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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows 7 and WMI

« on: October 09, 2017, 09:58:24 am »

What other residual problems are you having ?

Does Event Viewer or reliability history record anything specific ?

- 2057 errors of all kinds in last 24 hours: top three: Service Control Manager,  Application Hang, DistributedCOM
- sfc found errors it could not fix
- very slow system response
- very slow Internet access
- various application programs would not load or run
- permission errors trying to access various data files
- previously installed windows update KBs missing

In my opinion the System Restore function is most viable immediately after installing problematic software or a faulty uninstall, but not so much when there have been significant configuration/permission changes deep in the operating system and/or registry.

I wasn't prepared to spend anymore time troubleshooting this issue and went straight to the nuclear option of reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling the O/S. Over the years I've devoted way too much time trying to fix these type of problems and no longer have the patience for it. For me a good rule of thumb is to keep all important data files on storage media separate from the O/S storage media.

For now I would caution anyone from attempting to use Windows Repair in Tweaking.com v4.0.7 on a Windows 7 system.     

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows 7 and WMI

« on: October 08, 2017, 09:36:55 am »

Same issue here on Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium 32-bit...

Using Tweaking.com v4.0.7, and after running Windows Repair, a number of services wouldn't start or work. Spent a considerable amount of time trying to troubleshoot the issue, but fortunately had done a Registry Backup.

Restoring the registry seems to have fixed the affected services, but continuing to have other residual problems. Overall the system is functioning worse than before running Windows Repair. Currently leaning toward reformatting the drive and reinstalling the O/S.

It appears that at a minimum Windows Repair causes bad/corrupted image paths for the services... very disappointing.