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Great review and try-out of EaseUS Data Recovery, but your predicament left me confused and puzzled. Can’t figure out why you didn’t simply recover your data from your backups? You do after all advocate that people “Invest a little time and energy in a well thought out BACKUP regimen and you will have minimal down time, and headache.”:confused:

I concur with the testimonials above for Thunderbird and can highly recommend it. I’ve used it since it first was released and am very pleased with it.

Storagecraft ShadowProtect Desktop. Set up to do a complete image of system and data once a week with hourly incrementals. Weekly backup (wee hours of Sunday morning) takes <40 minutes (210+ GB to a USB 3.0 external hard disk), hourly incrementals take less than one minute. I keep 4 generations of backups on the external HDD. Apart from switching out the external HDD once every month, all is done with no intervention on my part.

With this setup, I can restore everything and anything from the complete system down to an individual file.

ShadowProtect is a heavy duty application and is not cheap. I probably use only a fraction of its capabilities. Thankfully, there are numerous wizards available to help you through the setup.

yerubal, I don’t see Adobe Flash Player plug-in.

This is the up-to-date version.

Thanks, Rebel. Now I know I’m using the basic uploader and how to switch between the two.

As far as this “MVP” is concerned, he stumbled across it out of desperation. Another Moderator has reported completely opposite results in switching between the two Uploaders.

Both Dave and I are still in the dark. How do we switch between uploaders or even determine which one we are currently using. What are the differences between the two?

(just testing… successful again)

You’ve been using the Advanced Uploader, haven’t you? (It now works for me, as well.) The Basic Uploader still is saying “no can do”.

I didn’t know there were two flavors. How can I tell which one I am using? Oh, and what is the difference?

This is a problem that is affecting many people (including Moderators), and is being investigated.

This seems to work for me…

With all due respect, I cannot see that any action I might take to extend the life of a software product by changing the system date on my computer infringes “copyright”.

Could you help me understand your position on this by providing me with the Lounge’s interpretation of the term “copyright” in this context, please.

Many thanks.

It is not the Lounge’s interpretation of ‘copyright’ in any context that matters. Microsoft owns the copyright to Windows7. Microsoft grants you a license to use Windows 7 (even the Beta and RC) under the terms of their applicable End User Licensing Agreement (EULA). Your use of Windows 7 constitutes your acceptance of the terms of the EULA. This then becomes a legally binding contract (offer and acceptance) between Microsoft and you. Any breach of the terms of the EULA by you constitute a breach of Microsoft’s copyright. This is one form of copyright infringement or piracy. Hence Rule 13 applies.

- full time.

…(I can get to my Run line by pressing and holding Win while I type R instead of Win and then R as it used to be)…

…I will say that the Aero Flip 3D is killer and my macro program can program the otherwise arcane keystrokes to activate it. So now I just press the ScrLk key and it immediately pops up. For the first time in 25 years, ScrLk fills a useful purpose. Imagine that…

Rick A.

There are ways to restore the ‘Run’ command to the Start menu, if that is what you require. I may be on shaky ground here, but I can’t remember a time when you could press the WinKey THEN another key to accomplish something. I remember always having to press the WinKey AND another key. But then I am having more and more senior’s moments…

‘Killer’ as in good? Do you really find WinKey + Tab arcane? Seems so much easier than trying to find that key you haven’t used in 25 years!

Here is an explanation of the different states

Very well explained… do you teach at Queen’s?

You are completely right and I was very wrong. I didn’t appreciate the difference between Hibernation and Hybrid Sleep or even that there was a difference. I now understand that Hybrid Sleep is really more like Sleep but with a safety backup of memory. It even allows my mouse to waken the system. Hibernation is much more profound so that on waking the system even goes through some of the routines of a startup such as a check for updates and daily scans. It is also noticeably slower than a wake from Hybrid Sleep although nowhere near as lengthly as a full startup.

They all seem to insist on the monster flashing blue light which makes my den look like there is a giant snow removal truck in it.

It’s not about right or wrong. The Lounge is about sharing, exchanging and learning stuff. We all come away the richer because of it, even if you only lurk here.

I’d be careful about letting your mouse wake your computer. I would often inadvertently wake mine by just nudging it with my elbow while working on something else at my desk, so I disabled that feature. I used to have a mouse with rechargeable batteries. When placed on the charger, it would wake up the computer as soon as it fully charged the batteries. That caused me some perplexing troubleshooting.

What is a UPS anyway?

Also, my Windows 7 64 bit, doesn’t have any other choice in the control panel/power options except sleep. That is all I have to choose from. However it is a choice in Start menu. Lock, sleep, or hibernate. Also as quoted from my computer manual regarding sleep mode it says simply ” sleep mode saves your work to memory so you can resume quickly.It saves memory to the hard disk drive and then goes into a reduced power state….”

A UPS is an uninterruptible power supply, a battery backup usually providing enough emergency power to manually or automatically shut down your computer during a power interruption. A typical consumer UPS costs about $50 to $100 and is available where computers are sold. The big UPS vendors are APC and Belkin, among others.

If the quote from your computer manual is accurate, it sounds as if you have Hybrid Sleep enabled, in which case you are well protected. To verify this, go to Start > Control Panel > Power Options, Click on ‘Change when the computer sleeps’ in the left hand column, then click ‘Change advanced power settings’. In the ‘Power Options’ dialog that pops up, click on the + sign to the right of ‘Sleep’. If ‘Allow hybrid sleep’ is on then you are good to go.

(Ooops… I see everyone got in ahead of me. Gotta learn to use a second finger!)

Not entirely accurate. You do not risk data during Hibernate.

I didn’t say that you did. I equated the risk to using Sleep mode. I recommended Hibernate or Hybrid modes to ensure data integrity.

On a desktop, there is no advantage to Sleep…

Of course there is. At the very least it’s the ‘green’ thing to do! I will concede that Hibernate or, even better, Hybrid is preferable for the reasons you state.

I haven’t actually timed the awake from Sleep vs awake from Hibernate but I suspect there is zero difference. I believe all differences are confined to the entry to the state since Hibernate first saves a memory image. But it does not have to restore that image since memory is kept alive during Hibernate just as it is during Sleep.

Not quite accurate. Entering Sleep state puts the system into a lower power state that preserves RAM. As you say, if power is lost during this time, the contents of RAM are lost and the computer must be re-booted.

Entering Hibernate state causes the system to write RAM to disk and puts the system into a much lower power state (virtually off) that does not preserve RAM. Upon receiving a wake-up signal, the RAM must be restored from disk, which is quicker than a re-boot but slower than waking from Sleep.

My preference is Hybrid. It works by writing RAM to disk and then invoking Sleep mode. Absent a power failure, a wake-up signal powers up the system with RAM intact, ready to go. If there has been a power failure the system performs a wake-up from Hibernate mode, restoring RAM from disk and is good to go.