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Post by irvsp on Jun 9, 2015 19:56:42 GMT
Got a BLUE SCREEN just now telling me I had to Authenticate Windows and an OK which took me to a Settings page and I clicked OK. Immediately came back as Authenticated.
I've had this system for a little over a year now. I've NEVER seen this before and have no new Windows Updates done either?
What goes?
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Post by Lighthouse on Jun 9, 2015 21:02:42 GMT
Have you installed any software, re-imaged, or done anything different in the last 30 days?
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Post by irvsp on Jun 9, 2015 21:58:13 GMT
Have you installed any software, re-imaged, or done anything different in the last 30 days? Yes and no... I do image, but that is a save/back-up, not a replace. I have hit a small snag on the Dell box thanks to GWX. It told me the Dell 1703 wireless/Bluetooth device might not work under W10. So I went looking for later drivers. Couldn't find and so I tried to re-load the old one just in case. I do NOT use the card for wireless and rarely will use the BT part. When I tried to install the driver I see 3 choices, remove, repair, and modify... so I chose repair. Get a crazy dialog box telling me in poor English that the 'existed driver is older than the driver' or something to that effect. Had to call Dell and this is what you see: Turned out you do NOT use REPAIR but MODIFY... and to top it off I did NOT have the latest already install which I thought I had. Of course the Dialog box was tell me that I was using and OLDER version? I also discovered my Card Reader was causing me a problem. I could read ONE card, but once I took it out the device disappeared and I had to re-boot. Dell Tech WAS on my computer and had NEVER seen that. So we got the latest driver, but that one continued to re-install the devices on EVERY BOOT... Tech started REMOVING stuff from the Registry... and I forgot about that. Went into Device Driver and UNINSTALLED/DELETED all Gray devices in the HIDDEN list and then into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{36fc9e60-c465-11cf-8056-444553540000} and looked at each entry under it (numbers, 001, 002, etc. and they were all USB) and took out some that she said were 'empty'. Now that you reminded me of that, I suspect that did it, took out the authentication or made the h/w look different to MS? I'll see if I get 'hit' again... thanks for jogging my memory. Attachments:
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Post by Lighthouse on Jun 10, 2015 10:57:58 GMT
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Post by irvsp on Jun 10, 2015 14:20:02 GMT
Well not knowing they'd 'muck' with the registry it never crossed my mind to do this. When I'm in there messing with I always do a backup just in case. Regshot seemed interesting, but I can't get it from the link, nothing happens after this: Can get it from sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/ though. Can't get to the Beta area either from the above as I get the same page that doesn't go anywhere. I'm on 64-bit and there is a different area for 64 bit items, so it may NOT be useful either? Wait, there is one included. I'll give it a try on my next install I guess. I'll also run it today when they show up to replace the card reader which I do NOT think is the root problem.
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Post by Lighthouse on Jun 10, 2015 14:32:07 GMT
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Post by irvsp on Jun 10, 2015 14:56:41 GMT
One I got from the SourceForge link is newer by a year as well, Regshot 1.9.0 (2013-02-02), Google appears to have 1.8.3 and it says Beta as well for x64. 1.9.0 has both versions and I assume is NOT Beta but they also have two x64 versions, ANSI and UNICODE. Sourceforge has other tools as well, CRegistry Comparison and Reg-Runner but I've not looked at them. First one seemed best suited for problems like I had probably?
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Post by Lighthouse on Jun 10, 2015 15:45:45 GMT
Be wary of stuff downloaded from SF, they are bundling crap.
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Post by irvsp on Jun 10, 2015 16:12:01 GMT
Be wary of stuff downloaded from SF, they are bundling crap. I know but these didn't seem to have any? At least not showing up as icons or in the Program File list for removal? I can't believe RegShot it seems, or I should say I don't know if the data it presented is valid. As a test I took a 'shot and save' just before installing CRegistry Comparision, just to see what it changed. This is the major heading out as RegShot showed over 200 Registry changes, and I must say that surprised me as it installed lickety split. Keys deleted: 6 Keys added: 36 Values deleted: 46 Values added: 105 Values modified: 29 Total changes: 222 Looking at the details in some cases I have NO CLUE why? OK, uninstalled CRegistry Comparision (I opened it up, looked at it, decided it wasn't what I wanted, no operations performed). Took another 'shot and save' and then did a compare and it also uninstalled using Advance Uninstaller Pro with the file/registry leftover search and all it discovered was a .log file leftover. Results are: Keys deleted: 38 Keys added: 8 Values deleted: 111 Values added: 36 Values modified: 48 Total changes: 241 Obviously the Registry is NOT back to where it was before I installed CRegistry Compare. Why? Don't know. Other than opening it I did nothing else (that I'm aware of at least). Hard to tell who is at fault here is anyone. Is RegShot not handling everything properly? Is the uninstall for CRegistry Compare incomplete or wrong? Were actions going on in the background changing things as well? RegShot doesn't make it easy either. The saved file has a .HIV extension. I can open it using this LINK but it is a pain to look at such a large file (complete Reg dump). Bottom line is I'm not sure I trust it? Feel free to experiment if you wish :-)
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