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    Changes lost after Restart

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by LFDM, Dec 10, 2009.

  1. LFDM

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    Apologies, if the problem has already been talked about or is just incredibly easy to solve - will delete thread in case of error immediately.

    Following problem on Win7 HP 64 Bit: Several system changes just get lost when I restart the system.
    Examples: Allowing a program to turn itself on on start-up. After restart, i am asked again by the system, if i really want that. - Changes in the Synaptics Driver 14.0.3C (faster mouse movement), after restart as slow as before.

    Am I doing something wrong? I am confused...
     
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    Need a bump, still no solution...
     
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    Did you change it with admin privileges?
     
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    Yes, I am administrator... It's truly weird!
    Thanks for the answer anyway ;)
     
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    You gotta be more specific man. This could literally be anything. For example, a gopher could be changing them while you are asleep.
     
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    It's actually tough to be more specific. Problem occurs on a fresh OS, just unboxed Acer 1810t. I didn't do anything beside installing that Synaptics driver, when I first encoutered that problem. Thus the things I installed after that seem to be irrelevant, that includes a connection to the internet, I was never online before the erroneous behaviour. (don't think the driver is the reason - seems to be strictly a Win 7 problem)

    I hoped that this would be a common problem - as it happened literally out of the box. Or that I made a glaring mistake, something wrong in the control panel etc...

    Hard to give more info, as there is next to nothing, just that a restart of the system erases any changes I made to the system. Ah, this doesn't occur on not OS related programs, e.g. I can change options in a third party audio player and they work properly even after a restart.
    Driver and OS related stuff are null and void after restart, or signing of my account, user change etc.
     
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    You said the pointer moves faster? Is the slider bar moving form notch 4 to 5 or from the middle to further right? Or does the slider never move?

    Programs that start on their own. You place them in the start folder? Task scheduler? Or do you set the settings inside the program itself.
     
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    Default setting for mouse movement in control panel is 5. I change it to 8. Restart the system. It's back to 5 (fantasy values, but you get the idea)


    EDIT: Nevermind about the program. My mistake. I thought it's enough to change settings in the windows firewall. I have to make changes in the User Account Control of course. That's solved now.
    The problem about cursor movement remains though - and it's very annoying, because everytime i start up the laptop the touchpad is so damn slow for my likings......
     
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    My old synaptics driver use to do the same thing. It was Logitech's setpoint resetting it. The solution was just manually launching setpoint only when the bluetooth mouse was attached, otherwise, don't let it autolaunch.
     
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    Very useful hint, thanks alot.
    Played around with msconfig settings and it looks like I have the driver functioning fully and setpoint autolaunching as well.

    Setpoint tries to autolaunch two exe files, one is setpoint.exe, the other KHALMNPR.exe.
    If you deactive KHALMNPR.exe, the synaptics driver runs without any troubles.
    Weird: the KHALMNPR process is running, as can be seen in the task manager, anyway right on from startup.

    Conclusion: autolaunching KHALMNPR doesn't seem to add anything besides problems with synaptics drivers.

    Thanks for the help again, very appreciated!
     
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    Sure thing.

    I never could figure out how to get setpoint and the synaptics touchpad to play nice together at startup.
     
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    OK anyways, I have Setpoint and synaptix too, and I had that pointer issue before. Forgot how I fixed it, but in the end here's what I have running at startup:

    MSE (anti-virus)
    Synaptics
    SetPoint launcher

    KHAL... runs at startup whenever a new mouse is installed, however I normally remove it from startup and no harm.
     
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