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DavidR · 2015-07-28T13:07:26.000Z

Rednose post:9919:

@ David

Of cource I have checked the issue with the run key.
And from the path listed by Bret on LandzDown, everything was still there after updating.
But I went back to my image, and will stay with v33.6.2015.1 for now, because of the Scheduled Tasks issue.
I have simply too many doubts about this ( and previous ) build(s).

Greetz, Red.

P.S. Attached a screenshot of the 2 missing Scheduled Tasks items in v33.6.2015.17 .

Interesting entries in the registry as sub-keys of the RUN key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (Disabled by Starter)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\AutorunsDisabled

I have no idea what created these, but I found the avastUI.exe run entry in there when I looked after v33.6.2015.16. That appeared to be all I was missing, I exported both Run and Disabled by keys and copied the avastUI.exe entry into the Run key .reg file and ran it - that put it back in the RUN key registry.

I don’t appear to have any missing scheduled tasks, I never allow flash player to check for updates, the only entries are for dropbox and the avast emergency update check.

For now I will continue with v33.6.2015.17 and keey an eye on it.

Rednose · 2015-07-29T12:59:32.000Z

WinPatrol v33.6.2015.18

What’s new in V33.6.2015.18 (posted July 27th)

Fixes bug that resulted in some customers not seeing any scheduled tasks.
The scheduled tasks fix will result in some customers being prompted for UAC when opening WinPatrol Explorer.

https://www.winpatrol.com/mydownloads/

EDIT : This version indeed solves my problem(s) with Scheduled Tasks, and so far I didn’t notice any other issues

Greetz, Red.

ehmen · 2015-07-29T22:15:02.000Z

Rednose post:9922:

WinPatrol v33.6.2015.18

What’s new in V33.6.2015.18 (posted July 27th)
Fixes bug that resulted in some customers not seeing any scheduled tasks.
The scheduled tasks fix will result in some customers being prompted for UAC when opening WinPatrol Explorer.
https://www.winpatrol.com/mydownloads/

EDIT : This version indeed solves my problem(s) with Scheduled Tasks, and so far I didn’t notice any other issues

Greetz, Red.

But just to be on the safe side, I’d suggest creating a restore point on your system before installing.

Rednose · 2015-07-29T22:32:24.000Z

ehmen post:9923:

But just to be on the safe side, I’d suggest creating a restore point on your system before installing.

I prefer to make an image, which I did

Greetz, Red.

DavidR · 2015-07-29T23:11:11.000Z

Rednose post:9924:

ehmen post:9923:

But just to be on the safe side, I’d suggest creating a restore point on your system before installing.

I prefer to make an image, which I did

Greetz, Red.

System Restore doesn’t provide 100% restoration it only covers certain files and areas. Disk Imaging makes an exact copy of the Disk or Partition, etc. for me it really is the only solution when you want a robust Backup and Recovery strategy.

bob3160 · 2015-07-29T23:24:53.000Z

DavidR post:9925:

Rednose post:9924:

ehmen post:9923:

But just to be on the safe side, I’d suggest creating a restore point on your system before installing.

I prefer to make an image, which I did

Greetz, Red.

System Restore doesn’t provide 100% restoration it only covers certain files and areas. Disk Imaging makes an exact copy of the Disk or Partition, etc. for me it really is the only solution when you want a robust Backup and Recovery strategy.

I’m sure you don’t create an image before every program update. I know I don’t and on occasion,
the system restore point has come in handy. Not perfect but handy.

ehmen · 2015-07-29T23:47:19.000Z

bob3160 post:9926:

I’m sure you don’t create an image before every program update.

As it takes many hours to complete, especially if you have more than 50-75GB on your hard drive.

system · 2015-07-30T01:58:44.000Z

NoScript Security Suite 2.6.9.33

https://noscript.net/changelog

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/noscript/?src=cb-dl-users

mchain · 2015-07-30T07:17:51.000Z

ehmen post:9927:

bob3160 post:9926:

I’m sure you don’t create an image before every program update.

As it takes many hours to complete, especially if you have more than 50-75GB on your hard drive.

Not necessarily true.

Depends on system hardware: SSD 120 GB (SATA III) to 500 WD Desktop (SATA III), both running as SATA II, a full disk image will take only 12-14 minutes to complete. Amount of data in image: 15.7 GB, normal compression. With the old WD 80 GB SATA II operating system drive, took a little longer: 15-17 minutes.

WD 80 GB drive compressed to 23-27 GB with about 37-40 GB data. SSD 120 GB drive compressed to 15.7 GB with about 27 GB data.

Incremental backups of operating system drive will take as little as 2-3 minutes.

Even Windows 98SE using Norton Ghost full disk imaging on late 90’s system with maxed 128 MB RAM never took that long, 12 minutes tops.

But then, we’re talking only 2-3 GB data, including Windows.

mchain · 2015-07-30T07:20:11.000Z

SpywareBlaster update:

16 new definitions for IE.
http://www.brightfort.com/spywareblaster.html

DavidR · 2015-07-30T14:59:02.000Z

bob3160 post:9926:

DavidR post:9925:

Rednose post:9924:

ehmen post:9923:

But just to be on the safe side, I’d suggest creating a restore point on your system before installing.

I prefer to make an image, which I did

Greetz, Red.

System Restore doesn’t provide 100% restoration it only covers certain files and areas. Disk Imaging makes an exact copy of the Disk or Partition, etc. for me it really is the only solution when you want a robust Backup and Recovery strategy.

I’m sure you don’t create an image before every program update. I know I don’t and on occasion,
the system restore point has come in handy. Not perfect but handy.

I do for some; my usual practice is a weekly image backup and daily data backups (sometimes 2-3 times) for more volatile data, documents, spreadsheets, emails, bookmarks, etc.

DavidR · 2015-07-30T15:01:42.000Z

ehmen post:9927:

bob3160 post:9926:

I’m sure you don’t create an image before every program update.

As it takes many hours to complete, especially if you have more than 50-75GB on your hard drive.

Wrong in my case, I keep a very clean ship, no junk, programs that aren’t used very often get uninstalled. My image backup takes minutes not hours. More crucially restoring an image backup takes in the region of 20 minutes for two partitions.

system · 2015-07-30T22:24:37.000Z

ehmen post:9927:

bob3160 post:9926:

I’m sure you don’t create an image before every program update.

As it takes many hours to complete, especially if you have more than 50-75GB on your hard drive.

My system images are of 320 GB and take about 45 minutes using AOMEI Backupper. System Restore is turned off and will stay that way.

system · 2015-07-31T10:44:04.000Z

Belarc Advisor v. 8.5

http://www.belarc.com/

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html#faq

Rednose · 2015-07-31T14:52:34.000Z

bob3160 post:9926:

I’m sure you don’t create an image before every program update.

No, but with the first v33.6.2015.16 update ( and also previous badly tested updates ) in mind, I don’t take any chances with WinPatrol updates anymore.