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S Womack Friday, 24 July 2020 12:16

Clone app 7z compressions

the 7z compression didnt work until I added quotes. it was %ProgramW6432%\7-Zip\7z.exe a "K:\downloads\July 2020\CloneApp\Backup.7z" "K:\downloads\July 2020\CloneApp\Backup" tried in cmd prompt and got error 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I added quotes so it looks like "%ProgramW6432%\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "K:\downloads\July 2020\CloneApp\Backup.7z" "K:\downloads\July 2020\CloneApp\Backup" --- Notice quotes around the exe line.
Hopefully this helps someone else. Is a good program but haven't used the restore yet.

Gregory S Friday, 24 July 2020 02:45

Mr

I have downloaded and ran Bloatbox and it shows I have 92 apps including system ones. How do I know which are unnecessary apps or bloatware and will not effect the operation of other apps and windows 10 itself if I remove them?

Kurt Thursday, 02 July 2020 15:40

Help! Why does Spydish seemingly not work?

Hello,

I installed Spydish on my Windows 10 laptop and changed several additional policies, amongst others blocking the new Microsoft Edge and disabling forced Windows updates as well as blocking major Windows updates. Afterwards I clicked on "Apply selected" and the changes are to be seen. Therefore I assumed that these changes will apply.

When I closed Spydish and opened it again it did not show the changes I made before. Clicking on "Analyze" shows that all the policies I applied earlier are not configured.

How can I actually apply these changes? I really need your help urgently!

Kind regards,
Kurt

Belim
Hi Kurt,
I expect it's a company laptop, so you are driving global settings which prevents any customizations. Otherwise it could also be account ownership status and permissions issues.
I can assure you, that Spydish works as expected.

You can also post your problem here https://github.com/builtbybel/spydish/issues/new
So maybe the community can help too

Stuart Cliffe Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:16 | Wales, UK

Spydish ran away...

Hi. Installed Spydish yesterday and ran the Analyze and Apply options, then noticed the 'remove bloatware' wasn't checked. Ran that today hoping there would be a 'do you really want to do this?' option so I could see what the app regards as bloat. (Feature suggestion there!) However the 'remove' option ran, I had a brief view of boxes being ticked, and the app disappeared - crashed or just closed. When I tried to run it again I got a 'you don't have permission' error and even the shortcut disappeared! I have no idea what happened, but if anyone can suggest what to do next I'd be grateful!!

Phil Forster Monday, 15 June 2020 23:20

How do i run Spydish ?

I have downloaded spydish from github but im at a loss as to how to run it, there is no executable apparently it seems I have to compile it but theres no instructions as to how to do that - please help

Belim
No, no it is already compiled and fully portable.

Try with these direct links
x64
https://github.com/mirinsoft/spydish/releases/download/0.12.3/spydish_x64.zip
x86
https://github.com/mirinsoft/spydish/releases/download/0.12.3/spydish_x86.zip

Or goto the releases page on GitHub
https://github.com/mirinsoft/spydish/releases/download/0.12.3/spydish_x86.zip

Ray McLean Monday, 08 June 2020 00:47 | Airdrie, Alberta, Canada

Mr.

Great program! I really mean that, but I have a suggestion though:
Could you include the “Alarms & Clock” app from the Windows 10 bloat-ware—I use this all the time (pun). I have at least 40 entries, most are triggered daily. I have just finished another clean install of Windows and all the entries are a real pain to rebuild. It usually takes me a week of the wrong alarm triggers to fix my input errors. I have had it (Alarms & Clock) fail 3 or 4 times and my quarterly clean install takes me quite a while, I’m thankful for the time saved with the CloneApp operation.
Many thanks & remember to wear the mask.

Belim
CloneApp is not able to backup UWP/Modern apps such as Alarms&Clock

But CloneApp UA (for Universal Apps) can do this

http://www.mirinsoft.com/ms-apps/cloneapp-ua

Paul Wednesday, 20 May 2020 01:46 | SC

Love the app. Few suggestions

Hey there! Thanks for your efforts. This app is much needed.
I recently used SharpApp after getting a new laptop with Windows 10 in S mode. Of course I immediately changed that to Windows 10 Home after upgrading the RAM and hard drive. But doing that required a clean install. I was lucky to find SharpApp to help streamline my machine after re-installing the OS.
One suggestion I have is to use Open-Shell instead of Classic Shell, which is no longer supported.
https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
Another suggestion has to do with what / how stuff gets disabled. For instance I recently joined the Windows Insider program to get access to "Beta" releases. Sometimes I like to provide feedback to the developers and they ask for my Diagnostic data, which is set to Basic (and the Full is greyed out). How do I change that back? Is that a registry entry?
Anyway thanks again for the great work.
Now I'm off to try and figure out how to dual-boot or at least boot from USB on UEFI...

Belim
Hi Paul,

many thanks for the nice words.
If you are using one of the newer versions (above 0.35) you can "View code" individually of every policy/script.
This behavior is caused by the policy "Disable Telemetry". Just press in the upper right corner "View code" of this script and change the "AllowTelemetry" value from "0" to "3" and apply the policy/script again
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\DataCollecti on" -Name "AllowTelemetry" -Type DWord -Value 3 -Force

Alternatively you can reverse the change in the registry HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\DataCollection by setting "AllowTelemetry" to value "3"

In the description of this the Policy "Disable Telemetry" I point out this behaviour. You can read the following note
"Diagnostic Data must be set to Full to get preview builds from Windows-Insider-Program! Just set the value of the AllowTelemetry key to "3" to revert the policy changes. All other changes remain unaffected."

If you have other questions and feedback you can reach me anytime on GitHub. Just open an Issue here
https://github.com/mirinsoft/sharpapp/issues

Stay healthy Paul
.. and regards from Germany

vvvEasy Thursday, 07 May 2020 17:04

Congratulations for CloneApp and suggestion of a n

First of all, thank you very much for your work and continuous improvement and for the friendly philosophy with which you work.
So I dare ask for an easy but powerful new feature for CloneApp: Evacuate.
Evacuate would be the same as BackUp but deleting the copied items (registry and files).
This would be a feature with many advantages:
+ In front of the traditional "uninstaller" programs, it allows you to recover the installation.
+ It also allows delete installations of the "false portable" programs: They do not use an installer (so they cannot be uninstalled) but they write to the registry and to% LOCALAPPDATA%
+ I don't know of any other program that has this possibility.
+ I think you can take advantage of practically all the BackUp code for this feature.

I hope you like the suggestion.

Vindi Tuesday, 05 May 2020 02:03

Love it.

I love the program, just a quick question though, I've utilised it removing all telemetry and bloatware etc. but I am having a hard time figuring what part of this disables the ability to use NVIDIA control panel. I imagine it has to do with the services maybe? Any clue on how to resolve this issue?

Ravikumar Thursday, 23 April 2020 08:06 | Chennai, India

Unable to donate using my credit card

I want to donate USD 20. But unable to do so. When I select using credit card, the option automatically drags PayPal. Please help me to donate using my credit card.

Belim
Thank you for your kindness and generosity. Unfortunately i have no influence on the PayPal site. Please try again with another Browser and empty your cache.