ah yep! no one is even suggesting that System Restore is a replacement
for Rollback but think of things this way, Windows assume that people
are using the recycle Bin so there's the avenue of retreiving files,
again a question of "horses for courses".
On 10/10/2011 10:48 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
Hello Dane
There is still a lot that you cannot do with System Restore, even under 7. For
instance you can't, as I understand it, restore individual files. And as far as
I know it isn't accessible. I could be wrong there; please somebody correct me
if I am.
But we'll be sticking with RollBack I think as it's a comprehensive solution.
The one problem we have is with disk optimisation. We haven't as yet discovered
how to use it with Diskeeper which we need to upgrade to 2011.
Lynne
On 10 Oct 2011, at 00:15, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Rollback is an excellent utility, I use it here.
I would also point out that Windows System Restore has itself come a long way in Windows
7 and provides much of the functionality of Rollback in that the System Restore can now
"restore" to previous snapshots out of Windows.
Again, I've not tried this and I don't know even whether this function is accessible to those
without vision in the "Boot" sequence as can be done with Rollback, I just know
System Restore is now capable of booting previous Windows sessions so Windows users should take
ful advantage of at least what System restore has to offer, will save them a lot of
pain<smile>.
On 10/10/2011, at 9:07 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
Hello everybody
I know there are those on list who think that Gordon and I are very
anti-Microsoft and anti-Windows. Actually that's not completely true; we
recognise that there are advantages to the OS, just as there are disadvantages
and advantages to Mac OS X.
Anyway, recently our little NetBook fell victim to the old Windows problems and
it crashed; complaining about some sort of hardware change that had apparently
been made by some invisible person.
No; this wasn't a hacker attack. The change never even occurred; I know that
because at the time its network was totally disabled.
Anyway, after a lon time sitting on the shelf in broken mode, I eventually found the time
to sit down with Gordon and look at the machine. We decided to do a little more digging;
and went into the system BIOS, and turned off the Asus "Boot Booster" function.
Then we rebooted the machine.
The difference was startling. Instead of turning on the machine and being in
Windows within about 10 seconds, the machine booted from a truly cold reset
condition. This time, up popped the menu which was missing in Boot Booster
mode, that of RollBAck RX professional.
Once this menu appeared, it allowed me to "Roll Back" the machine to a time
when Windows was fixed, and running well. In a matter of about 5 minutes, our system was
rolled back and running perfectly again.
RollBack RX available from<http://www.horizondatasys.com> (if memory serves)
is one of the best Windows products on the market in the field of disaster recovery.
I would go so far as to say that no machine should be without RollBAck if it
runs Windows. It makes Microsoft's feeble System Restore look pathetic, because
System Restore cannot correct pre-boot problems, as RollBAck can. If your boot
config goes wrong and you only have System Restore for your defence, you could
well be in for a long restore job.
RollBack Pro RX is a product we've used for a very very long time, and we've
recommended to others on this list and I know that at least one person is using
it.
Previously, Gordon tells me he had a product called "GoBAck" by Roxio. But
Symantec bought that and promptly did away with it so that it wouldn't impede their sales
of Norton Utilities.
Long story; but in Windows XP SP2 and later, GoBAck would no longer function
and so that was the end of that idea. But Rollback remains to this day as
valuable a tool as it was 5 years ago when, apparently, Gordon started using it.
Thanks to that software our NetBook was up and running again within about 5
minutes of being booted into the RollBack menu. Rollback does have a GUI which
you can use within Windows as well. That's another nice thing about it. It's
100% accessible. The boot menu is actually quite easy for a blind person as
well; you just hold down the Home key when your system boots. Then, if you want
to restore your system, just cursor down once and press Enter.
A list of restore points comes up; with the latest snapshot at the top of the list. Just
cursor down to the one you want and hit enter and off you go. If you only have one
baseline restore point, it will be marked as "Installation", and is the only
one you cannot delete. But all you have to do to roll back to it is to cursor down once
or twice and then hit enter.
All in all, RollBAck RX Pro is well worth the money. It has saved my other half
countless hours of re-installing over the years he's been using it.
Lynne
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