“ Save all changes” should not remain selected

[Robin A.]

If the option “Save all changes” is selected in a particular session, it remains selected. If in the next RVS session the system is rebooted without changing it, all changes are saved.

This is obviously undesirable and dangerous. The option should only be in effect once, and should revert to the “Drop all changes” default the next time RVS is opened.

[Coldmoon]

Hi Robin A.,
Thank you for the feedback. It may not be possible at this stage to change it in 3.0, but have asked for a review of this for 3.1. Stronger text will be added to the user's manual regarding the nature of the option.

Mike

[Wilderness]

I was going to answer this in my post about the same thing, so I'll tell you the return email I received from returnil...

Thank you for your interest in Returnil Virtual System and your kind words. While you make a good point about security, you must also take into account user experience and intentions. Save all changes is an advanced setting as a convenience for expert users to commit changes in specific situations to the real disk faster than having to turn the virtualization off and restart the computer to release the virtualization. These situations may need to persist across a restart.

This setting is purposely buried as it is not intended to be used with any real frequency and only in very controlled situations.

But I really do wish it would revert back, I think it should! Because someone who uses it usually only wants to use it once, usually after an update or installing a program. All it would take is to forget to set it back once and system could be compromised.