scanreg

[bobster]

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.

 

[Bill Blanton]

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.
>
>
>

 

[bobster]

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.

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"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.
>
>
>