Incidental System Degradation It used to be common to reinstall Windows every year or so. Once installed, Windows would inevitably start slowing down and become progressively slower and less stable. Now, while Windows 7 and Windows 8 might be more stable and less prone to incidental system degradation, it does still happen. With regular use…
Finally a Better FREE Alternative for Windows SteadyState SteadyState is gone! Is there a SteadyState replacement for Windows 7, 8/8.1, and 10? Microsoft Corporation used to offer a free utility to reset public access computers back to an administrator-defined baseline to quickly undo any changes made by users. Microsoft introduced its Shared Computing Toolkit back…
IT Management for Internet Cafés / Cybercafés Internet cafés (or cybercafés) are a growing industry in the technology world, especially in emerging markets. However, many of these Internet cafe owners face one big problem. How could the IT manager of these multi-user machines quickly restore the systems after every user’s session and recover if one…
Public Access Computer Management – What Is It? Public access computers are defined as those computer systems located in the public domain and is made usable for patrons/students for their shared usage. The most common places you will find publicly accessible computers would be in Libraries and in School systems. Managing Public Access Computers: Libraries…
Write Protecting the Hard Drive To streamline their IT operations, ensure maximum availability, and to quickly resolve incidents, many IT shops find that it’s best to write-protect the hard disks of their multiple-user computers. But physically write-protecting the harddrive won’t let users perform even prosaic functions that require the creation of temporary files. So if,…
The Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows The Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows was designed to help administrators better manage and secure public computers, such as those in kiosks, libraries, Internet cafes, schools, etc. But the toolkit is useful for any situation in which multiple persons use the same computer, including family computing and small business…
Windows SteadyState: Designed to Provide a “Steadier State” for Public Access PCs Windows SteadyState was formerly known as Microsoft’s Shared Computer Toolkit. Both the “Toolkit” and Windows SteadyState were discontinued freeware tool developed by Microsoft. The concept behind SteadyState was to provide teachers an easy to administer method for configuring public access computers. It was…
What is Comodo Time Machine (CTM)? Is there an alternative to Comodo Time Machine? Comodo Time Machine was a highly configurable system restore application that takes ‘snapshots’ of your computer at regular intervals. As the name suggests, Comodo Time Machine was a Time machine for your PC. Comodo Time Machine seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Windows…
Hard Drive Restore Software It seems that using Windows requires that you do a fresh install of Windows every so often. Running an install of Windows for extended periods of time — installing and uninstalling programs, updating Windows and all your various programs, combating infections, changing settings, creating and deleting files, et cetera — inexorably…
RollBack Rx: A Great Maintenance Solution Maintaining a PC or a network of PCs has become very easy with the RollBack Rx system restore software – It enables you to perform a complete PC restore while at the same time retaining all the data even if it has been created after the system restore point….