Helllo to all on the Forum
I am new to this forum as of yesterday and also (obviously) a new user of CTM. First a few comments. I had been using Rollback for the last 4 years and although it has a few minor issues, for the most part it did exactly what it was supposed to do.....save my ass!...lol. Recently,however, I developed a problem with this machine that drove me up a wall for around a month. I was getting a BSOD whenever I would either stop using the computer for around 10 minutes or at various un-specific times while using it. It wasn't a RAM problem, not a hard drive problem and it wasn't being caused by another program either; it was being caused by Rollback itself. The ID on the BSOD said that it was having an issue with "Shield.Sys.".......which is a file associated only with Rollback located in the Window's / System 32 folder. As I said, Rollback has it's little quirks but it always worked well until this issue popped up. To make a long story short and cut to the chase, I finally gave up and decided to use another program.
As there are few other programs to choose from, CTM seemed like the best choice. Version 2.8 has an issue where it doe's not store scheduled snapshots, therefore I moved on to Version 2.9 Beta, the version I am using now. I know that some people are having different problems with Version 2.9, ALL computers have issues......EVERY situation is different and that applies to ALL software no matter what it does. I have to say,however, that on this machine it is working perfectly. The ONLY thing that I'm wondering about is why the operation to return to another snapshot takes SOOOOO long. Rollback would do a revert very quickly and this program is VERY similar. I did do a work a round of sorts by simply scheduling a snapshot for every five minutes, 12 in all, so the revert time is cut down to just a minute or two. So far the program appears to be extremely stable and very reliable. I like to experiment with different programs and "try" things..... THAT is why I find a program like this priceless. I'm just wondering when Version 2.9 will be out of the BETA stage (not that it really matters) and why CTM is NOT listed in the "free programs" section of the website. Just for the record this machine is a Dell 4700 using XP Home, with service pack 3, 3 gb of RAM, Pentium 4 processor a GT-240 video card and a 320 gb HD. CTM did have an issue with Norton so I simply changed to AVG free. For some reason, or reasons, after installing CMT I had a red "X" in the Norton tray Icon and could not enable it. Anyway, it's appears to be a great program and I will be following the forum from this point on. To the developers and all who are working on it.....GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Radioguy