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    Exclamation Registry Values pop-ups

    At every boot-up a dozen pop-ups appear stating registry changes that have been allowed by TeaTimer. How can I stop them from popping up?
    It is irritating. I'm new to SpyBot and like it immensely.

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    Hello,

    This is a little bug in version 1.4: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/2005-06-22.html
    We have already been able to locate and fix it. The fix will be downloadable with our next program upgrade. We hope that it will be available soon.

    You can find workarounds for example in the forum on the following pages:
    http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.p...75&postcount=9
    http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=122


    For more information please have a look here:
    http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=44
    And you'll find a little workaround here:
    http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=122

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    Digchimo:

    The symptoms that you are you are describing may be because TeaTimer's snapshot files are out of sync with the registry. TeaTimer takes snapshots of Registry entries and compares these with the Registry at startup. Until these snapshots are updated you may 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.

    I believe that the reason that snapshot files get out of sync with the registry is because 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 and therefore they are out of sync with the registry if changes have been made to the registry.

    The solution to the problem is to refresh TeaTimer's snapshot files after making changes to the registry such as changing your home page, System Startup, etc. There are two ways to do this:
    1. 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.
    2. Manually exit TeaTimer immediately prior to system shutdown or restart.

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