Every time I boot up to the desktop while TeaTimer is loading, a list of the registry changes that I allowed keeps coming up on the bottom right side of the taskbar for a few seconds then goes away. (I disabled a few things in the start-up in Spybot). The log list is growing longer on every boot-up and adds this same info of the change that I already allowed. Since I've already okay'd the change, why in the heck does it have to keep telling me this on every boot-up? How can I stop it from making the log list a mile long? Is there a way to stop this notification from appearing everytime I boot up (4 entries appear at once for about 5 seconds or so)? Do I need to go to "SETTINGS" to make these changes? Any help would be appreciated.
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Allowed Registry change being displayed on every boot up
- Thread starter Mr. S
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Spybot Advisor Team [Retired]
Mr. S:
Try refreshing TeaTimer's snapshots files.
TeaTimer takes snapshots of Registry entries and compares these with the Registry at startup. Until these snapshots are updated you are likely to get pop-ups (at startup) of changes you made in the past. In other words, TeaTimer attempts to return the Registry to the state it was in when the snapshots were taken. This happens primarily when you reboot the system. To refresh TeaTimer's snapshot files:
Try refreshing TeaTimer's snapshots files.
TeaTimer takes snapshots of Registry entries and compares these with the Registry at startup. Until these snapshots are updated you are likely to get pop-ups (at startup) of changes you made in the past. In other words, TeaTimer attempts to return the Registry to the state it was in when the snapshots were taken. This happens primarily when you reboot the system. To refresh TeaTimer's snapshot files:
- Right click Spybot's TeaTimer System Tray Icon > click Exit Spybot-S&D Resident.
- TeaTimer closes.
- TeaTimer's snapshot files are refreshed at this time.
- Restart TeaTimer:
- Using Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy.
- Double click TeaTimer.exe to start it.
- It appears that when TeaTimer starts the snapshot files are read into memory and maintained there. The snapshot files only appear to be rewritten when TeaTimer closes. During system shutdown (or restart) it appears that TeaTimer is terminated before it has a chance to rewrite the snapshot files.