May 7th, 2012· Updated the Repair Windows Firewall. It now restores the reg keys for the BFE, MPSSVC and WSCSVC services. Before it only put back the shared access service. Which in XP is all the firewall needed. But in Vista and 7 it required more services. They are now part of the repair :-)
April 30th, 2012· Small bug fixes to the log creation of the program.
· I have removed the 3 options "Basic" "Advanced" and "Custom" before you start the repairs. Nearly all users that I have talk to, and myself included always choose custom anyways. No need for these other options and they have been removed. Should 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 something opens behind the window and the user needs to get to it they can now minimize the window.
· Added a minimize button to the main window in the program for the heck of it
· Code improvements.
April 23rd, 2012· Updated the Repair WMI to better handle the commands needed for the
· different version of Windows. While the WMI works great on XP, Vista and
· 7 it didn't work correctly on 2003 thus breaking WMI. I have added the
· commands need to have it run properly on 2003 :-)
· All 21 individual repair programs have been updated to v1.7.1 as well.
April 17th, 2012· Small improvements to a few repairs.
· Better support when running the program through a script. I have a good amount of 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 program would close any cmd.exe window before running the repairs. This of course defeated the purpose of running through a script. So I have changed the way the program 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 file, 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 window belongs to the windows repair
· The program will now save any errors from the repairs into a txt file on the Windows 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 doesn'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 empty log files after the repairs are ran.
March 26th, 2012· 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 guarantees 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 repairs.
· I have the repair window resized to 750 x 550 pixels (Now bigger than
· before). This is the max size to fit on the screen in safe mode which is
· normally 800 x 600.
February 13th, 2012· Add ERUNT Registry backup tools. This is another option to backup the system registry before doing repairs. Also very helpful when a users system restore isn't working properly.
February 1st, 2012· 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:\ProgramData\Application Data". Normally with this folder you would get an access denied. After you ran the reset file permissions repair you could access it. The side effect was that this folder points back to the C:\ProgramData folder. So it made 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 deny permissions on all the folders that are supposed to be blocked. This stops that endless loop from happening. 46 folders total.
January 30th, 2012· Added a silent command option to the program. Set the options 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 self. Will even reboot when done if set in the settings.
· Small code changes.
January 23rd, 2012· Added new repair "Repair Missing Start Menu Icons Removed By Infections" This repair will put back the missing icons in the start menu, quick launch, and desktop that are moved by a rouge virus.
January 16th, 2012· Added new repair "Repair MSI (Windows Installer)"
· Added exe fix (when a virus hijacks the exe section in the registry) to
· the "Remove Policies Set By Infections" repair.
· Improved "Repair Windows Updates".
· Small interface changes.
January 4th, 2012· 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 file and with regedit would run but the changes wouldn't take. The fix was to have those repairs run as the logged in account. Still scratching my head on that one, but at least now they work again
· Bug Fix: The repair windows firewall wasn't running all the repairs needed for it. 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 bug where if the file permissions are changed in the user profile then Windows thinks the file is shared when it isn't and you get a shared icon on it.
· Small code improvements.
December 27th, 2011· Changed Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) from "stisvc start= demand" to
· "stisvc start= auto" in the windows services repair.
December 20th, 2011· The "Remove Policies Set By Infections" repair wasn't working properly. The commands 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 correctly
December 17th, 2011· 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.
December 13th, 2011· On users machines who's "Path" variable was corrupt none of the repairs would work. To fix this I have added "set path=%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem" to all the repairs. Now on users systems with a corrupt "path" variable the repairs will still work properly
November 28th, 2011· Changed 4 service defaults from manual to auto in the set services to default startup repair. Media Center Receiver Service, Media Center Scheduler Service, Windows Media Center Service Launcher and Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service.
· 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).
November 8th, 2011· Updated the services startup repair tool to put the wireless to auto instead of manual.
November 3rd, 2011· Added a new repair "Set Windows Services To Default Startup". (Currently 194 services) This will set the Windows services to their default startup state. Special thanks to http://www.blackviper.com/ for having all the default information handy. This will set the services startup by the "sc config" command and not by the registry. The information on the repair in the program lists all the services that are set.
October 26th, 2011· The new setup file for the program was missing some of the repair files it needed
October 25th, 2011· Removed moving arrow from the repair window. Since the list of repairs is growing and the list is scrollable the arrow didn't work well.
· In a past update the custom buttons were removed because they would cause the program to crash. The program then used the default old ugly buttons. A new button control has been created and updated the buttons so they look better, and it doesn't cause the program to crash like the old ones.
· Program now asks the user if they want to create a restore point before doing repairs 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 they are corrupt on the system that is being repaired.
· More Code tweaks and changes.
October 17th, 2011· Added more files to the register system files repair that will fix "Class not registered" when trying to open a .mmc file.
· Such as Task scheduler, Device Manager, 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.
October 11th, 2011· 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 fit on screen for smaller resolutions.
· More code tweaks.
October 10th, 2011· Minor GUI and code Tweaks.
October 7th, 2011· If you ran an older version of this repair program and it caused problems on your 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.
October 4th, 2011· 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 wouldn't move forward till the WMI tester was closed. Most users didn't know to close this. I have made the program now look for and close the WMI tester if it pops up during the WMI repair.
September 27th, 2011· Remove some files from the Register System Files repair. While this repair worked great on a lot of some systems on a few ones it would create more problems. The repair now has a much smaller list of only known good files to register.
· Updated Repair IE section.
· Updated Repair MDAC Section.
September 24th, 2011· 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 enabled 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. It 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 smaller in size.
September 23rd, 2011· Fixed bug in Repair WMI
· Added link to help fix any problems someone might have with the file
· permissions repair.
September 6th, 2011· Fixed bug in Repair WMI
· GUI Changes.
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