SecondChance 2.0 PC CD crash protection backup undelete Type: Application Platform: Windows Publisher: Powerquest Released: 1999 Media: CD Have you ever installed a software update that failed, erase a system file or get a virus that accidentally crashed your system? If so, you know that restoring to a healthy working system is painful and can be a chase just to find the origin of the failure and that is just the beginning of the problem. If you aren’t yet a Windows Me user, PowerQuest has got a software solution for you named Second Chance 2.0. As its name indicates, Second Chance 2 will give you a second chance to restore a working PC environment. In fact Second Chance 2.0 isn’t a backup or image program like DriveImage or Norton Ghost. Indeed it works smarter and faster as Second Chance 2.0 continuously monitors your hard drives and saves backup copies of files that were modified, updated or deleted. To do so Second Chance 2.0 creates restore points (as written below in the setup part of the review) automatically but you can obviously create your own restore points at your convenience: indeed by simply pushing the ‘Create control point’ button it’ll be done. You can take up to 24 different restore points per day and obviously you can manage them in the software and delete those who aren’t needed anymore. When you launch Windows the program is automatically launched and doesn’t affect the computer performance: indeed even if it takes 2MB in memory we didn’t notice any slow downs during our extensive tests. Second Chance 2.0 will track every system change such as file modification, file creation, file deletion, etc. Only Internet cache folders and temporary folders won’t be watched. Second Chance 2.0 also allows you to change the space limit of the control points you create so when the limit is reached new restore points will delete old ones automatically or on demand. You can even define automatic day save limit to tell the program how many days it should keep restore points when the hard disk space is reached. If you don’t want monitor some folders of your hard drives you can exclude them from the monitoring process easily. Finally you can schedule the checkpoint creation day by day, hour per hour. For Windows (32-bit Systems) [*Please review compatibility/platform sections in 'What You Get']
