jfcarbel
15th July 2003, 17:29
I am looking for a tool that will take snapshots of system dlls, registry, drivers, codecs, DirectX filters for my Windows 2000 setup.
I was looking at a product called GoBack now sold by Symantec, but the issue with this product was its system restore points restored everything. This is not what I want since this could actually cause data loss. Say I have made some changes to documents in My documents folder, I don't want these to be restored rather just the OS files that are now causing me to crash.
Does a System Restore utility for Windows 2000 exist that does this and includes the below options:
option to exclude multimedia and document files (.jpg, .mp3, .avi, .doc, .rtf, etc.)?
option to exclude some directories from being monitored (For example, temporary directories and Internet caches)
Sometimes I install a program that writes an OCX or DLL with a different version over a newer version and then causes another program on my system to crash. Uninstalling the culprit program is not a solution since it will just remove the DLL or will prompt you during an unstall - "another program may be using the file do you wish to remove it". If you remove it then you are without a DLL that another program on your machine may need.
I want to be able to take a snapshot of my system before I do an install a new program and then:
- revert back if it causes problems, by replacing the overwritten DLLs and other system files with the originals
- revert back to registry settings before install
- will NOT revert back to old versions of my data files in My Documents, etc.
- removing the program that was installed
I was looking at a product called GoBack now sold by Symantec, but the issue with this product was its system restore points restored everything. This is not what I want since this could actually cause data loss. Say I have made some changes to documents in My documents folder, I don't want these to be restored rather just the OS files that are now causing me to crash.
Does a System Restore utility for Windows 2000 exist that does this and includes the below options:
option to exclude multimedia and document files (.jpg, .mp3, .avi, .doc, .rtf, etc.)?
option to exclude some directories from being monitored (For example, temporary directories and Internet caches)
Sometimes I install a program that writes an OCX or DLL with a different version over a newer version and then causes another program on my system to crash. Uninstalling the culprit program is not a solution since it will just remove the DLL or will prompt you during an unstall - "another program may be using the file do you wish to remove it". If you remove it then you are without a DLL that another program on your machine may need.
I want to be able to take a snapshot of my system before I do an install a new program and then:
- revert back if it causes problems, by replacing the overwritten DLLs and other system files with the originals
- revert back to registry settings before install
- will NOT revert back to old versions of my data files in My Documents, etc.
- removing the program that was installed