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Curious, How many people use GoBack?

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Jerry944T

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I have installed GoBack Pro on my XP machine and have found it invaluable since it operates at the boot level and not in Windows. It has saved my hide many a time. I know ME and XP have roll back features but they often do not work in my experience.
I seem to be in an island with GoBack and I'm just wondering if many folks utilize it.
Jerry
 
I'm not sure you would call it auto saving software. It's sort of shadowing software and lets you go back in time.

If you never had a problem where it would have been easy to solve by just resetting your machine to say an hour ago then I bow down to you.

Personally I've downloaded some nasty video drivers that are nearly impossible to remove without a reformat. GoBack saved the day. XP's driver roll back feature is virtually useless in those situations.
 
Hi Jerry944T
Yup, I use it. I bought Nortons 2003 utilities last November and it came with it . I did a format on my HDD right before I installed WinXp (homy ed.) and installed it then

and for the first time since then I used it just last Monday evening when I was trying to get my new Radeon 9700P going, anyhoo, while trying everything under the sun my system crashed big time.

Just when I thinking about blowing up my card I remembered about *GoBack*, and it didn't disappoint me, it worked great and very, very user friendly. Needless to say it saved my system and restored it perfectly 🙂

Also, if you were wondering about the 9700P, I took it back and did an exchange and the new one worked great... good gaming again on my computer 😀
 
Originally posted by: Jerry944T
I have installed GoBack Pro on my XP machine and have found it invaluable since it operates at the boot level and not in Windows. It has saved my hide many a time. I know ME and XP have roll back features but they often do not work in my experience. I seem to be in an island with GoBack and I'm just wondering if many folks utilize it. Jerry
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Jerry, strange question, but is there anything about the product you don't like or think is missing? I'd seriously like to hear your comments (and anyone elses who is willing to give me their 2c).

Best,
Bill


 
Originally posted by: GrumpyMan
How is Goback on system resources and fragmentation of the hard drive if any?
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Goback causes some performance hit as it remaps writes into it's cluster cache and then moves them to their proper home during idle time. So, the protection is not completely 'free', but the impact is so negligable on current hardware vs when it first came out (when a fast machine was a PII 300) that it seems worth it.

Bill
 
Originally posted by: Jerry944T
I'm not sure you would call it auto saving software. It's sort of shadowing software and lets you go back in time.

If you never had a problem where it would have been easy to solve by just resetting your machine to say an hour ago then I bow down to you.

Personally I've downloaded some nasty video drivers that are nearly impossible to remove without a reformat. GoBack saved the day. XP's driver roll back feature is virtually useless in those situations.
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XP tends to save a System Restore point whenever you update drivers. That seems to be enough for me.
 
bsobel,
Yes there are a couple of things that I don't like but they are far offset what I do like.
For instance I can't do a de-frag without disabling GoBack. When you do disable you loose your entire history. I've tried it without disabling and GoBack stops "because of massive disk activity" and doesn't restart till you clear the history.
Now I'm curious. Why do you ask?
 
Well bsobel works for Symantec and is our resident expert here in that regard. Thanks for the explanation on my resources question by the way Mr. bsobel.
 
Now I'm curious. Why do you ask?
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As GM mentioned, I work for Symantec. I'm always interested in feedback for the product groups, and I hadn't seen any discussions about GoBack here in some time (so I figured I'd ask)

Thanks,
Bill


 
I've yet to have a problem where going back any short time would be helpful. What I would like is a free program that logs all registry changes and the name of the program that made it (the exe name, and the chain of processes that spawned it) and displays it with a nice heirarchial grouping by process name and the option to undo either an individual registry change or a entire subtree.

I really wish microsoft would totally remove the registry and map the registry functions to work on a file in the same folder as the program using them. I _____REALLY_____ hate it when uninstallers don't clean up the changes the program made to the registry (which is, unfortunately, most of them). If not for the registry and problems associated with it, I wouldn't need to reformat except when upgrading to a new OS.
 
bsobel
You work for a good company.
While I'm praising GoBack I did think of one modification that I'd really like to see. I'd like the ability to designate and label a restore point ala WinXP.
Don't think that would be difficult to do.
 
Like I said in my post here, I love GOBack 😀 I just wish that I can figure out how to use 'Nortons' Disk-Doctor again.
 
Originally posted by: Extrarius
I've yet to have a problem where going back any short time would be helpful. What I would like is a free program that logs all registry changes and the name of the program that made it (the exe name, and the chain of processes that spawned it) and displays it with a nice heirarchial grouping by process name and the option to undo either an individual registry change or a entire subtree.
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Not free and not exactly what you're seeking, but...

Norton CleanSweep/SmartSweep can monitor program installs (recording all registry entries, etc.) so that if/when you want to UNINSTALL a program you can (theoretically) fully uninstall it. The exception to this rule is if the program creates additional registry entires and files the first time it runs! You can actually trap these entires as well if you manually enable SmartSweep before running a freshly installed program for the first time; however, the burden's on you to remember to do that!

*EDIT* You also have the burden to end the MANUALLY INVOKED SmartSweep "monitoring process." :Q
 
Now I'm curious. Why do you ask?
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I very late followup to fill in some details. We (Symantec) announced the purchase of GoBack from Roxio today. I've been working on the deal for while, hence my earlier question. I just couldn't say that at the time 😉
Bill


 
SystemRestore: Off
GoBack or any similar problems: Not Installed
Regular Backups: ah, which reminds me... :Q 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Jerry944T
bsobel,
Yes there are a couple of things that I don't like but they are far offset what I do like.
For instance I can't do a de-frag without disabling GoBack. When you do disable you loose your entire history. I've tried it without disabling and GoBack stops "because of massive disk activity" and doesn't restart till you clear the history.
Now I'm curious. Why do you ask?
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Weird, I am able to defrag no problem with GoBack enabled.
 
Weird, I am able to defrag no problem with GoBack enabled.
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You can defrag, but the changes are seen by the Goback history and can quickly use all of the history up. We have some ideas how to deal with that (since we know a bit about defrag 😉), so hopefully that will get in.
Bill


 
bsobel:
I hope you make some of the suggested changes to GoBack now that your company has vested interest. I really would like it if you could designate a specific point and write it to a log.
Also right now I dread doing a Defrag because I do loose all history and it takes a substantial amount of time to disable GoBack so I can defrag.
How about allowing GoBack to make use of the larger hard drives. Right now the most space I can allocate is 4GBs.
Hopefully the new Ver, when it comes out will be complimentary upgrade for previous registered uses of the full Version. OK, at least at a minimal cost especially for those who have given you valuable input, 🙂
Jerry
 
Jerry,

I'm on your island! I use it on all of my systems and put it on all of my systems that I build!

A computer doesn't go out the door without GoBack on it!!!

 
Bill,

Now that you asked....

1) Ability to input a manual restore point, not just notes within the log, but a restore point, much like is done in ME & XP.
2) The ability to move / copy the "saved image" (for lack of a better term) to another computer with GoBack installed to do much the same as Ghost, Drive Image, etc...
 
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