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<title><![CDATA[By: DavidW]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/genie-timeline-home-2-1/#comment-117126</link>
<description><![CDATA[Very nice backup program! I only wish I'd bumped into it earlier.

So far my only big wish-list item would be a more user-friendly way to browse docs during a restore. Many of the users I support don't know where their docs live, so providing a direct link to "my docs", libraries, etc. would be helpful. Overall though the program looks promising and I guarantee it'll land on customer systems.

Good job! (both to Genie-soft and GoTD)]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:42:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: NickR]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/genie-timeline-home-2-1/#comment-117125</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ben #87 - try freeware prog 'TrueCrypt'. Not only can you encrypt files and folders, you can encrypt your entire system drive. If someone steals your pc they won't be able to access any of your data without a password.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:49:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: lovesoccer]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/genie-timeline-home-2-1/#comment-117124</link>
<description><![CDATA[During install balloon messages were going off and it looked like it was getting really deep into my system--made me nervous. I then initiated a test backup. 

I personally like the ease of use and the interface is ok to me. However, I was disappointed I couldn't figure out how to customize my backup jobs. I know what I want to back up but couldn't figure out how to selectively add paths and files (e.g. Outlook command bar, menu customizations, nav pane settings, the drop-down previous address list; office dictionary; etc).

I like the snapshot approach, VSS implementation, and slow/turbo modes for backing up. 

Today, the day after, my system feels sluggish. GTP is still working on my initial test backup job in non-turbo mode that I initiated last night (I selected system and office to backup--I got gobs of stuff but couldn't tell how many GB it was backing up, just # of files [~15K IIRC]).

In light of that I couldn't figure out how to customize which files to backup, concerns over the depth of system integration, and sluggish computer performance (which, again, I could not definitively attribute to GTP), I decided to uninstall. 

For non-DR backup (non-partition imaging, boot record, etc) I've not yet tried Paragon or Acronis or Macrum. I use BeyondCompare for my data backups and may look into creating and schedule jobs. What I will miss from GTP is no versioning backup, minimal performance impact, loss of copying open files (via VSS) and partial PST data copy as mentioned in comments above.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:48:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Scott]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/genie-timeline-home-2-1/#comment-117123</link>
<description><![CDATA[I really don't like the fact that you can't terminate the program by right-clicking the tray icon. There were 4 or 5 processes I had to delete from the task manager to get it to stop.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:12:42 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: selkar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/genie-timeline-home-2-1/#comment-117122</link>
<description><![CDATA[@guppy

Try running the backup job in Turbo mode and leave it running overnight to finish the initial backup. After the initial backup finishes consecutive backups will take not time and will have no impact on system performance.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:05:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: selkar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/genie-timeline-home-2-1/#comment-117121</link>
<description><![CDATA[@JP stone

Timeline does not cause my Chrome browser to hang its working fine. Try checking for an update]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:52:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Phaedron]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/genie-timeline-home-2-1/#comment-117120</link>
<description><![CDATA[To MarkACraig#89 - what in the word 'Day' do you not understand?
If, upon further reflection, you come to understand what is going on with these limited free giveaways, then you will also understand that no commercial software developer can afford to give away an unlimited number of free licences.
That's not how this effort/reward universe works, is it?
Finish up with your own thoughts on the ideas inherent in the words teaser, trial, evaluation, marketing strategy.
FWIW I'm having shell troubles too, with Explorer (rather than Windows Explorer)(the former is Windows itself, the GUI) crashing with a rightclick. So now it's off to the developer's site to see what they can offer in the way of solutions.  Win7.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:42:26 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/genie-timeline-home-2-1/#comment-117119</link>
<description><![CDATA[#51, James Smoksweedington, I've previously listed some of the numerous reasons for using the Microsoft Installer.  It was required (or ClickOnce) prior to Windows 7 for Windows Logo certification.  The MS Installer handles rollback during or after installation very cleanly via System Restore (i.e., it sets a Restore Point prior to installation).  It can repair installations, when used correctly it's much better at handling software updates than most other installers, it can install and uninstall components on-the-fly as needed, etc.

There are a number of freeware MSI developer tools, there's WiX, etc.  The commercial Caphyon Advanced Installer is popular (and it was on Bits du Jour some time ago).  A crippled free version of Advanced Installer is available.  Advanced Installer addresses the issues raised by #27, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi.  The MS Installer may be slower than others because it does set a System Restore Point and it maintains critical Registry entries and other system files which some other installers appear to mess up.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:55:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: selkar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/genie-timeline-home-2-1/#comment-117118</link>
<description><![CDATA[@John

Just wanted to point out that Timeline also does Incremental/differential Disaster Recovery backups of your system.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:54:13 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Mark A. Craig]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/genie-timeline-home-2-1/#comment-117117</link>
<description><![CDATA[This product is apparently poorly designed and incompletely tested for conflicts.  It conflicts with one or more of my shell extensions, such that I can no longer open Windows Explorer, AT ALL, not even My Computer: it just sits there and thrashes the disk(s) perpetually without ever even displaying the Explorer GUI.  I tried terminating the processes and stopping the service, but that alone isn't enough to stop the behavior; in a moment I will be rebooting with the service disabled to see if I regain some Explorer functionality, then I will be uninstalling this product.  At that point the Giveaway-of-the-day offer will have been over, so I presume I won't even be able to reinstall it later, since the EXE actually checks with the site to verify legitimacy before proceeding, and since I also can't request support then I'm simply left having to declare this software to be the entire cause of the problem and give up on it.

This was the first Giveaway of the Day offer I had actually downloaded and installed, and now that I can see how it functions it will also be my last.  I have no interest in anything that I can only install ONCE and which will instantly become useless the moment I need to reinstall it for any reason.  This is not a kind of "free" that I appreciate.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:30:14 -0400</pubDate>
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