[gui-talk] Second chance was Re: Computer museum?

[Steve Pattison]

Hi Chris,

I don't know if you've heard of this yet but there is a program that
will do exactly what Second Chance did and it works with Windows 7.  The
program is Rollback Rx available from www.rollbacksoftware.com.  I use
Rollback Rx and it has saved me from computer disasters on several
occasions.  It works fairly well with Window-Eyes but you do have to use
your screen reader's mouse emulation keys in parts of the program.  I
hope this helps.

Regards Steve.
	
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:04:07 +0100
chris hallsworth christopherh40 at googlemail.comwrote:

what was your favourite operating system in the history of computing? 
Also what about software? My favourite operating system in the history 
of computing is probably Windows 95 and I was using JAWS as my screen 
reader. My favourite software was a product by PowerQuest called Second 
Chance. (I wonder if anyone remembers having that preinstalled on their 
old machines?) I certainly did and it was brilliant! The program is 
basically System Restore but for data as well as system. What Second 
Chance did was created "checkpoints" at regular intervals. You can then 
restore individual files and folders, or even an entire system, to that 
particular checkpoint. Checkpoint 1 was always the "initial" checkpoint 
either after Second Chance was first installed or you have enabled a 
drive to be monitored after it being disabled. One problem Second Chance 
did do was corrupt the JAWS authorization keys that were used way back 
then. You know, the ones that consisted of a special floppy disk? This 
is because, as I soon found out, a hidden/system file jfw.cps was backed 
up by Second Chance each time JAWS modified it. So of course when you 
restored an entire system to an earlier checkpoint you lost 
authorization in the process. But apart from that it was brilliant! How 
I wish they'd brought it back to make it work for Windows 7!

Regards Steve
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