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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Newest All In One Repair Beaten

« on: November 25, 2011, 11:39:23 am »

Shane/friedmonky,

  Well, a solution has been found. A comment from techie007 over at SuperUser and Shane's reply here got me onto the right track. And, embarrassing as it is, it might have been easier for your folks to solve it directly if I hadn't left out a few details from my long-winded explanation of the problem. Seems I forgot I also did TWO other things at the time of the NAS issue. I also installed a honking huge Nortel switch (New, out of the box, despite the box being a little dusty) AND I moved a Samsung colour laser printer from being directly connected to my computer to the switch and then becoming available to the computers elsewhere in the house. Yes, I can see the light bulbs going off in your heads now.

  The solution was setting up the SPOOLER dependency to include lanmanserver.

  Serves me right. Out of sight, out of mind, despite a noise profile pretty similar to that of an aircraft carrier. A key detail forgotten. I remember setting up the printer on the other three computers and then forgetting about it completely. Well, other than to be annoyed when somebody wandered into my office to get some printout while I was doing something productive. But other than that ...

  Now, the only question that remains from this fiasco is, why did AIO Repair fix the issue that first time? It's an academic question and one I'm curious about. But the answer might be more serendipity than design. And raw, unadulterated luck rarely revisits the oblivious. If you want more info Shane, happy to oblige, given the time and effort responding here and participating in creating the program.

  Regards, GM

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Newest All In One Repair Beaten

« on: November 24, 2011, 09:11:27 pm »

Hi all,

  I've posted this message over in Stack Overflow's SuperUser forum to no avail. For members here that are members there, I apologize for the cross-posting. The reason I'm posting the issue here is that the original occurrence of the issue WAS resolved by AIO Repair v1.01. But the re-occurrence of the issue has, so far, beaten the current (last two) versions of AIO Repair. I am stymied by all of this and would be thrilled to find out I'm doing something simple wrong. But I suspect I've got a unique issue with no easy solution. Please prove me wrong. And at rate, here's the (overly) detailed description of the issue:

I had a third NAS added to my home system this summer. At that time, I started to develop an issue wherein the start of my Win 7SP1 becomes a two-step process. MOST stuff seems to load immediately from my SSD. Then, about 16 minutes later, a couple of other programs plus the sidebar loads. It's a very consistent 16 minutes. I also don't have access to many system level processes until the later group of programs loads. For example, I can't uninstall programs via Windows Uninstaller or Revo Uninstaller. If I click on them, nothing SEEMS to happen. But when that 16 minutes expires, my screens become a riot of exploding opening windows ... if I've gotten click-happy. I 'repaired' this a while ago by running Tweaking.com's Windows Repair AIO. But, it seems to come back after just every Patch Tuesday. And after this most recent one, the Tweaking.com solution didn't resolve the issue. I'm prone to only rebooting about once every three weeks, so this isn't a life-and-death issue. But it is an itch I'd like to scratch.

From the Windows Event Viewer logs, I know DCOM fails early in the boot process. Says DCOM can't be found.I don't know specifically what files to look for manually. But I do see DCOM entries in the Window\PolicyDefinitions folder and a dcomcnfg file in Windows\System32 and in Windows\SysWOW64. Duplicates seem to appear in the winsxs sub-system. I don't see anything bizarre about the execute line: C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k DcomLaunch. And by the time I CAN look at services, it says DCOM's started and is automatic. The dependencies are through Remote Procedure Call. The only non-Windows services I can detect (not that I REALLY know what I'm doing) are Avast! AntiVirus, Google Update Service (gupdate) and Google Update Service (gupdatem). If I had to pick candidates, the Google Update Service would be high on the list.

After DCOM's initial failure, I get a warning about custom dynamic link libraries and then Service Control Manager logs that it is taking more than 4 minutes to start. Some 11 minutes later, it logs being hung ... then everything loads and everything works!! There is nothing in the log I can see where SCM then succeeds.

Here are entries from the log ...
Date: 11/14/2011 4:17:08 AM
Event Type: Error
Username:
Computer Name: Quincy
Source: DCOM
Event ID: 3221235482
Category: (0) -  Category Number: 0
Message: The description for Event ID '-1073731814' in Source 'DCOM' cannot be found.  The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display the message, or you may not have permission to access them.  The following information is part of the event:'{E10F6C3A-F1AE-4ADC-AA9D-2FE65525666E}'

Date: 11/14/2011 4:18:02 AM
Event Type: Warning
Username: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer Name: Quincy
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Wininit
Event ID: 11
Category: (0) -  Category Number: 0
Message: Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application. The system administrator should review the list of libraries to ensure they are related to trusted applications.

Date: 11/14/2011 4:22:19 AM
Event Type: Warning
Username:
Computer Name: Quincy
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 2147490692
Category: (0) -  Category Number: 0
Message: The following service is taking more than 4 minutes to start and may have stopped responding: Server
Contact your system administrator or service vendor for approximate startup times for this service.
If you think this service might be slowing system response or logon time, talk to your system administrator about whether the service should be disabled until the problem is identified. You may have to restart the computer in safe mode before you can disable the service.

Date: 11/14/2011 4:33:19 AM
Event Type: Error
Username:
Computer Name: Quincy
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 3221232494
Category: (0) -  Category Number: 0
Message: The Server service hung on starting.

Ideas?

Thanks in advance, GM