Repair' again. That had me worried, because it looked as if the software  system had gone recursive. My concern was 'how do I stop this recursion without severely damaging my software environment?' I let the system run while I tried to formulate a plan of action, eventually, the only reasonable interrupt that I could think of was to let the Scan and Repair process run to completion and to intervene when the WIN start up screen popped up again. To my great relief the second pass of the Scan and Repair process terminated after it had finished its work on the first HDD, removing the need for manual intervention.

My original post about the 'frozen' progress counter was confirmed, it sat  there stubbornly indicating '10% complete' during the entire seven and three quarter hour process pass for the three HDD. I followed your process rigorously, yes, including complete disconnect from the primary a.c. supply by the simple expedient of disconnecting the a.c. supply connector, and a one minute wait to allow capacitors in the p.s.u. to discharge fully.

I can confirm that I used my sysadmin account and that 'safe mode with networking' was the mode of operation, also that the wireless communication path was shut off, as indicated by the red cross on the icon.

The P.C. is connected to my DSL gateway and router via a hard wired connection, not WIFI. I consider the wireless link to be less secure than the hard wired connection.

In case you need to know these things, I have included some system information about the P.C. I am using:

HP TouchSmart 310-1125f, 8GB RAM, HP Product number BV551AA#ABA, serial number 4CS1150KP9. AMD Vision c.p.u.
I internal HDD, 2 external HDD via USB 2.

Operating system WIN 10 Home, 64 bit.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Deceptive progress counter in disk clean-up, (Scan & Repair drive)

« on: March 16, 2017, 02:55:01 pm »

Thank you for the quick responses, they are much appreciated.
I will do as you ask and run the program again, but, due to the size of my hard disks, the disk clean process takes several hours; consequently the rational way to do a disk clean is overnight. Ergo, I will not be able to reply until tomorrow March 16 2017.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Deceptive progress counter in disk clean-up, (Scan & Repair drive)

« on: March 16, 2017, 10:41:56 am »

Definitely ran the program in SAFE mode, followed instructions rigorously, starting with a clean boot as instructed, then into Admin account and safe mode; cannot remember if I used Safe Mode with Networking.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Deceptive progress counter in disk clean-up, (Scan & Repair drive)

« on: March 15, 2017, 05:16:26 pm »

I am a new user of Tweaking, following the instructions module by module I selected the 'Scan & Repair drive' module. The module appeared to run correctly, but the progress counter did not increment correctly; it froze at '10% complete', leaving me completely in the dark as to the progress of the operation. Since I have two very large capacity hard disk drives, that made me very uncomfortable. I could not tell if the software operation was proceeding correctly, if it had gone recursive, or if it had stopped completely.
Please, may I request that this note be treated as a 'bug report' and a fix designed and implemented.
P.S. I like the software and it did a good job with no hang-ups, thank you.
Sorry, I left out some critical information, in my original post.
My operating system is WIN10 Home, fully updated and patched. Similarly my Tweaking software is fully updated and patched. Too many demands on my time lead to a rather hasty, and incomplete post.