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cmpm:
and their are many fixes out there in computer wonderland that cause more problems then they fix.
Crazy computer stuff.......

dlazarus:
generally it does not function when i need it most, very unreliable for me.
I don't have a burner to make backup cd's. What choises do i have?
-F.A. (March 13, 2008, 02:29 PM)
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Same situation here.  I'm one of the many for whom system restore is just unreliable.

I recently bought RollBack Rx from here: http://www.horizondatasys.com/169614.ihtml

RollBack Rx Does the job for me.  In one of those serendipitous moments, the day after installing RollBack
I did something really stupid so I had a hands-on test of it.  Repairing the damage from my mistake was
as simple as telling RollBack to, well..., roll back.  Saved me hours of frustration and paid for itself right there.

You need to know that RollBack only handles the root drive.  (It's supposed to be okay on multi-boot systems,
too but I have no first-hand experience of that.)  So, if you have more than one physical drive in your machine
it'll only handle the one from which you boot (though it will cover different partitions on that same drive). 
This works well for me as I have separate backups of other drives which are easy enough to restore and I
really want something to rollback items such as registry changes and unfortunate driver installations.  That being
so, covering changes that occur on C: (in my case) does the job nicely.

The company has other products that might suit you better, FirstDefense-ISR Workstation (discussed at length
here) and FirstDefense-ISR Rescue edition.

 


-cranioscopical (March 13, 2008, 04:14 PM)
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Beware of Rollback. TWICE it completely trashed my system.ShadowUser is MUCH better. Never had a problem with it.

J-Mac:
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Beware of Rollback. TWICE it completely trashed my system.ShadowUser is MUCH better. Never had a problem with it.
-dlazarus (March 26, 2008, 08:51 AM)
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I don't know about ShadowUser as a System Restore replacement, but I might take a good long look at ShadowProtect Desktop 3.1.  PC Magazine recently gave it their Editor's Choice rating, knocking Acronis True Image Home 11 out of its previous spot.  The reviewer, Ed Mendelson, found some fairly serious bugs in Acronis that put him off, but he raved about ShadowProtect Desktop. Though it doesn't have the vast feature set that Acronis does, he feels that for just plain old drive imaging it does a much better job.

Worth a look.  If you create an image daily you will effectively have the same thing that a working System Restore gives you.

Jim

Edit:  I added a link to the ShadowProtect Desktop web page.

masu:
The best and most reliable I've found is Acronis True Image.  For a similar application that is free, you could try DriveImage XML, but that is much slower and less versatile than Acronis. Besides, Acronis can be had pretty inexpensively.  Shop around and make sure to check both Newegg.com and Amazon.com.

Jim
-J-Mac (March 14, 2008, 02:24 AM)
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Acronis would be also my suggestion  :Thmbsup:

tymrwt33:
Shadow Protect ought to be good, it is twice the price of Acronis, or three times if yuo use version upgrades.

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