Guest bobster Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 I recently discovered that my daily scanreg was not occurring. When I opened in MSDOS mode and did a scanreg /restore I found that the five backups were several weeks old. I made a registry change by adding /autorun after scanreg.exe and moving the scanreg.exe file to C:\Windows and got it to work again but now I have two new problems: (1) Every time I re-boot, scanreg runs so that if I re-boot 5 or more times in one 24 hour period, I have 5 identical files. Previously scanreg only ran the first boot of each day. The also are all identified as not having been started where as in the past, the older ones were sometimes labeled as having "started". (2) Every time I boot, during the boot sequence, a black box MSDOS window appears showing that scanreg and scanregW have been initiated. This box NEVER appeared before I made the changes above. While scanreg is now working, I have somehow screwed up the sequence so that the above problems have occurred. My questions: Where should the scanreg.exe file reside. Is /autorun after the scanreg entry in the registry appropriate/necessary. It wasn't there before. How do I suppress the MSDOS scanreg box from displaying during boot How can I get back to a single scanreg action at initial daily boot and not every time I boot.
Guest Bill Blanton Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 Re: scanreg What part of the registry are you refering to? You want scanregw to /autorun, not scanreg. In the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key, put the value: C:\WINDOWS\scanregw.exe /autorun Name it whatever, the default value name is "ScanRegistry" "bobster" <fauxie@bogus.net> wrote in message news:e8Bn%23GJiIHA.4468@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >I recently discovered that my daily scanreg was not occurring. When I > opened in MSDOS mode and did a scanreg /restore I found that the five > backups were several weeks old. I made a registry change by adding /autorun > after scanreg.exe and moving the scanreg.exe file to C:\Windows and got it > to work again but now I have two new problems: > > (1) Every time I re-boot, scanreg runs so that if I re-boot 5 or more times > in one 24 hour period, I have 5 identical files. Previously scanreg only > ran the first boot of each day. The also are all identified as not having > been started where as in the past, the older ones were sometimes labeled as > having "started". > > (2) Every time I boot, during the boot sequence, a black box MSDOS window > appears showing that scanreg and scanregW have been initiated. This box > NEVER appeared before I made the changes above. > > While scanreg is now working, I have somehow screwed up the sequence so that > the above problems have occurred. > > My questions: > > Where should the scanreg.exe file reside. > > Is /autorun after the scanreg entry in the registry appropriate/necessary. > It wasn't there before. > > How do I suppress the MSDOS scanreg box from displaying during boot > > How can I get back to a single scanreg action at initial daily boot and not > every time I boot. > > >
Guest bobster Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 Re: scanreg Thanks Problem solved. I apparently dropped the "W" after scanreg in the string C:\WINDOWS\scanregw.exe /autorun. After restoring it, the MSDOS box no longer appears when re-booting. =============================================== "Bill Blanton" <bblanton@REMOVEmagicnet.net> wrote in message news:eMX$GfJiIHA.4140@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... What part of the registry are you refering to? You want scanregw to /autorun, not scanreg. In the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key, put the value: C:\WINDOWS\scanregw.exe /autorun Name it whatever, the default value name is "ScanRegistry" "bobster" <fauxie@bogus.net> wrote in message news:e8Bn%23GJiIHA.4468@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >I recently discovered that my daily scanreg was not occurring. When I > opened in MSDOS mode and did a scanreg /restore I found that the five > backups were several weeks old. I made a registry change by adding /autorun > after scanreg.exe and moving the scanreg.exe file to C:\Windows and got it > to work again but now I have two new problems: > > (1) Every time I re-boot, scanreg runs so that if I re-boot 5 or more times > in one 24 hour period, I have 5 identical files. Previously scanreg only > ran the first boot of each day. The also are all identified as not having > been started where as in the past, the older ones were sometimes labeled as > having "started". > > (2) Every time I boot, during the boot sequence, a black box MSDOS window > appears showing that scanreg and scanregW have been initiated. This box > NEVER appeared before I made the changes above. > > While scanreg is now working, I have somehow screwed up the sequence so that > the above problems have occurred. > > My questions: > > Where should the scanreg.exe file reside. > > Is /autorun after the scanreg entry in the registry appropriate/necessary. > It wasn't there before. > > How do I suppress the MSDOS scanreg box from displaying during boot > > How can I get back to a single scanreg action at initial daily boot and not > every time I boot. > > >
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