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[[Rollback type apps do not affect data files which is what ransomware encrypts. How could it? If rollback apps did they would remove all files updated or added since the rollback point including any data you had from that time forward]]

The rollback files I believe are held in a protected area of the hard-disk- I don’t know if ransomeware can get into protecte parts of a disk or not? If not, then it wouldn’t matter if ransomeware messed up the main had-drive, the old snapshots would revert your drive to a previous state bwefore the ransomeware changed everything to encryption- but you’d ghave to rollback to a tiem before the ransomeware hit because any files afterwards probably would be snapshotted as encrypted too

Yep- you’d lose you most recent files unless you did daily snapshots whenever you updated your fiels/documents etc (although that’s not really feasible as snapshots take up a good bit of room) But if you do snapshots once a week or every two weeks or whatever, you wouldn’t be losing a lot- and really, if you have important documents/work that you are working on, then you’d want to back those up to an off-computer device or site every time you update them anyways- and any software you would lose can simply be reinstalled-

It’s a lot better in my opinion than paying $1000 to unlock your hard-drive

RollbackRX- unless somehow it messes that up too? If not, if you get any virus, or your system goes corrupt- simply do a rollback to a point in time before the infection of corruption. I would assume Rollback would be able to restore your computer to a time BEFORE the ransomware executable was run on your computer-

It’s very easy and worry free practically- of course something could happen to the rollbackrx where it becomes corrupt and won’t work, but in the many years I’ve used it, doing probably 100’s of rollbacks, it’s never failed me yet- I’ve had several viruses I n that time, and a simple couple of mouse clicks, and virus is completely gone- no mucking around with finding hidden files, no mucking with registry keys, no searching computer files for infected code- none of that- just pull up rollback menu on bootup (It loads before windows starts to load) and do a rollback from there- easy peasy

RollbackRX is like system restore on steroids, and does things system restore can’t do- best $60 I’ve spent for the computer- One tiem fee- no yearly subscription-

I would think that using rollbackRX with offsite or off computer backup, and good antivirus, and perhaps something like nortons internet security or some such program, and using whitelists would go al ong way towards ensuring protection of computer- Sandboxing sounds like a good idea too- but I do like the RollbackRX for it’s ease of use and quickly restoring computer to a known good point before infections happen- takes just a matter of a few minutes, and viruses and malware and tojans etc all gone- completely- no worries

John- the other good thing about rollbackRX is that it completely reverts a drive back in time to a point before you installed software- so everything is for sure 100% gone from computer- no uninstalling necessary- what I do if I’m installing something to try- I’ll do a manual restore point in rollbackRX and then install software, and if anything goes wrong, or I decide I don’t like the program or whatever, if it really messes up the computer, no worries- I just do a rollback and it’s completely gone- no worries about leftover files, or files that are hidden or disguised or whatever- everything is gone

A few years ago I created 2 desktop shortcuts on my then XP computer and recently on my 2 Windows 7 computers
The shutdown shortcut is SHUTDOWN -S -T 1
The restart shortcut is Restart > SHUTDOWN -R -T 1
Upon shutting down a message appears that the shortcut will take less than a minute
Can I make that less than 30 or 15 seconds?
For my computers less than 15 seconds will be fine
— I haven’t actually determined how long it takes but it does happen very quickly
But for my family I prefer less than 30 seconds

If all you want is a quick easy way to shut down without having to wait, install strokeit (a mouse gesture program with an unfortunate name) and all I do to bring up the shut down menu is do a very quick down/right mouse gesture and the box pops up and I choose which I want to do, shut down, restart etc- I use it more for convenience than speed- but it is fast and I don’t have to worry about moving mouse down to start menu, every time I want to shut down- mouse gesture can be doen from any screen position- I also use it to very quickly close open windows, programs files etc- instead of having to move up to right hand close button (it’s hard for me to see bad eyesight and shaky hands-) I just swipe mouse down/right and the window closes instantly- I can also go back and forth between pages by swiping left or right anywhere on page (You hold down right mouse button when you swipe) and the pages switch to previous or recent or whatever- very convenient- can also switch very easily between open windows without need to always hit the small back and forward buttons- once you get the hang of using gestures, you’ll wonder how you lived without it- makes working on computer a lot quicker- I can even bring up my calculator by swiping a ‘C’, and snip tool by swiping an ‘S’ etc- no need to hunt through menus to find them

Anyway- with gestures it’s a two step process, but quick, with shutdown icon it’s one step- but with the gestures installed, you can do lots more besides, and shutting down is very quick- just have to hit drop down list when box pops up- but no big deal