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

[chris hallsworth]

Hi all.
I'm glad there is a program out there similar to Second Chance. Now, I 
downloaded it but haven't installed it yet. It appears to be shareware. 
What are the limitations in the unregistered version?
Many thanks.


 From Chris H in Derbyshire

On 05/09/2010 4:58, Steve Pattison wrote:
> 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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