GoBack 3 Deluxe

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Summary: Oops Protection At 4am
Review: This great ap has saved my butt 6 times in the 30 day free trial period because I clicked the wrong button or changed some obscure property at 4am and totally fragged my system. Oops just didn't cut it. GoBack 2.2 got me up and running again in minutes without a hitch. Great program for peace of mind while you try that next freeware download from Nonags.

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Summary: Don't run a computer without it!
Review: This is a great product, which was better, in my opinion, when it was still owned by Adaptec. I simply don't care for Roxio products in general, and don't like their interface. Nonetheless, they own Go Back now, and I wouldn't run a computer without it. It's just too easy to hit the wrong key or try to install software that turns out to be buggy, with dreadful, tear-inducing results -- unless you have installed Go Back. A time machine for your computer. Such a deal! Best if you install it from the get-go, as soon as you set up your system, and whatever you do, don't disable it (see above).

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Summary: When it works, great, when not watch out
Review: This is definitely a program for the computer savvy. When it worked for me it was great...I got around very bad viruses twice. However, the degree to which it dragged on my write capabilities (I have a 1.2gig processor, 500+ meg of ram), and seemed to bog me down when running multiple programs at once led to write errors and eventually the need to reformat what became a hopelessly fragmented drive. This on my main computer that suffered from some of the shutdown problems typical of Win98SE. On another computer which I use far more gently, usually keeping one program at a time open, it seems to be fine, though the constant humming of the hard drive is a distraction. My sense is that it should be installed on a very clean machine after full fragmenting, disk scans, etc. for the utmost protection. Unfortunately the documentation does not provide ample caveats and warnings about possible problems -- a feature it has in common with other Roxio software. I may try another install and be far more careful with disk maintenance -- should be done from dos or safe mode -- and shut down, but the jury is out for awhile because I use an excellent Mijenix program which allows me to easily go back to older system settings when things start to screw up. Careful backing up of files, virus checking and firewalling may provide ample protection for most users.

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Summary: Bring back undo deleted writings
Review: This is one software that we all need to have.
It will greet you as you enter Windows, take away any files
not needed.
Bring back the accidental deleted work. Who knows may save your
job.Your hide!! Check it out.

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Summary: Superb Users Manual; predictable conflict w/Boot Magic
Review: This is the BEST-written USERS MANUAL I've ever read (over 35 years of S/W use). Crystal clarity of language; tight, well explained reasoning behind the procedures; even ambiguities in the inputs are recognized and resolved. That is a fine accomplishment itself!
Goback operates at such a low level, it could have interacted badly with every bit of software on my machine -- but it doesn't and so far it deserves high marks. Can't give all five stars yet without running it a year or so.
It did refuse to load Windows while I still had "Boot Magic" activated and configured for two (Win 98) systems. Once BM was uninstalled, Goback seemed to work fine. I would pay attention to the manual's warnings about dual boot systems under any management but Microsoft's. Goback should give me the operating system (Win 98) stability I was looking for without putting on two operating systems, anyway.

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Summary: Saved many many hours
Review: This product has saved me over and over again. If you install some driver, or other software and blow up your system, in 10 minutes this has you back to where you started. All of that with no back-up tapes to keep track of.

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Summary: One of the best in the category....
Review: This program does the best job by safely restoring the changes you have made by mistake on your computer. I could restore my Windows 2000 Professional PC (Dell Pentium 4) after I have installed a program from Oracle (Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition for Windows 2000). GoBack used just few really simple steps and gave me a choice to which safe point I wanted to rollback. After a short time my system was completely up and running. GoBack can safe you tons of time and keep your system safe.

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Summary: it WAS a good product, not anymore
Review: Used GoBack for over 3 years on 98SE and w2k.
Brilliant programme, because it saved my "you know what" many many many times.
August 2004:
Firing up my pc, I couldn't get passed the GoBack startup screen.
Restarted again and again and again. No dice.
Symantec suggests to uninstall GoBack with [GB_Prog.exe] (a removal tool they provide: still nothing.
Lost 40 Gb of data and my HD seems to be totally empty.
Bought a new HD, because I still hope to retrieve some of my data (...??) and started from scratch (w2k). Stupidly enough I re-istalled GoBack, because I was so used to it, and because it was such a great life saver and I thought that maybe the problems were due to malware.
GUESS WHAT HAPPENED?
With only a fresh w2k-install and no other software except from Norton anti-virus and GoBack on the system, the same problem started ALL OVER AGAIN.
It's IMPOSSIBLE to get past the corrupted GoBack startup screen and there I was: stuck again!
Horryfing.
For one reason or another, GoBack is CAUSING DIRE problems these days.
Don't even consider using it.





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Summary: I used to love GoBack
Review: When I had Windows 98, it was great. When I upgraded with a new computer and Windows XP, I couldn't use my old stand-by (incompatible), so got the the version that was compatible with XP. After installation, I couldn't shutdown or restart the computer. When I un-installed the program, my computer worked just fine. I'll try it again later, after downloading more XP updates.

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Summary: I used to love GoBack
Review: When I had Windows 98, it was great. When I upgraded with a new computer and Windows XP, I couldn't use my old stand-by (incompatible), so got the the version that was compatible with XP. After installation, I couldn't shutdown or restart the computer. When I un-installed the program, my computer worked just fine. I'll try it again later, after downloading more XP updates.