Assuming you are familiar with building BartPE plugins and have the ShadowProtect recovery ISO/CD, then using it to make a BartPE plugin is...
Personally I prefer to partition the main hard drive in two. Keep the system partition fairly small so it is fast to backup/restore (but leave...
I made a step-by-step guide just for you. Of course you need (1) Macrium Reflect installed, (2) a writable CD, (3) computer with CD-RW drive....
In my experience dos (read floppy) and linux based rescue disks are often smaller in size and may load faster, but generally offer fewer features...
Slightly off-topic, but for anyone who needs a tool to put a WinPE based rescue CD/ISO on a USB flash drive, check out PeToUsb. I mention it...
Maybe you mean StorageCraft's ShadowProtect? Macrium can burn both the linux and WinPE based rescue disk directly to CD, although you need the...
Puran is top notch by all accounts, but whether it's the best depends on what you are looking for. For example, Defrag Express by DiskTrix is...
Auslogics is probably fastest, but I'd go with either Puran or MyDefrag. Puran is pretty fast if you uncheck the gap filling option, plus it has a...
Have a look at Locate32 as well. It's a desktop search engine that is very fast at indexing hard drives and other media. (I'm not familiar with...
Round 2: Differential/Incremental performance from WinPE disk: Acronis: +365,713 KB and 2 min (105 s) StorageCraft: +213,752 KB and 16 min (981...
I've kept my XP up-to-date with the new Service Packs and other updates, so it's not really the same OS that was released 10 years ago. And how...
I ran True Image Home 2010 and ShadowProtect 3.5 off a WinPE USB flash disk to backup my C: partition (45 GB, two-thirds full) on an external hard...
I use Acronis True Image Home 2010 on my main computer and Macrium Reflect 4.2 Free on older computers. (The former requires 1GB or more ram for...
I've used Iobit Advanced SystemCare Pro for about a year now. It's a good overall system maintenance and cleaner utility, but the main reason I...
thanks for the link. i tried to get the plugin to work on my BartPE disk, but without luck. I even installed the program while in bartpe, captured...
Macrium Reflect has worked great for me. For Macrium boot disk I prefer the BartPE plugin from the Pro (trial) version because it lets you create...
I prefer LSoft's Active@ Boot Disk (v5.0.5) - it has Active@ Disk Image v3.3.8 and all the other Active@ softwares and lots of great utilities....
I tested it (v1.1) on a virtual machine. The interface was great, but the features were limited, it was slower than most other backup tools, and...
Something to try for people with boottime problems: Install UD into C:\UDEFRAG or another short path name in %SystemDrive% or %SystemRoot%...
You mean when you turn on your virtual PC on VMware Workstation? In WinXP you enter "control userpasswords2" into command prompt or the run...
I prefer ERUNT because system restore has failed me about half the times I needed it, and it hogs resources and slows the computer down. And if...
DiskTrix site now says the release is expected Jan 2010... I like the sound of this feature: But I will only like it if it comes in the...
Give Regshot Unicode a try: http://www.woodmann.com/collaborative/tools/index.php/Regshot_Unicode You can add system folders to monitor (and...
I tried to install iCore Virtual Accounts 2.5.1.165 several times without success. Error reads: I turned on fast user switching, disabled...
Excellent offer. There's also a portable version of the Paragon Total Defrag 2010 Special Edition, which you can run from BartPE/XPE CD/USB for...
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