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eruNT lives again, on Win7/Vista -- without 'Scheduled Task'
This isn't a request for help, but just thanks for all the good advice I've received here.
This (widely acclaimed) Windows Registry backup utility restores the security feature Microsoft discontinued with Windows 98SE and Windows ME: the ability to retain full daily automatic backups of a user-determined number of registries, as the first (and it should not be the only) line of defense in recovering a 'hosed' system, from registry corruption.
Starting with Windows Vista, there has been a compatiblity problem, as noted by Lars Hederer, the utility's author:
Unfortunately, there have been no "future versions", so users have devised work-arounds, the best known being creating a scheduled-shortcut to the .exe that runs the daily backup, to prevent it from 'hanging' and failing, when Windows' silent prompt (are you sure you really want to run this .exe file, that you just clicked on?) gets no human response. Many users are reluctant to take the author's advice, to just shut off UAC, although this does fix it.Question: Do ERUNT and NTREGOPT run on Windows 7?
Answer: ERUNT and NTREGOPT in their current versions 1.1j are still compatible with Windows 7, but as in Vista, they will only work correctly if you turn off User Account Control in Windows' Control Panel (move the slider to the lowest position).
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Future versions of ERUNT and NTREGOPT will of course have these issues fixed. Keep an eye on my homepage for updates.
I (hope!) I have found a simpler solution, suitable even for the non-hacker.
Install and run this small (85KB) utility, to put UAC in the 'Quiet Mode' -- as shown in the illustration. You should have a Windows Shortcut for eruNT's autoback.exe in the StartUp directory. First, set MS Windows' UAC slider wherever you wish. Then turn on 'Quiet Mode' in the linked utility. Then exit, and don't look again at the UAC slider, as a Windows-bug makes it show an erroneous indication (carefully read the utility's documentation on this point).
Just make sure that the shortcut to autoback.exe is set to run its target in Administrative mode, and then set the Target-line as:
and this will put your backups into a StartMenu entry, previously prepared by installing a directory where indicated by the above path, with the name of 'Last 4 Registries (RUN erdNT.exe)'. This will remind the user what to do, when the backup directory is opened, as the .exe of that name will appear there.Code:"C:\Program Files\ERUNT\AUTOBACK.EXE" "C:\Users\[your account's username here]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Last 4 Registries (RUN erdNT.exe)"\#Date# /noconfirmdelete /noprogresswindow /days:4
To make sure there were no mistakes, check your Start Menu directory after a few days. You should see the daily backups accumulating there. That's all.
I am purposely using the terms 'hack' and 'hacker' as originally defined. Please do not read 'hacker' as 'cracker'. I think all at this forum need not be told these are two very different things.
P.S.: Thanks to Brink for his help in other ways of doing this, before I discovered the 'silent UAC' utility.
Last edited by RonCam; 15 Aug 2012 at 05:04. Reason: Improved the title.