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You need to change the BIOS setting so that your machine looks to the CD ROM first when booting. Than it will detect the disk and by pass your HD.

Yes they do the same thing. They are both ways for you to boot the machine without Windows. They give those two options and a third option in the paid version to insure that not matter what your set up you will have a way to boot. The Linux CD is a joke to make, 30 seconds, and gives you a very simple UI that is basically the Macrium image recovery UI. Thats all you can do with that disk. It's about 6 MB a loads very quick. Once loaded you can remove the disk and the Linux enviroment runs in RAM so you can insert CD/DVD's with your back up images on them if you choose to back up that way. I will be storing my images on an external HD so in my case I would use the Linux disk to navigate to the external HD and retrieve the backed up image. The BartPE plugin is something you add to the BartPE disk that Dennis has been posting shots of. This plugin puts the Macrium image recovery program on that BartPE disk so you can use Macrium from that disk. There is a third option in the paid version for Vista users that creates a Windows PE disk with even more features. The paid version will even add Macrium to your machines boot menu so you can boot without the disk. I'm still messing around with the program but like what I see. When I started looking at these types of apps Lifehacker had just started one of their "whats your favorite" features and in timely fashion it was about Windows back up apps. I noticed some positive comments about Macrium so I checked it out. I also seen the paid version was recently featured on the Give Away Of The Day and had one of the most successful showings ever on there. Read some nice on line reviews about Macrium to. I am also messing around with Drive Image XML. Another free imagining program I read many good things about. It also requires the BartPE disk and provides a plugin for it.

Dump Paragon than. There are many others out there. I am currently messing around with Macrium Reflect free version. The Linux recovery disk that comes with the program boots no problem and the UI is all XP type windows so there is no Linux learning curve with it. The program is pretty slick to. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Those shots are what you see when booting from the BartPE recovery disk? So the Task Bar at the top of the screen and the system tray with the Faststone Capture icon are part of the Bart PE environment?

I worked for a huge MultiNational Consumer products company that downsized as well. They shut the whole place down Not unusual when you consider they have hundreds of facilities world wide. I took my nice big buyout added it to what I had already and use that capital to invest with and live off the results. I was well into investing long before they closed the place so I was actually quite thrilled it happened. I was actually ready to just quit but I could see the writing on the wall and new the place was gone so I hung on or I would have lost that buyout. I manged to bury almost all of the buyout in my RRSP with a little maneuvering and pre planning so it was not taxed.

Maybe that's why I see things the way I do. It's been a few years since I have had to endure the "the 9-5 slavery grind". You right about keening every one's a$$ in control. Our tax system is punitive in this country. You are punished severely for trying to improve your situation. Work overtime in this country and than look at your paycheck (whats left of it) and you will see that you were in fact punished for working harder. Very early in my working life I put a stop to working overtime. I simply was not going to put the hours in so that the genetic garbage heap known as politicians could pocket my hard earned money. Not in Canada the home of the sheeple. Canadians are so pathetic at speaking out and doing anything about anything. They have taking it back door down to an art. They are convinced that it's a privilege to be financially raped. They are convinced that our systems and services are great. I mean think about it we put up with Queen Elizabeth as our head until the 80"s than we peacefully became officially separate with some big ceremonial BS. I still have to look at her ugly mug on all my money for the few seconds it's in my hands before it's taxed out of my hands. The U.S didn't put up the British monarchy long before they booted their asses out of there. There is just something about countries that accept kings and queens. The populations of those countries just seem to be spineless. They would have to be to just accept being ruled by someone simply because that person was born to a specific family. It's insane.

Those were not flying ants. They were border guards seeing if they could find a reason to tax you. Flying ants, border guards, same gene pool.

You don't know the half of it. This Country is a disgrace. From a very early age you learn to grab your ankles and spread wide and take it back door financially. Than you have to put up with idiots telling you how lucky you are to be having it done to you. It 's not unusual to pay 300% more for something than you would in the U.S. They do this simply because Canadians are stupid enough to pay it. They used to tell you it was our weak dollar than our dollar hit parity and above but we are till taking it in the a$$. Now they don't have an excuse. I go over the border monthly at a minimum. When I cross to the U.S they ask who I am, where am I going, how long, any weapons etc. Coming home to Canada first question is what did you buy? They want to put their hands in your pocket. God forbid they miss some tax from you. No questions about are you bringing in weapons, drugs etc. All they care about is raping you financially.

Here is a little article and it gives links to about 5 different versions of bootable rescue CD"s. There is one in there that is huge and has every program on it you can think of. It's almost a complete system on a CD. http://www.techsupportalert.com/create-boo...e-rescue-cd.htm

This is another http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#intro Bart's PE I need to make one of these because many of the imaging/recovery programs I am checking out right now require this to boot from and they supply plugins to add to this disk.

I told you this already remember? You asked about it in another thread I started about Returnil. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=107702 Watch out with it. I am gun shy now.

Is this update going to be available from the internal updater of Spybot or do you have to uninstall the old version and install the new one?

Use this to fix that problem. It removes all registry entries for Spybot. http://www.safer-networking.org/en/howto/uninstall.html

I only had to do it twice and it worked. Lets see how long this lasts though. So far I have open and closed Foxit about 8 times and the ad has not come back.

Better still set Opera to delete the cache on close.

Thanks Humpty and Tom. I take nobody else uses these types of programs?

After my recent disaster that reacquired a reinstall of Widows by using some recovery disks that were made with Symantec Ghost I am going to get my machines ready for just such a disaster. It was quite easy to reinstall with the recovery disks problem is that it wasn't my machine and the disks came with the machine when it was purchased so they put the machine back to that state. If the machine had a recent recovery disk made from an image that was current it would have been that much easier. I am looking for suggestions on a program that will will basically make a copy of my HD and let me burn it to a disk/s so when the inevitable HD failure/Windows disaster happens it's simply a matter of popping in the recovery disk and I am back to where I was. Symantec Ghost is the program that created the disks we used and it was a easy process. I had to look up the instructions via Google but that took all of 1 min and away we went. Is there any recommendations besides Symantec Ghost or is it the best? I prefer a free program obviously but I am more than willing to pay for an app of this type. I'm not really looking to create a partition on my HD and than putting the recovery image on there since that does me no good if the HD fails. I am looking to back up to CD/DVD.

It's not on Opera's site yet.

I don't think Microsoft would appreciate you seeing it that way

I did a clean install after removing the old version.

Update went well which was nice considering my other update went like a bomb. They usually update the older version of FF for several months after the release of a new version.

There is a Personal Edition that is free and available to any one free of charge at anytime. It's a limited version so it doesn't have all the features of the paid version. http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/index...rvspersonal.htm

Life Hacker regularly has a "whats your favorite" feature and people comment on their favorite app for what ever is being polled. This time it's your best Windows Maintenance Tool. CCleaner is kicking some a$$. It's getting many votes. http://lifehacker.com/397658/best-windows-maintenance-tools

Well the computer was restored to the state it was at when it was bought with 3 recovery disks that were made with Symantec Ghost. Good thing about this disaster is that after the reinstall/recovery the computer was at the state it was at 2 years ago when it was purchased so it needed a ton of MS updates. This is what SP3 was made for. I had burned a disk with the ISO image that MS released for SP3 and the link was posted here http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=16412 I popped the disk in and installed SP3. When it was done there were only 11 updates left to download and install from Windows Updates. That was nice. I am sure there would have been a couple million without it. I don't think I will be installing Returnil again anytime soon. The version that was in was working great. I should have left well enough alone. The new version of Returnil simply did not have anything I needed and the older version was working perfectly. I hate updating for the sake of updating. If what I'm using is doing what I want with no bugs or security holes I see no need to update. If the update offers some new features I want or fixes a security problem or bug fix it's worth the risk. Every time you update there is a risk of a disaster like this one. I know this and updated anyways. I am a blond female with big hooters for Canada Day