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it works before windows loads by simply hitting the ‘home’ key as the omputer begins to boot up(and also works once windows loads if you want) and when it works before windows loads, it means it will work before the virus or whatever messes up your computer making it impossible to get to soemthign like system restore- with rollbackrx, northing has booted yet, so the problem caused by the virus won’t prevent you from getting to your rollbackrx snapshots- you choose the snapshot before windows loads, and it will load that snapshot with no problem- and you are back up and running-

Like I said, it’s system restore on steroids- it’ been a fantastic program that allows me to try all these different things, programs etc without fear of corrupting my system

There’s also something called sandboxing where your computer runs in a virtual environment, and if your computer gets corrupted, it’s just the virtual part that gets corrupted, and you simply delete that environment- not exactly sure how it works, but I’ve always had good luck with rollbackrx so never tried sandboxie-

Rollbackrx will cause a tinty performance hit o nthe computer- but barely noticeable,and you will have to periodically delete some snapshots and defrag your snapshots (all from within the program itself) to free up the space it takwes up- the snapshots are huge- but I keep only about 8 snapshots- the first one beign right after clean install of windows and updates etc- then progressive snapshots like whenever I install programs and like them- I’ll do a snapshot- that way I won’t lose it if I do a rollback to that point

you will lose recent changes to your computer (like if you wrote a thesis or charts or whatever) if you do a rollback, BUT you can retrieve individual files after you’ve done a rollback to a point in time before you wrote the charts or whatever you were working on- so that’s not an issue

Bottom line is I won’t run a computer without rollback on it any more- I never ever have to worry about viruses- about going through my computer to find left overs from viruses, about downloading removal tools for viruses, or about me doing something unknowingly that might mess my computer up like hacking my registry so bad that computer won’t load- or whatever- a couple of clicks, and my computer is back up and running with NO trace of the virus at all and no going through all my computer files to find all the remnants of a virus- no need for it- as all the files are gone because my computer is reverted completely to a time BEFORE the virus hit