Tweaking.com - Windows Repair Change Log. v1.9.

8 Changed the "Set Windows Services To Default Startup" repair to pull the service s startup from a text file in the files folder instead of being hard coded. This will let users tweak this repair if they wish. The program will now keep Windows from going into sleep mode or hibernation when repairs are running. Added new repair "Repair Print Spooler" Added "Time Elapsed" to the repair Window, so now users can see how long the rep airs have been running. Add new settings tab to the main window. Under the new settings tab you can now change the default location for the log f iles. Changed the default location of the log files from the Windows drive to the Logs folder in the program folder. Added new repair "Restore Important Windows Services", this repair will replace all the services that the other repairs do. And as time goes I will add more ser vices to this repair. v1.9.7 Major changes to both "Reset Registry Permissions" and "Reset File Permissions". I found out that if you where on a non English system these two repairs simply wouldn't run and thus not change any permissions. This was because it was settin gs the permissions based on the names such as "Administrators" or "Everyone". On non English systems these are spelled differently and so would fail. I have cha nged these two repairs to set it by SID now instead of name. Example: Instead of "Administrators" it will use "S-1-5-32-544" (Which is the Windows Default SID f or Administrators). These two repairs will now work on non English systems. As a n added bonus, the two repairs run much faster now. The reason why is when I was using the names instead of the SID it had to go and lookup the SID of the names . Now that I am using the SID from the start it no longer has to do that lookup, thus making it run nearly twice as fast or better :-) Fixed bug where if you opened the repair window, then closed it and then went ba ck to it the repairs wouldn't work. This is because the program though it was in close down mode from closing the repair window. This has now been fixed. Program now shows how many repairs are selected above the repair list. Example: "Repair Options (Selected: 10 of 35)" The repair wmi was done in 3 steps to simply give a progress of what it is doing . Instead I have combined the 3 steps into 1. Unhide none system files now gives a count of how many files it unhides. Also ma de a new status window to show when the unhide repair is running. The Beta Repairs button will now be disabled when your running repairs. The program now lists all fixed drives in the system for the Reset File Permissi ons and Unhide Non System Files repairs. Before it would only do the drive that Windows is on, now you can have it do other fixed drives as well. By default onl y the Windows drive is selected.

Log window now shows when a repair is being ran under the system account and the current user account. The cmd.exe windows now show what repair it is doing in the title bar. The program now checks if it is being run from a network path. If it is it lets the user know that due to Windows network security most repairs will fail and to please run the program locally on the system. v1.9.6 Added renaming of the pending.xml file to the Repair Windows Updates Due to an odd bug with the Windows 8 app store I had to disabled the reset reg p ermissions repair for now for Windows 8 systems. For some reason even though the app store has permissions, if you change the permissions in any way under certa in keys under hkey local machine the app store will refuse to install apps and g ive the error code 0x8007064a. Until I can find out what keys the app store does n't like touched I will keep this repair disabled for Windows 8. v1.9.5 Fix bug where the program wouldn't go to the next repair if a cmd.exe was open. That means when the program was run from a bat file it wouldn't move forward. Th is bug was caused from a previous update. This is now fixed. Updated the "Set Windows Services To Default Startup" v1.9.4 On some systems, depending what programs are installed would not leave enough sy stem resources for the reg and file permissions repair. On these systems after t hose repairs the rest of the repairs wouldn't work because the system was out of resources. There are two simple reg tweaks that increase the system resources W indows will use. Both repairs will now apply those two reg keys. Not only will t his fix the resources being used up but should also fix any other program that r uns out of resources. A reg file for these two tweaks are in the files folder wi th the program. Added more files to the repair system restore. Nearly all repairs run under the system account. As I work on the repairs I noti ced something odd. Some parts of the repairs work when run under the current use r account and fail under the system account, and other parts fail under the user account and work with the system account. Such as adding reg files or registeri ng files. Here is an example registering the file blb_ps.dll under the user acco unt works while trying to register it under the system account fails, and this o nly happens with a few files while the rest work fine under both. To handle this I now have some of the repairs run twice, once under the user account then agai n under the system account. This should handle any odd permissions between the t wo accounts and insure that the repairs are successful. This isn't needed on all repairs. v1.9.3 Added a new section to the program called "Beta Repairs". There is a button on t he repair window that will open it for you. Added new beta repair "Repair System Restore" this is for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 . Microsoft has no repair info on the system restore. So I monitored what servic es and files the system restore needs and I am working on the first known system restore repair. This is in the beta section till I get user feedback on how it works and if it gets system restore working again for people.

v1.9.2 Per user request the main repair window is now resizable. Added 11 new file association repairs. What makes these repairs different than j ust clicking a reg file is on vista and newer some of the keys are locked. Since the program runs the repairs under the system account these repairs have access to those locked keys. Added a "Tips" button that loads a page on the site with some tips on which repa irs to run and tricks you can do with the program. Changed the list in the program to a treeview. I have some repairs unchecked by default now instead of all repairs checked. Many code changes. v1.9.1 Changes to the user interface. v1.9.0 Minor Interface changes. Program now pulls the information of each repair from a txt file instead of bein g directly in the program. Added the BITS service to the Repair Windows Updates. Added the wuauserv service to the Repair Windows Updates Added a few more things to the Repair Windows Updates. Added more support for Windows 8 repairs. Added more dll files to the register system files repair. Added new repair - "Repair Windows Safe Mode". This will put the default reg key s in order to boot into safe mode. Some viruses remove these reg keys. This will simply put the defaults back and allow safe mode to boot again. Added more to the "Remove Policies Set By Infections" repair. Multiple Code changes and improvements. v1.8.0 Replaced Erunt registry backup with Tweaking.com - Registry Backup Some new viruses have been adding programs to the Image File Execution Options i n the registry. Keeping those programs from running. I have added 773 more items to the Remove Policies Set By Infections. Added new repair "Repair Windows Snipping Tool". This will run on vista or newer and replace the reg keys needed for the snipping tool. Added new repair "Repair .lnk (Shortcuts) File Association" This will run on vis ta or newer. Updated the "Repair CD/DVD Missing/Not Working" to see if iTunes is running (Loo ks for ituneshelper.exe is running). If it is it puts the iTunes "UpperFilters" for the cd/dvd rom drive so iTunes wont give the error "Warning the registry set ting used for importing CD are missing". More info here http://support.apple.com /kb/TS2372?viewlocale=en_US Multiple code improvements. v1.7.5 Improved operating system detection code. What does this mean? Some repairs need to know what version of Windows it is running run to run the correct code. The program used WMI to pull this info. But if WMI was broken it didn't pull the inf o. I now have it use the Windows API to pull the Windows version, and if for any reason it fails it will fall back to using WMI to pull the info. v1.7.4 The program is now Terminal Server Aware. When you ran the program on a Windows server that had Terminal Services installed the Windows API returned the wrong p ath to the windows dir. This is now fixed. v1.7.3 Updated the Repair Windows Firewall. It now restores the reg keys for the BFE, M

PSSVC and WSCSVC services. Before it only put back the shared access service. Wh ich in XP is all the firewall needed. But in Vista and 7 it required more servic es. They are now part of the repair :-) v1.7.2 Small bug fixes to the log creation of the program. I have removed the 3 options "Basic" "Advanced" and "Custom" before you start th e repairs. Nearly all users that I have talk to, and myself included always choo se custom anyways. No need for these other options and they have been removed. S hould cut down on the confusion for new users on which to use. New interface changes to the repair window in the program. Added "Always On Top" option for the repair window. Added a minimize button to the repair window. With the always on top option if s omething opens behind the window and the user needs to get to it they can now mi nimize the window. Added a minimize button to the main window in the program for the heck of it :-) Code improvements. v1.7.1 Updated the Repair WMI to better handle the commands needed for the different ve rsion of Windows. While the WMI works great on XP, Vista and 7 it didn't work co rrectly on 2003 thus breaking WMI. I have added the commands need to have it run properly on 2003 :-) v1.7.0 Small improvements to a few repairs. Better support when running the program through a script. I have a good amount o f repair shops that use this repair tool. Some like to run the repair tool with the silent command and from a script in a bat file. The old version of the progr am would close any cmd.exe window before running the repairs. This of course def eated the purpose of running through a script. So I have changed the way the pro gram waits for a repair to finish. Instead of waiting for cmd.exe to close, each repair will now make a file. When the repair is finished it will delete the fil e, then the program will know to move onto the next repair. I now have the cmd.exe windows change to a gray background with black text. This way when running the program through a script you will know which cmd.exe windo w belongs to the windows repair :-) The program will now save any errors from the repairs into a txt file on the Win dows drive in a folder. Example: "C:\Tweaking.com_Windows_Repair_Logs\" Multiple log files are made for the permission repairs. This is because the MS tool does n't append to the log file, so a new file has to be made for each section. Since this could create a fair amount of log files I have the program cleanup any emp ty log files after the repairs are ran. v1.6.5 Program detects if you are running in safe mode and warns that some repairs may not work in safe mode. I have also made a few changes for all repairs to run better in safe mode. No gu arantees but should definitely run better in safe mode than it has before. Per user request you can now choose to restart or shutdown the computer after re pairs. I have the repair window resized to 750 x 550 pixels (Now bigger than before). T his is the max size to fit on the screen in safe mode which is normally 800 x 60 0. v1.6.4 Add ERUNT Registry backup tools. This is another option to backup the system reg istry before doing repairs. Also very helpful when a users system restore isn't working properly.

v1.6.3 Major improvement for the Reset File Permissions repair. On vista and newer the repair would allow access to folders windows normally blocked. Such as "C:\Progr amData\Application Data". Normally with this folder you would get an access deni ed. After you ran the reset file permissions repair you could access it. The sid e effect was that this folder points back to the C:\ProgramData folder. So it ma de an endless loop! The repair now checks if your on anything newer than XP. If you are then it runs a batch of commands after the repair that puts back the den y permissions on all the folders that are supposed to be blocked. This stops tha t endless loop from happening. 46 folders total. :-) v1.6.2 Per user request I have added a silent command option to the program. Set the op tions in the setting.ini file and run the program with /silent. The program will run in custom mode running the repairs set in the settings and then close it se lf. Will even reboot when done if set in the settings. (Perfect option for my fe llow network admins) :-) Small code changes. v1.6.1 Added new repair "Repair Missing Start Menu Icons Removed By Infections" This re pair will put back the missing icons in the start menu, quick launch, and deskto p that are moved by a rogue virus. v1.6.0 Added new repair "Repair MSI (Windows Installer)" Added exe fix (when a virus hijacks the exe section in the registry) to the "Rem ove Policies Set By Infections" repair. Improved "Repair Windows Updates". Small interface changes. v1.5.8 Bug Fix: I found a very odd bug where some of the repairs were not working right . All repairs run under the system account (because of the trusted installer in vista and newer). For some reason the repairs that set registry keys by a .reg f ile and with regedit would run but the changes wouldn't take. The fix was to hav e those repairs run as the logged in account. Still scratching my head on that o ne, but at least now they work again :-D Bug Fix: The repair windows firewall wasn't running all the repairs needed for i t. This has now been fixed. The Reset File Permissions now skips the "Users" folder in Vista and newer and " Documents and Settings". The reason for this is in Vista and newer there is a bu g where if the file permissions are changed in the user profile then Windows thi nks the file is shared when it isn't and you get a shared icon on it. More infor mation is here http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,69.0.html Small code improvements. v1.5.7 Changed Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) from "stisvc start= demand" to "stisvc s tart= auto" in the windows services repair. v1.5.6 The "Remove Policies Set By Infections" repair wasn't working properly. The comm ands where deleting the Reg file before it had been applied. I added the start / wait command to the regedit. "Remove Policies Set By Infections" Now works corre ctly :-) v1.5.5 Removed "WwanSvc start= demand" from the windows services repair. The program no longer defaults to the C:\ for repairs. The program now looks at

the location of the Windows dir and uses the drive that Windows is on. v1.5.4 On users machines who's "Path" variable was corrupt none of the repairs would wo rk. To fix this I have added "set path=%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%Syste mRoot%\System32\Wbem" to all the repairs. Now on users systems with a corrupt "p ath" variable the repairs will still work properly :-) v1.5.3 Changed 4 service defaults from manual to auto in the set services to default st artup repair. Media Center Receiver Service, Media Center Scheduler Service, Win dows Media Center Service Launcher and Windows Media Player Network Sharing Serv ice. Removed Panda cloud antivirus from the program and put Avast as a recommendation (Step 2 Window). Added ComboFix to the recommendation page (Step 2 Window). v1.5.2 Interface changes. v1.5.1 Blackvipers site listed the Windows 7 wireless service startup state as manual. But when it is set to manual it will not start and thus the user has no wireless . I have updated the services startup repair tool to put the wireless to auto in stead of manual. v1.5.0 Added a new repair "Set Windows Services To Default Startup". (Currently 194 ser vices) This will set the Windows services to their default startup state. Specia l thanks to http://www.blackviper.com/ for having all the default information ha ndy. This will set the services startup by the "sc config" command and not by th e registry. The information on the repair in the program lists all the services that are set. 1.4.3 The new setup file for the program was missing some of the repair files it neede d. The setup has been updated and I made this new version so people who download ed the last version will update and get the rest of the files they need. 1.4.2 Removed moving arrow from the repair window. Since the list of repairs is growin g and the list is scrollable the arrow didn't work well. In a past update I removed the custom buttons because they would cause the progr am to crash. The program then used the default old ugly buttons. I have made a n ew button control and updated the buttons so they look better, and it doesn't ca use the program to crash like the old ones. Program now asks the user if they want to create a restore point before doing re pairs if they didn't have the program create one. The program now comes in a setup program and the portable version. The new setup is larger because it contains the VB6 SP6 runtimes the program needs in case th ey are corrupt on the system that is being repaired. More Code tweaks and changes. v1.4.1 Added more files to the register system files repair that will fix "Class not re gistered" when trying to open a .mmc file. Such as Task scheduler, Device Manage r, Computer Management and more. Program now starts the Windows Sidebar after the Windows Sidebar repair. Removed the security zones in IE being reset with the sidebar repair. More code tweaks and improvements.

v1.4.0 Removed the custom buttons from the program. It was causing the program to crash on some systems. Program is meant to repair, not look pretty, so ugly standard safe buttons it is :-) Add new repair "Repair Windows Sidebar/Gadgets" Changed the window size of the repair window, making it smaller and easier to fi t on screen for smaller resolutions. More code tweaks. v1.3.1 Minor GUI and code Tweaks. v1.3.0 If you ran an older version of this repair program and it caused problems on you r system, download and run this version and it will fix any problems it caused : -) Added new repair "Repair Volume Shadow Copy Service" Major update to the program making it safer and better at repairs. Make sure to use this new version and not the old versions. v1.2.0 Per user request - Added a new repair "Repair CD/DVD Missing/Not Working" Fixed bug where when repairing WMI the WMI tester would open and the program wou ldn't move forward till the WMI tester was closed. Most users didn't know to clo se this. I have made the program now look for and close the WMI tester if it pop s up during the WMI repair. v1.1.1 Remove some files from the Register System Files repair. While this repair worke d great on a lot of some systems on a few ones it would create more problems. Th e repair now has a much smaller list of only known good files to register. Updated Repair IE section. Updated Repair MDAC Section. v1.1.0 Major changes to how the program launches the repairs. It now shows the command window doing the repair in the task bar. Also should work better with the UAC en abled and running the commands as administrator. This will also keep the program from not responding during repairs. Updated the file permissions repair to include everyone and users full rights. I t use to do just Administrators & System. But on some machines they needed more to get things working right again. This should fix that. Replaced some of the controls in the program so the program & zip file is smalle r in size. v1.0.2 Fixed bug in Repair WMI (Hopefully got it this time) Added link to help fix any problems someone might have with the file permissions repair. v1.0.1 Fixed bug in Repair WMI GUI Changes. v1.0.0 First Release