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I believe the context menu from PCMag may fulfill your requirements.

Ted

I believe the context menu from PCMag may fulfill your requirements.

Ted

I believe that the Powertoys is the most useful, it has a MRU list that reserves the previously used directions.

The Moonsoftware is completely configurable, I found it cumberson.

The other little utility is the PCMag ContextMenu Plus Menu Editor.

Hope this helps.

I have all three installed, there aren’t any conflicts but use the Powertoy Version on my Win XP Home System

I believe that the Powertoys is the most useful, it has a MRU list that reserves the previously used directions.

The Moonsoftware is completely configurable, I found it cumberson.

The other little utility is the PCMag ContextMenu Plus Menu Editor.

Hope this helps.

I have all three installed, there aren’t any conflicts but use the Powertoy Version on my Win XP Home System

Moonsoftware used to have a program called File Targets, I have tried it, but prefer the Send To from PowerToys. The Win98 version works on XP Home.
File Targets is under Free Utilities at http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp%5B/url%5D and yes it is free.
Ted

Moonsoftware used to have a program called File Targets, I have tried it, but prefer the Send To from PowerToys. The Win98 version works on XP Home.
File Targets is under Free Utilities at http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp%5B/url%5D and yes it is free.
Ted

Mark, this program was released on a magazine CD in Australia. I weakened and installed the trial version. Completely impressed. I have BackupMyPC, Acronis True Image, Symantec Ghost, PowerQuest’s Drive Image (now Symantec). I was impressed with NTI BackUpNow version 3.0

I purchased the Suite, which includes the NTI Drive Backup. In my opinion the interface of both programs leave all the others in their wake.

For what it is worth, consider the disadvantages of Backing up to CD-RW at 4X if your burner does not support 12X the time taken is unbelievable, particularly if you are paying staff (I am now retired). CD-R’s in Australia cost about 50 cents for disks that comply with the Orange Book Part II standard. Junior staff cost out at about A$50.00 per hour. Most drive backup programs will produce a CD in about 10 minutes at 12X, thus the time charge is A$8.33 per disk. Doesn’t take long to think about your media.

Now that we are all becoming aware of backups (again) I purchased a USB (LaCie) 160GByte drive A$300.00. I can backup my system in minutes. I have 2 X 40 GByte HDD (IDE) and do complete backups to 3 locations on the USB drive. That way by rotation I always have two recent backups while the third is being created. Once the backup has been created the USB drive is disconnected. No surges or spikes.

Mark, this program was released on a magazine CD in Australia. I weakened and installed the trial version. Completely impressed. I have BackupMyPC, Acronis True Image, Symantec Ghost, PowerQuest’s Drive Image (now Symantec). I was impressed with NTI BackUpNow version 3.0

I purchased the Suite, which includes the NTI Drive Backup. In my opinion the interface of both programs leave all the others in their wake.

For what it is worth, consider the disadvantages of Backing up to CD-RW at 4X if your burner does not support 12X the time taken is unbelievable, particularly if you are paying staff (I am now retired). CD-R’s in Australia cost about 50 cents for disks that comply with the Orange Book Part II standard. Junior staff cost out at about A$50.00 per hour. Most drive backup programs will produce a CD in about 10 minutes at 12X, thus the time charge is A$8.33 per disk. Doesn’t take long to think about your media.

Now that we are all becoming aware of backups (again) I purchased a USB (LaCie) 160GByte drive A$300.00. I can backup my system in minutes. I have 2 X 40 GByte HDD (IDE) and do complete backups to 3 locations on the USB drive. That way by rotation I always have two recent backups while the third is being created. Once the backup has been created the USB drive is disconnected. No surges or spikes.

Now that you mention it, what are Symantec going to do with Drive Image and Ghost, bloat Drive Image and call it Ghost II, discontinue Ghost and rebadge Drive Image or build a V90 out of 2 types of 56K modems?

Now that you mention it, what are Symantec going to do with Drive Image and Ghost, bloat Drive Image and call it Ghost II, discontinue Ghost and rebadge Drive Image or build a V90 out of 2 types of 56K modems?

I received an e-mail from Acronis advising me I was entitled to an upgrade, my path was a freebie version 6, paid upgrade to version 7. The two weeks later this advice regarding a free upgrade and new registration number.

The new version is great, I have been trying to image my disks for weeks. Recent posts will confirm. I installed the new version imaged to my LaCie USB 2 160G. drive cleaned everything off the imaged drive, then booted off the created disk. Immediate recognition of the USB drive, restored the image and every program install on that drive is fine.

I would trust Acronis. From Australia because of time differences support is not great. This is the only company that have honoured the policy of advising me of upgrades. I started in computers back in the days of DOS 2 about 1985. Gee, that’s 20 years ago.

Ted

I received an e-mail from Acronis advising me I was entitled to an upgrade, my path was a freebie version 6, paid upgrade to version 7. The two weeks later this advice regarding a free upgrade and new registration number.

The new version is great, I have been trying to image my disks for weeks. Recent posts will confirm. I installed the new version imaged to my LaCie USB 2 160G. drive cleaned everything off the imaged drive, then booted off the created disk. Immediate recognition of the USB drive, restored the image and every program install on that drive is fine.

I would trust Acronis. From Australia because of time differences support is not great. This is the only company that have honoured the policy of advising me of upgrades. I started in computers back in the days of DOS 2 about 1985. Gee, that’s 20 years ago.

Ted

I am doing a full erase, I have tried the version on the new interface of Nero 6 under extras and by going into Burning Rom under recorder>erase disk. Yes they work straight out of the box, but are completely useless once used. I need (or would like) a third party utility to try another type of erase.

I purchased a 100 slim line boxed set of Imation CD-RW disks specifically for the Incremental backup procedure I have used for years, I should have purchased 1000.

Thanks for the help, any further suggestions are welcome.

Ted

I am doing a full erase, I have tried the version on the new interface of Nero 6 under extras and by going into Burning Rom under recorder>erase disk. Yes they work straight out of the box, but are completely useless once used. I need (or would like) a third party utility to try another type of erase.

I purchased a 100 slim line boxed set of Imation CD-RW disks specifically for the Incremental backup procedure I have used for years, I should have purchased 1000.

Thanks for the help, any further suggestions are welcome.

Ted

Thanks for all the advice, the Symantec site states that any disk previously formatted should be erased by using the unformat utility. There are a couple of ways in NERO, but I cannot get any of them to work after they have been used once.

I idea was a third party utility that may have achieved the same result. That is return the disk to it’s native state.

Ted