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Most Dells come with a DRP (Dell Recovery Partition) and will allow you to restore your computer to its original purchase state. Backup any data and perform the restore. You can go to youtube and search dell recovery partition and find loads of video guides or if you prefer google it.

I would be concerned about using the autoupdate feature. There are too many application updates out there that do not work correctly such as Adobe Flash Player. Secunia has a section for that app stating the update does not always remove the previous version and you wind up with multiple versions. It even has the path from Adobe where you can get a uninstaller designed for Flash. The normal add/remove from windows does not always remove previous versions cleanly.

This is no fault with secunia but rather vendors that do not seem too concerned with people being able to uninstall their product. Many times I have had to use other uninstallers such as revo to remove the apps before installing the update.

Autoupdate will probably work fine with about 90% of your installed apps but can really cause headaches if you blindly depend on the upgrade to take care of itself.

I would like to see Secunia develop an autoupdate feature that allows users to pick certain apps they do not want to autoupdate.

I love secunia as a tool to let me know when an application has been patched for security reasons. I will handle the actual update myself. I am not sure what other “enhancements” have been made but I will probably try it since I can turn off the autoupdate “feature”.

Buyer beware. I have been on the Acronis forum checking this out and there are many people experiencing problems with the NonStop Backup feature of this software and they have been complaining since Home 2010 came out. Acronis states the problem is more complicated that they originally thought but keep promising there will be a fix available sometime but will not commit to a time-frame.

NonStop Backup dies problems

When NonStop Backup does work there are open issues with it eating up massive amounts of CPU cycles that has not yet been resolved.

NonStop Backup Constant High CPU Load

In spite of these problems I think I am going to purchase the software. The basic backup and restore for catastrophic disk failures seems to work and this is my main concern.

Charlie

I agree with most of the posts here, but I’ve solved several of these pesky “fake alerts” simply by running System Restore and picking a date when the client knows for sure everything was running well. So far, it’s worked on at least 3 occasions.

Unless I’m totally missing a caveat, I’m surprised others haven’t mentioned this.

This will probably work 95% of the time but I picked up a fake alert once that messed with system restore. When you ran system restore it would restore the current infected system no matter which restore point you selected. The original restore points were removed by the virus and system restore became useless.

I would say that system restore would always be my first option.

It is probably best to uninstall. Before you do this you might want to save your preverences. Not sure what your OS is but in vista these preferences are stored in C:UsersUsersNameAppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser Data. I think in XP it is in C:Documents and Settings[your name]Local SettingsApplication DataChromiumUser Data. I am not sure about Windows 7 but am guessing you can find it. Backup the entire User Data directory

Now uninstall Chrome and reinstall the new version. You can then restore the backup you made of User Data.

If for some reason the uninstall leaves remnants of your old version, use a good uninstaller such as revo( its free ) and it will allow you to safely do some additional cleanup after it runs the vendor provided uninstall.