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Here is one helluva program that has protected my computer for a number
of years without having any AV or other "Security" program installed.

Toolwiz Time Freeze is a free instant system protection tool that will
protect your system from any unwanted changes and malicious activity in
low disk level.

With a simple click, it puts your actual system under virtual protection
on the fly and creates a virtual environment as a copy of the real
system, on which you can evaluate applications, watch movies, and
perform online activities. It provides higher-level security to computer protection, and greatly improves the efficiency of virtual system

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/toolwiz_time_freeze.html

Download directly from Majorgeeks. The Author link is a dead link. The program was discontinued by ToolWiz a while back.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/toolwiz_time_freeze,1.html
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<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

Here is one helluva program that has protected my computer for a number
of years without having any AV or other "Security" program installed.

Toolwiz Time Freeze is a free instant system protection tool that will protect your system from any unwanted changes and malicious activity in
low disk level.

With a simple click, it puts your actual system under virtual protection
on the fly and creates a virtual environment as a copy of the real
system, on which you can evaluate applications, watch movies, and
perform online activities. It provides higher-level security to computer protection, and greatly improves the efficiency of virtual system

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/toolwiz_time_freeze.html

Download directly from Majorgeeks. The Author link is a dead link. The program was discontinued by ToolWiz a while back.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/toolwiz_time_freeze,1.html

Actually it does not create a virtual environment as do VMMs (Virtual
Machine Managers, like Virtualbox, VMware) under which programs run.
Toolwiz was one of a myriad of rollback tools that create a virtual disk
(VD) to where all I/O writes go. A reboot is required to discard the
VD, so further reads and writes are to the real disk. Comodo had a
similar tool, Comod Time Machine (CTM), but it also included snapshots
to which you could restore; however, CTM was always flaky, caused data corruption, and Comodo dropped it over a decade ago. Apparently Comodo
didn't build the product, and instead rebranded it from Horizon DataSys' Rollback Rx; see:

https://horizondatasys.com/comodo-time-machine/
"Since Comodo Time Machine was a rebrand and was the base code of
RollBack Rx – Comodo Time Machine could not be updated unless it aquired
the latest code by the development team of Horizon DataSys.
Unfortunately, due to legal disputes, Horizon DataSys no longer deals
with Comodo and thus there is no development relationship between
Horizon DataSys to further build Comodo Time Machine."

Toolwiz Time Freeze (TTF) was abandoned back in Jan 2011I remember
testing TTF for a few months, but decided it was not reliable. There
are plenty of alternatives:

Horizon DataSys Rollback Rx
- Free Home edition got EOL'd in 2019.
- Used to be Reboot Restore Rx, but no longer a free version.
Horizon DataSys Reboot Restore Rx
- No longer a free edition. $39, and up.
Faronics Deep Freeze ($48)
Shadow Defender ($39)

While I trialed several in the past, I haven't use any for many years.
Instead I rely on image backups to which I can restore the exact state
of the disk(s). There are many free image backup programs. I use
Macrium Reflect, but paid for it to get its backup protection (no
process other than Reflect can rename, delete, move, or write to its
backup image files).

Toolwiz Time Machine is free, yes, but it is ancient and unsupported.
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:28:41 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

DEL

Toolwiz Time Freeze (TTF) was abandoned back in Jan 2011I remember
testing TTF for a few months, but decided it was not reliable.

Not reliable? I've used it and only it for protection for years and it
never failed me.

All that babel about other virtual drives, etc., has nothing to do with
Time Freeze. It works.
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:28:41 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

Here is one helluva program that has protected my computer for a number
of years without having any AV or other "Security" program installed.

Toolwiz Time Freeze is a free instant system protection tool that will
protect your system from any unwanted changes and malicious activity in
low disk level.

With a simple click, it puts your actual system under virtual protection
on the fly and creates a virtual environment as a copy of the real
system, on which you can evaluate applications, watch movies, and
perform online activities. It provides higher-level security to computer
protection, and greatly improves the efficiency of virtual system

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/toolwiz_time_freeze.html

Download directly from Majorgeeks. The Author link is a dead link. The
program was discontinued by ToolWiz a while back.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/toolwiz_time_freeze,1.html

Actually it does not create a virtual environment as do VMMs (Virtual
Machine Managers, like Virtualbox, VMware) under which programs run.
Toolwiz was one of a myriad of rollback tools that create a virtual disk
(VD) to where all I/O writes go. A reboot is required to discard the
VD, so further reads and writes are to the real disk.

Toolwiz Time Freeze (TTF) was abandoned back in Jan 2011I remember
testing TTF for a few months, but decided it was not reliable. There
are plenty of alternatives:

Horizon DataSys Rollback Rx
- Free Home edition got EOL'd in 2019.
- Used to be Reboot Restore Rx, but no longer a free version.
Horizon DataSys Reboot Restore Rx
- No longer a free edition. $39, and up.
Faronics Deep Freeze ($48)
Shadow Defender ($39)

While I trialed several in the past, I haven't use any for many years. Instead I rely on image backups to which I can restore the exact state
of the disk(s). There are many free image backup programs. I use
Macrium Reflect, but paid for it to get its backup protection (no
process other than Reflect can rename, delete, move, or write to its
backup image files).

Toolwiz Time Machine is free, yes, but it is ancient and unsupported.

I tried Toolwiz Time Freeze in October of 2023. https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=18368&group=alt.comp.freeware#18368

The virtual disk does require 1 GB of space. There's a message during installation.
I preferred it to Sandboxie Plus for testing software.
I still have the installer, but these days, I usually just uninstall the program I tested and restore the registry if necessary.
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:48:27 -0500, "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net>
wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:28:41 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

Here is one helluva program that has protected my computer for a number
of years without having any AV or other "Security" program installed.

Toolwiz Time Freeze is a free instant system protection tool that will
protect your system from any unwanted changes and malicious activity in
low disk level.

With a simple click, it puts your actual system under virtual protection >>> on the fly and creates a virtual environment as a copy of the real
system, on which you can evaluate applications, watch movies, and
perform online activities. It provides higher-level security to computer >>> protection, and greatly improves the efficiency of virtual system

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/toolwiz_time_freeze.html

Download directly from Majorgeeks. The Author link is a dead link. The >>> program was discontinued by ToolWiz a while back.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/toolwiz_time_freeze,1.html

Actually it does not create a virtual environment as do VMMs (Virtual
Machine Managers, like Virtualbox, VMware) under which programs run.
Toolwiz was one of a myriad of rollback tools that create a virtual disk
(VD) to where all I/O writes go. A reboot is required to discard the
VD, so further reads and writes are to the real disk.

Toolwiz Time Freeze (TTF) was abandoned back in Jan 2011I remember
testing TTF for a few months, but decided it was not reliable. There
are plenty of alternatives:

Horizon DataSys Rollback Rx
- Free Home edition got EOL'd in 2019.
- Used to be Reboot Restore Rx, but no longer a free version.
Horizon DataSys Reboot Restore Rx
- No longer a free edition. $39, and up.
Faronics Deep Freeze ($48)
Shadow Defender ($39)

While I trialed several in the past, I haven't use any for many years.
Instead I rely on image backups to which I can restore the exact state
of the disk(s). There are many free image backup programs. I use
Macrium Reflect, but paid for it to get its backup protection (no
process other than Reflect can rename, delete, move, or write to its
backup image files).

Toolwiz Time Machine is free, yes, but it is ancient and unsupported.

I tried Toolwiz Time Freeze in October of 2023. >https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=18368&group=alt.comp.freeware#18368

The virtual disk does require 1 GB of space. There's a message during installation.
I preferred it to Sandboxie Plus for testing software.
I still have the installer, but these days, I usually just uninstall the program I tested and restore the registry if necessary.

There is no virtual disk required for Time Freeze. I think you're
confusing Time Freeze wtih another program.
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:40:58 -0500, <chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:48:27 -0500, "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:28:41 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

Here is one helluva program that has protected my computer for a number >>>> of years without having any AV or other "Security" program installed.

Toolwiz Time Freeze is a free instant system protection tool that will >>>> protect your system from any unwanted changes and malicious activity in >>>> low disk level.

With a simple click, it puts your actual system under virtual protection >>>> on the fly and creates a virtual environment as a copy of the real
system, on which you can evaluate applications, watch movies, and
perform online activities. It provides higher-level security to computer >>>> protection, and greatly improves the efficiency of virtual system

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/toolwiz_time_freeze.html

Download directly from Majorgeeks. The Author link is a dead link. The >>>> program was discontinued by ToolWiz a while back.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/toolwiz_time_freeze,1.html

Actually it does not create a virtual environment as do VMMs (Virtual
Machine Managers, like Virtualbox, VMware) under which programs run.
Toolwiz was one of a myriad of rollback tools that create a virtual disk >>> (VD) to where all I/O writes go. A reboot is required to discard the
VD, so further reads and writes are to the real disk.

Toolwiz Time Freeze (TTF) was abandoned back in Jan 2011I remember
testing TTF for a few months, but decided it was not reliable. There
are plenty of alternatives:

Horizon DataSys Rollback Rx
- Free Home edition got EOL'd in 2019.
- Used to be Reboot Restore Rx, but no longer a free version.
Horizon DataSys Reboot Restore Rx
- No longer a free edition. $39, and up.
Faronics Deep Freeze ($48)
Shadow Defender ($39)

While I trialed several in the past, I haven't use any for many years.
Instead I rely on image backups to which I can restore the exact state
of the disk(s). There are many free image backup programs. I use
Macrium Reflect, but paid for it to get its backup protection (no
process other than Reflect can rename, delete, move, or write to its
backup image files).

Toolwiz Time Machine is free, yes, but it is ancient and unsupported.

I tried Toolwiz Time Freeze in October of 2023.
https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=18368&group=alt.comp.freeware#18368

The virtual disk does require 1 GB of space. There's a message during installation.
I preferred it to Sandboxie Plus for testing software.
I still have the installer, but these days, I usually just uninstall the program I tested and restore the registry if necessary.

There is no virtual disk required for Time Freeze. I think you're
confusing Time Freeze wtih another program.

It required that amount of space to be able to restore everything.
Call it what you want.
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:06:06 -0500, "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net>
wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:40:58 -0500, <chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:48:27 -0500, "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net>
wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:28:41 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

Here is one helluva program that has protected my computer for a number >>>>> of years without having any AV or other "Security" program installed. >>>>>
Toolwiz Time Freeze is a free instant system protection tool that will >>>>> protect your system from any unwanted changes and malicious activity in >>>>> low disk level.

With a simple click, it puts your actual system under virtual protection >>>>> on the fly and creates a virtual environment as a copy of the real
system, on which you can evaluate applications, watch movies, and
perform online activities. It provides higher-level security to computer >>>>> protection, and greatly improves the efficiency of virtual system

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/toolwiz_time_freeze.html

Download directly from Majorgeeks. The Author link is a dead link. The >>>>> program was discontinued by ToolWiz a while back.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/toolwiz_time_freeze,1.html

Actually it does not create a virtual environment as do VMMs (Virtual
Machine Managers, like Virtualbox, VMware) under which programs run.
Toolwiz was one of a myriad of rollback tools that create a virtual disk >>>> (VD) to where all I/O writes go. A reboot is required to discard the
VD, so further reads and writes are to the real disk.

Toolwiz Time Freeze (TTF) was abandoned back in Jan 2011I remember
testing TTF for a few months, but decided it was not reliable. There
are plenty of alternatives:

Horizon DataSys Rollback Rx
- Free Home edition got EOL'd in 2019.
- Used to be Reboot Restore Rx, but no longer a free version.
Horizon DataSys Reboot Restore Rx
- No longer a free edition. $39, and up.
Faronics Deep Freeze ($48)
Shadow Defender ($39)

While I trialed several in the past, I haven't use any for many years. >>>> Instead I rely on image backups to which I can restore the exact state >>>> of the disk(s). There are many free image backup programs. I use
Macrium Reflect, but paid for it to get its backup protection (no
process other than Reflect can rename, delete, move, or write to its
backup image files).

Toolwiz Time Machine is free, yes, but it is ancient and unsupported.

I tried Toolwiz Time Freeze in October of 2023.
https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=18368&group=alt.comp.freeware#18368

The virtual disk does require 1 GB of space. There's a message during installation.
I preferred it to Sandboxie Plus for testing software.
I still have the installer, but these days, I usually just uninstall the program I tested and restore the registry if necessary.

There is no virtual disk required for Time Freeze. I think you're
confusing Time Freeze wtih another program.

It required that amount of space to be able to restore everything.
Call it what you want.

I never thought about that.

I ain't a tech. That's why I like Time Freeze. The user doesn't have
to know squat except how to turn it On or Off.

It has worked great for me for years.
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<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:28:41 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

DEL

Toolwiz Time Freeze (TTF) was abandoned back in Jan 2011I remember
testing TTF for a few months, but decided it was not reliable.

Not reliable? I've used it and only it for protection for years and it
never failed me.

All that babel about other virtual drives, etc., has nothing to do with
Time Freeze. It works.

Any change made while active is discarded on a reboot. Whether called a virtual drive for writes while active which is discarded on a reboot,
or, like you, it is called farking magic, it does have a non-magical
method of operation.
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Allan Higdon <allanh@vivaldi.net> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:28:41 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

Here is one helluva program that has protected my computer for a number
of years without having any AV or other "Security" program installed.

Toolwiz Time Freeze is a free instant system protection tool that will
protect your system from any unwanted changes and malicious activity in
low disk level.

With a simple click, it puts your actual system under virtual protection >>> on the fly and creates a virtual environment as a copy of the real
system, on which you can evaluate applications, watch movies, and
perform online activities. It provides higher-level security to computer >>> protection, and greatly improves the efficiency of virtual system

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/toolwiz_time_freeze.html

Download directly from Majorgeeks. The Author link is a dead link. The >>> program was discontinued by ToolWiz a while back.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/toolwiz_time_freeze,1.html

Actually it does not create a virtual environment as do VMMs (Virtual
Machine Managers, like Virtualbox, VMware) under which programs run.
Toolwiz was one of a myriad of rollback tools that create a virtual disk
(VD) to where all I/O writes go. A reboot is required to discard the
VD, so further reads and writes are to the real disk.

Toolwiz Time Freeze (TTF) was abandoned back in Jan 2011I remember
testing TTF for a few months, but decided it was not reliable. There
are plenty of alternatives:

Horizon DataSys Rollback Rx
- Free Home edition got EOL'd in 2019.
- Used to be Reboot Restore Rx, but no longer a free version.
Horizon DataSys Reboot Restore Rx
- No longer a free edition. $39, and up.
Faronics Deep Freeze ($48)
Shadow Defender ($39)

While I trialed several in the past, I haven't use any for many years.
Instead I rely on image backups to which I can restore the exact state
of the disk(s). There are many free image backup programs. I use
Macrium Reflect, but paid for it to get its backup protection (no
process other than Reflect can rename, delete, move, or write to its
backup image files).

Toolwiz Time Machine is free, yes, but it is ancient and unsupported.

I tried Toolwiz Time Freeze in October of 2023. https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=18368&group=alt.comp.freeware#18368

The virtual disk does require 1 GB of space. There's a message during installation.
I preferred it to Sandboxie Plus for testing software.
I still have the installer, but these days, I usually just uninstall the program I tested and restore the registry if necessary.

Sandboxie passed to several owners: Ronen Tzur to Invincea (c.2013) to
Sophos (c.2017).

Sandboxie was originally nagware: once a month you got a nag when using
the free version. There was some other feature(s) missing in the free
version. However, later Sophos decided to drop support but continue to
make the software available with no updates, and it all became free,
even the Pro version. No nag, no cripples. In April 2020, Sophos
relinquished all development, and made it open source at Github (https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie). Well, they relinquished
the product to the open source community to archive it at Github. The
Github project I gave is for Sandboxie Plus, a fork of Sandboxie Pro.

I trialed Sandboxie for a short time, but didn't like the nags. The
price was cheap, but I didn't really need to have it. Paying for it (at
that time) gave more options, like per-program isolation.
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<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:48:27 -0500, "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:28:41 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

Here is one helluva program that has protected my computer for a number >>>> of years without having any AV or other "Security" program installed.

Toolwiz Time Freeze is a free instant system protection tool that will >>>> protect your system from any unwanted changes and malicious activity in >>>> low disk level.

With a simple click, it puts your actual system under virtual protection >>>> on the fly and creates a virtual environment as a copy of the real
system, on which you can evaluate applications, watch movies, and
perform online activities. It provides higher-level security to computer >>>> protection, and greatly improves the efficiency of virtual system

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/toolwiz_time_freeze.html

Download directly from Majorgeeks. The Author link is a dead link. The >>>> program was discontinued by ToolWiz a while back.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/toolwiz_time_freeze,1.html

Actually it does not create a virtual environment as do VMMs (Virtual
Machine Managers, like Virtualbox, VMware) under which programs run.
Toolwiz was one of a myriad of rollback tools that create a virtual disk >>> (VD) to where all I/O writes go. A reboot is required to discard the
VD, so further reads and writes are to the real disk.

Toolwiz Time Freeze (TTF) was abandoned back in Jan 2011I remember
testing TTF for a few months, but decided it was not reliable. There
are plenty of alternatives:

Horizon DataSys Rollback Rx
- Free Home edition got EOL'd in 2019.
- Used to be Reboot Restore Rx, but no longer a free version.
Horizon DataSys Reboot Restore Rx
- No longer a free edition. $39, and up.
Faronics Deep Freeze ($48)
Shadow Defender ($39)

While I trialed several in the past, I haven't use any for many years.
Instead I rely on image backups to which I can restore the exact state
of the disk(s). There are many free image backup programs. I use
Macrium Reflect, but paid for it to get its backup protection (no
process other than Reflect can rename, delete, move, or write to its
backup image files).

Toolwiz Time Machine is free, yes, but it is ancient and unsupported.

I tried Toolwiz Time Freeze in October of 2023. >>https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=18368&group=alt.comp.freeware#18368

The virtual disk does require 1 GB of space. There's a message during installation.
I preferred it to Sandboxie Plus for testing software.
I still have the installer, but these days, I usually just uninstall the program I tested and restore the registry if necessary.

There is no virtual disk required for Time Freeze. I think you're
confusing Time Freeze wtih another program.

Magic, virtual disk to where all disk writes were funneled when active,
shadow disk that took all disk writes and was discarded on reboot, ...
or pick another accurate description description or terminology. Looks
like you think the only definition of a virtual disk is one that conumes
RAM to provide fast but temporary storage. So far, it doesn't appear
you have a clue how it worked.
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:18:45 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

Looks
like you think the only definition of a virtual disk is one that conumes
RAM to provide fast but temporary storage. So far, it doesn't appear
you have a clue how it worked.

Correct. I don't have a clue how it works. As I said more than once, I
LUV Time Freeze because the average user doesn't have to have a clue how
it woks. I just WORKS! It has saved my C: numerous times from crap I deliberately/accidentally downloaded.

You tekkie boys just LUV complicate shit. You demean simplicity. It
seems to piss you tekkie boys off when the average ignorant user can
match with SIMPLE what you tekkies insist SHOULD be COMPLICATED - like
the complicated shit you luv to post about with your infamous multi
hundred word posts.

Jeesh! Gimme a break!
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<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:18:45 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

Looks
like you think the only definition of a virtual disk is one that conumes >>RAM to provide fast but temporary storage. So far, it doesn't appear
you have a clue how it worked.

Correct. I don't have a clue how it works. As I said more than once, I
LUV Time Freeze because the average user doesn't have to have a clue how
it woks. I just WORKS! It has saved my C: numerous times from crap I deliberately/accidentally downloaded.

You tekkie boys just LUV complicate shit. You demean simplicity. It
seems to piss you tekkie boys off when the average ignorant user can
match with SIMPLE what you tekkies insist SHOULD be COMPLICATED - like
the complicated shit you luv to post about with your infamous multi
hundred word posts.

Jeesh! Gimme a break!

When someone says how something works, and then you deny that
explanation but don't have a clue of it works, makes you look a fool.
Don't whine about an explanation claiming it is in error.

You made the outright denial of "There is no virtual disk required for
Time Freeze" yet you don't know. You posted to Usenet which is a public communication venue, yet you then reacted like I was only talking to
you. Usenet is not e-mail or chat or texts. My reply, like yours, was addressed to the entire community.

You don't how it works, and you don't want to know, yet you advertise
the product in public while making disclaimers on how it works when you
don't know. Just say "Okay, if you say so, but I'm not into the
details. Thanks anyway." In Usenet, there is no way to reply without replying, and a wholly separate thread would disconnect from your post.
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VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

Toolwiz Time Freeze (TTF) was abandoned back in Jan 2011I remember
testing TTF for a few months, but decided it was not reliable.

Not reliable? I've used it and only it for protection for years and
it never failed me.

Ah, I remember one of the deficiecies of virtual disks to where all
writes are stored when active: a reboot discards the virtual disk, and
all changes on it. While that sounds like a great means of protection,
it sucks for programs that require a reboot to complete their
installation. Yes, you could not have the VD active, so I/O writes go
to the real disk, but then you're not protected during an installation,
and then you have to do the remnant cleanup of the file system and
registry after uninstallation instead of just rebooting to discard all
those changes.

Lots of programs still require a reboot to complete their installation.
It has been too many years since I trialed Toolwiz Time Freeze to recall
if it had an option to write all changes from its VD to the real disk on
a reboot. However, that still won't let you test new software installs
where a reboot is required. You do the install, and want to safely test
the new software, but the new software requires a reboot to finish its installation, but a reboot wipes all changes to the VD (it simply
doesn't exist anymore on the reboot), so what you wanted to install to
test is gone, and you can't test it. If there was an option to write
the VD to the real disk before shutdown and reboot, you lose the
protection since a malicious or rude program is not permanently
installed (until you uninstall or do manual eradication).

In addition, many video games incorporate copyright protections, and
some won't install nor run when they detect a VD is receiving all disk
writes. Yeah, doesn't matter that it has not happened for you, but then
the point is that the VD-discard-on-boot scheme has its defects whether
you specifically encountered them, or not.

Windows, by default, has a scheduled event to run its own defrag tool,
plus it does an optimize on boot when Windows loads. Plenty of other
users employ other defragmenters; however, many of those 3rd-party
defrag users don't realize the layouts conflict with that of Microsoft's defrag, and to prevent the battling over layout (which generates a lot
of disk writes to undo the layout of the other defrag tool) should be
disabling the scheduled event, and null the boot-time registry entry.
Folks may run a defrag while the VD is active, but all those sector
moves get discarded on a reboot when the VD has been discarded, and the
user is back to writing to the real disk. When using a VD scheme, best
to disable the scheduler service. I don't recall Toolwiz Time Freeze
would intercept calls to defraggers, or other tools that should not be
ran while the VD is active.

Users of Toolwiz Time Freeze have also reported that after a reboot that
there are problems starting or using several programs, like web
browsers, ctrl+alt+del doesn't work anymore, revo uninstaller, restore
points refusing to load, or saying an app needs some program to run. If
they saved an image backup before activing the VD protection, and on a
reboot that leaves them with a corrupted setup, they can restore from
the image backup to the exact state before VD was activated.

You activate Toolwiz Time Freeze, and during that VD session you create
or modify some document files. They are in the same partition as the OS
and applications. When you reboot, all those doc changes are lost.

Unlikely that anyone runs their computer without any security software.
Not using any, and despite using Timewiz, means any infection is active
and can perform its malicious activities, like making your computer into
a zombie to participate if DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks
against web site. Yeah, you don't care how your computer is misused,
because you can reboot to eliminate the malware, but it could've been
active while Timewiz was active. Also, if you have documents on other
volumes (other partitions on other disks), Timewiz won't ban changes to
them. Ransomware and other malware doesn't look only on the OS
partition for what to attack. Nothing can happen to the OS partition
that can't be undone after a reboot (when the VD is discarded, and
you're back to the real disk), but that doesn't protect other partitions
on the same or different drives from getting their files renamed, moved, modified, deleted, or encrypted. Which is more important to you: not
having to redo an OS installation, or keeping malware from your docs?
You can do a fresh install of the OS for recovery. Where do you backup
your doc files that cannot be reached by your computer (i.e., do you
have offline backups) by malware active during a VD session?

The only thing I can say positive about Timewiz Time Freeze is that it
is better than Windows' System restore. TTF returns to the original
disk after a reboot, so ALL changes made (only to the OS partition) are
undone. System Restore only restores system files, nothing else.
However, with System Restore, you can walk backward through snapshots.
I don't recall TTF has any snapshots to let you walk back through a
history of write states of its VD.
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:03:26 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

When someone says how something works, and then you deny that
explanation but don't have a clue of it works, makes you look a fool.
Don't whine about an explanation claiming it is in error.

Now you're lying to win an argument. I never denied any explanation
about how a VM works. I've said that over and over.

Show were I specifically claimed anything you said was an error except
for the fact of my claiming Time Freeze has worked for years on my
machine.

You made the outright denial of "There is no virtual disk required for
Time Freeze" yet you don't know.

Higdon said:

The virtual disk does require 1 GB of space.

It required that amount of space to be able to restore everything.
Call it what you want.

I replied:

I never thought about that.

I ain't a tech. That's why I like Time Freeze. The user doesn't have

to know squat except how to turn it On or Off.

You're a liar misrepresenting my post in order to prove what? That
you're more tech knowledgeable than someone who admitted he knows
nothing about the tech end of software? You're that hard up to win some half-assed argument?

You posted to Usenet which is a public
communication venue, yet you then reacted like I was only talking to
you. Usenet is not e-mail or chat or texts. My reply, like yours, was >addressed to the entire community.
You don't how it works, and you don't want to know, yet you advertise
the product in public while making disclaimers on how it works when you
don't know. Just say "Okay, if you say so, but I'm not into the
details. Thanks anyway." In Usenet, there is no way to reply without >replying, and a wholly separate thread would disconnect from your post.

Vanguard, you are so full of shit. You're also a insecure lying shit.
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<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:03:26 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

<chris@gmuck.com> wrote:

When someone says how something works, and then you deny that
explanation but don't have a clue of it works, makes you look a fool.
Don't whine about an explanation claiming it is in error.

Now you're lying to win an argument. I never denied any explanation
about how a VM works. I've said that over and over.

I said Timewiz Time Freeze uses a virtual disk scheme to intercept all
disk writes when active. What did you say?

"All that babel about other virtual drives, etc., has nothing to do with
Time Freeze."

Well, that means you KNOW Time Freeze does not use virtual drives to
intercept disk writes. To Allan you said:

"There is no virtual disk required for Time Freeze."

Again you claim to KNOW Time Freeze does not use virtual drives. Then
you say you don't know. Stop trying to recant what you said. You're
not fooling anyone here.

Sorry you feel I attacked you. That wasn't my intention. I described
how the product works, and it is not the robust anti-malware solution
you profess. It's to protect against user error, not against malware.
You run "without having any AV or other "Security" program installed"
which means even during a virtual session that you can get infected, and
hurt others, or your docs stored in other volumes. Time Freeze is NOT
about thwarting malware as you implied.
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