Resident Popups on Startup comfirming 'allowed registry change'

[olabajing]

Hi,

Every time my computer boots up, eight popups come up from Resident telling me of an 'allowed registry change'. All of these are changes I have made myself to change windows, and are all good, and Resident has no problem with it. But I would rather it only told me of changes I haven't already allowed on startup. When I right click on the tray icon and select 'settings', and then on the 'Allowed registry changes' tab, delete all of the entries, then on startup it just gives me the standard teatimer entry saying that I haven't allowed them. (because I have jsut canceled allowing them.

This is not a great issue, but causes mild inconvenience. There is almost certainly a very simple solution I haven't found, so if someone could help me I would be thrilled.

Thanks

David Halstead

[md usa spybot fan]

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.

This is speculation, but I believe this behavior is because of the following:
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.