Installed CFP 3.0.14.276 yesterday; running OK and apps. quicker to open than with OA.
Didn’t change v. much: started with Clean PC and learning in Defense+; after most of the learning seemed to be done, changed to Learning with Safe Mode (apologies if the terms aren’t correct, but I can’t get at CFP!)>
One uncommon app. - Quicken - CFP didn’t know about (it’s several years old) came up so I selected it as a single. app., ticked Remember and OK.
From then on some things that had been OK wouldn’t open, then got to the pont where I couldn’t even shut down - didn’t have permission!
Tried Last Known Good - er, no good.
Tried Safe Mode - same.
Booted fron a Linux Live CD - couldn’t change anything on the Windows drives.
Now I’m on another HD, changed the names of all the Comodo folders that I could see, moved them to another partition (couldn’t find a way to do anything to Services or Reg.).
Tried again with the ‘CFP’ HDD - same problem, no permission to do anything.
Please, is there any way out of this? I can’t uninstall CPF from the secondary HDD and can’t run that HDD as primary.
Well, managed to get in to Safe Mode, remove CFP and as many Reg entries as I could find.
Now reboots and I can do things BUT it’s in a form of Safe Mode - lots of things loaded but some not - and I can’t get back in to the choices of modes when I reboot.
I had the same experience today, and it actually fried my system to the point that System Restore could not function. I had to restore the registry manually from the command line.
I was able to repeat the process a couple of times (for the sake of investigation) by telling Defense+ to treat an application as an “isolated instance” or as “part of the system”.
For the record, there was only one file which actually needed to be restored, which was “C:\windows\system32\config\system”. If you (or any one) needs to know how to restore this from the command line, I’d be happy to explain.
I was thinking of filing a bug report on this, but I am not really sure of the best way to explain/document it.
Well done! I did it the clumsy way: Safe Mode, uninstall, struggle to get out of some form of semisafemode thing, install OA. Then cloned the HD again!
Please, simple instructions for Command Line repair would be useful - better than all the faf I’ve just had!
It seemed reasonable to say that Quicken was ‘an “isolated instance” or as “part of the system”.’ and, for a time, there was no problem. It was when I tried to start a vital app. (Solitaire) that I found out that I couldn’t do anything.
The way I fixed it was kind of clumsy as well, but it allowed the computer to function without uninstalling. I actually wished I would’ve known Comodo was the cause (it took me forever to figure that out :-P).
I actually don’t know how Comodo is without Defense+, I just recently started using it after receiving a recommendation somewhere online. I like it, and would like to keep using it, but we’ll see if this gets resolved.
In short, you need to copy _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SYSTEM in the snapshot folder of a restore point to C:\windows\system32\config\system
Here are the steps I took to restore the computer. The first 7 are just to find out the name of the files we are working with. (All commands are in braces [])
Insert Windows XP install CD
At the screen where you chose to install or use a recovery console, press ‘R’ to use the console.
Type [cd C:"System Volume Information"] to go to the system restore directory
There type [dir] and it should have a file with a really long name in the form of “_restore{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}” or something.
Switch to this directory using [cd _restore{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}]
Type [dir] to list all of the available restore points, they will be in the form of “RPXXX”. Look for one with a date before the problem began.
Switch to that snapshot directory of that restore point with [cd RPXXX\snapshot]
Now we have the file we are going to restore from, so lets make a backup of the one we are restoring to.
To rename your config/system file in case we need it back, type [ren C:\windows\system32\config\system C:\windows\system32\config\system.bak]
Now let’s restore the back up with [copy _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SYSTEM C:\windows\system32\config\system]
Type [exit] to reboot, and don’t be worried if you keyboard and mouse don’t work at first, it took about 2 minutes before it finished reinstalling drivers for mine.
Kind of a pain in the A**, but a really good technique to know none-the-less. You could hypothetically do this in one line if you just knew all the files you had to work with so it may not be a bad idea to write down those ridiculously long folder names
Thank you! I’m useless with c/l stuff and would never have figured out how to do this.
Not sure that my XP CD will function in this way - it’s a bit peculiar at times
and as many Reg entries as I could find.