jv16 PowerTools 2011 Beta1

leonardo

XP-SP3 and W7 x86 with 2011-beta1 2.0.0.988:

These two issues reported for build 986 are not (yet) fixed in build 988.

http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=4283#p26602 System Cleaner application error

http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=4282#p26597 File recovery can be done only once

Especially the 'System Cleaner' issue can cripple your system, depending when in time the freeze occurs.

Today I partially crippled my W7 x86 notebook because apparently the application freeze occured after the changes were made but before the backup was effectively taken. I had to recover from a previous restore point!

jv16

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siliconman01

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piaqt

Start menu tool

Here is a truncated debug log

xf2_CreateForm Done, Form=109 "Start Menu Tool results window"

...

Self.Free

After all that time, during which my pc was idle, it still hadn't gotten beyond "this may take a few minutes". I aborted.

Why so slow? (Win 7 x64)

leonardo

W7 x86 with 2011-Beta1 2.0.0.988:

Registry Cleaner reports two SafetyNet errors, see screenshot.

RegistryCleaner_Safetynet Errors.jpg

blenheim

While runing file Cleaner the screen become unstable flashing constatly, the results could not be deleted and after cancelling the program required restarting.

The Dubug report attached

siliconman01

Blenheim wrote
While runing file Cleaner the screen become unstable flashing constatly, the results could not be deleted and after cancelling the program required restarting.

The Dubug report can't be attached it says extension html or txt is not allowed?

You need to ZIP the Debug log and then attach the zipped file.

Just right click on the Debug log and select Send to>Compress(zipped) folder to zip the Debug log.

siliconman01

piaqt wrote
Start menu tool

Here is a truncated debug log

xf2_CreateForm Done, Form=109 "Start Menu Tool results window"

...

Self.Free

After all that time, during which my pc was idle, it still hadn't gotten beyond "this may take a few minutes". I aborted.

Why so slow? (Win 7 x64)

It's slow because DEBUG is turned on by default. Hopefully Jouni will turn off Debug on the next Beta release. It takes ~90 seconds on my Win 7 x64 to build all its startup info on my system

siliconman01

Question ?

Is it possible in Phase2 of the Registry Compactor to unlock all the registry compact backup files so that it does not take another reboot to release some of the registry compact files so that they can be deleted? I understand that it is Windows that is instituting the lock.

jv16

siliconman01 wrote

Is it possible in Phase2 of the Registry Compactor to unlock all the registry compact backup files so that it does not take another reboot to release some of the registry compact files so that they can be deleted? I understand that it is Windows that is instituting the lock.

As far as I know, it's not possible to do this. It's Windows that locks these files, there is nothing we can do about it.

jv16

tullik wrote
Version 2.0.0.988 on x64 Windows 7

It appears there is little consistency in the content of ...\Cache\FileCache.dat.

I ran the install to an empty folder and the generated FileCache.dat had a size of 100 KB.

A few minutes later, I ran the install again to a different empty folder. That time, the generated FileCache.dat had a size of 384 KB.

The creation of the FileCache is time limited on directory basis. In other words, the cache creator can analyze any given directory only a certain time, after which it quits and moves on the the next directory. This ensures that it will not take forever to create the FileCache even if you have 1 TB of files in you hard drives.

The effect sounds like it was caused by Windows caching. The first time the FileCache was created, the creation was aborted due to the time limits. But on the second time, the cache creation went further because Windows, in turn, had cached the file system queries and was able to give the data to the FileCache creator faster.

tullik wrote

Question: Is FileCache.dat used for anything besides attempting fix of invalid file references in registry entries?

It is used mainly by the registry error fixing engine, but it is also used for example when attempting to fix broken shortcuts with the Start Menu Tool.

tullik

Thank you. Such explanations help me understand how to use the tools more effectively. 8)

jv16

tullik wrote
Version 2.0.0.988 on x64 Windows 7

Backup Tool-->Custom Restore-->right click Explore original path does not work correctly. For example:

This issue should now be fixed, thank you for reporting!

jv16

tullik wrote
Version 2.0.0.988 on x64 Windows 7

Backup Tool, a design limitation:

When a backup contains both registry items and file system items, the backup shows on both the Registry Backups and File Backups tabs.

Deleting one also deletes the other.

This is not much of an issue for History Cleaner backups.

It could conceivably be an issue for Software Uninstaller backups. Perhaps a warning message is warranted for this case?

What should the warning message say?

tullik

jv16 wrote
... What should the warning message say?

It would be more of a dialog than a message:

"At least one selected backup contains both files and registry items. Click OK to delete both. Click Cancel and use Custom Restore to delete individual items."

There could also be a "Don't show again" check box in the pop-up for users that don't want to see the warning.

jv16

siliconman01 wrote
I recommend that the files shown as Errors in the picture below be eliminated within the History Cleaner and Clean & Fix Computer. These are always undeletable, even in SAFE MODE because Windows is using them all the time.

I agree, this improvement has now been made. Thank you for reporting!

jv16

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jv16

tullik wrote

The Age and Comment systems come to mind ...

Although the tag system, as it improves, may be a better alternative for the Comment system.

The idea is to implement the Age and Comment system with the Tag System.

jv16

tullik wrote
jv16 wrote... It's not very intuitive, I'm afraid. It works by double clicking the line's Tag area, i.e. the area of the line under the Tags column.

When it is blank, only the leftmost 1 to 1.5 cm. of the tag field are sensitive to that double clicking. That's OK, once one knows about it.

Problem confirmed, Hukka is working on a fix.

siliconman01

Windows 7 x64 Professional

In examining the DEBUG log from running the Startup Manager, there are a lot of red ABORT errors present. I checked the existence of the several of the driver files that are associated with these ABORT messages and the files are present and in the proper folders. Why then these ABORT codes during the gathering of info for the Startup Manager?

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