Idea using Wondershare's Time Freeze

eyeb · 06. Oct 2010, 03:03 AM

I mentioned this to someone in pm but forgot who :S lol. Anyways I've played with this for a while and found I like this set up so I'll share it.

I found out that Time Freeze only protects System Drive (Drive C for most people). Knowing this I made a partition (Drive E for me) where things in it is not protected. I just moved all my files that I'll be working on into it. Since I run firefox portable I can run it out of Drive E as well, along with the rest of my programs (I mainly use portable versions or made them portable myself). I even went as far as installing Avira into Drive E so updates would stick after reboot.

Now I've been running time freeze on all the time on Drive C while working out of Drive E. Drive C is reset after each reboot and I don't loose my files anymore either. My next goal might be to change the My Document/etc folders over to Drive E but I don't use them enough to need to at the moment.

Anyhow, though I'd share this with people. Since this is like a total drive sandbox but before I hated loosing changed files but now I don't.

eyeb · 06. Oct 2010, 06:28 AM

:S can't edit anymore, but wanted to mention that this setup is a lot like Returnil's but I use a partition instead of their virtual disk to save changes. I prefer partition since I can still get to files when I'm using ubuntu/xpud while I can't get to files on virtual disk...

06. Oct 2010, 03:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
eyeb Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Planet X Posts: 487	Idea using Wondershare's Time Freeze I mentioned this to someone in pm but forgot who :S lol. Anyways I've played with this for a while and found I like this set up so I'll share it. I found out that Time Freeze only protects System Drive (Drive C for most people). Knowing this I made a partition (Drive E for me) where things in it is not protected. I just moved all my files that I'll be working on into it. Since I run firefox portable I can run it out of Drive E as well, along with the rest of my programs (I mainly use portable versions or made them portable myself). I even went as far as installing Avira into Drive E so updates would stick after reboot. Now I've been running time freeze on all the time on Drive C while working out of Drive E. Drive C is reset after each reboot and I don't loose my files anymore either. My next goal might be to change the My Document/etc folders over to Drive E but I don't use them enough to need to at the moment. Anyhow, though I'd share this with people. Since this is like a total drive sandbox but before I hated loosing changed files but now I don't.

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06. Oct 2010, 06:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
eyeb Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Planet X Posts: 487	:S can't edit anymore, but wanted to mention that this setup is a lot like Returnil's but I use a partition instead of their virtual disk to save changes. I prefer partition since I can still get to files when I'm using ubuntu/xpud while I can't get to files on virtual disk...