I read with fascination how Mike Wood tried patiently to explain how things worked. And it seems that more often than not, he got the traditional FUD from many people. It was because of Mike’s persistence that I decided to download this giveaway.

This is an incredible piece of software!!!

YES! You do have to remember to save the stuff you want to save to the virtual drive. My kids can only use the computer while Returnil-ized. It has saved so much time and effort because the deeper the crap they get into, the easier the power button makes the problems just vanish.

It is soooo fast toooo!

Again – Thanks to Returnil, Mike Wood, and the GAOTD team.

http://www.download.com/Returnil-Virtual-System-Personal-Edition/3000-2144-10704691.html?part=dl-ReturnilV&subj=uo&tag=button

Great APP.

the bad thing is I got the

returnil error:
149011 (0xC000043)
189037 (0xC000043)

and i dnt wanna remove my firewall from the startup :( but ill try to c if its the real cause (comodo pro its good for advanced users & freee)
thanks for the HELPFUL comments posted here, coz a lot of them are just childish complaints. Great prog!
hope that helped if u got to read this comment.

returnil error:
149011 (0xC000043)
189037 (0xC000043)

and removed Picasa from my startup and solved the problem.

Other disk intensive startup programs would probably have the same effect.

Cons:
Issues with this software. I still like to test as some have stated on this page under enviroments such as VMware. When running this under a simple VM session I received the following errors:

returnil error:
149011 (0xC000043)
189037 (0xC000043)

Then it says the security settings have changed when they have not. I haven’t had the chance to see why this is happening but this is an issue because once I received this issue it has yet to work again when I started testing with it again.
Other then this issue I have not seen anything wrong with this product as of yet. Keep up the good work guys!!!

posted. I did not intend to offend you or berate the program, just highlight the implications to those who were new to such a concept – as I say, everyone else when the program is offered normally would understand as they would be purposefully looking for such a utility.

I wish you all the very best with your software and future programs, I certainly never intended my original post to upset (for want of a better word) you in any way or to contradict what you are trying to do. I admire your fight against malware and would actually be happy to advertise your program on the technical part of my site if you so wished. I get many questions about viruses etc and also offer a service to recover people’s data for them in such an event so this would be appropriate to the site.

Finally, my last suggestion about building a beep into the program is one that, personally, I do think would be very helpful. If you had a short beep each minute which is on by default on start-up of the program but could be manually switched off after (so that people would have to deliberately disable it showing they know the implications) then this would be an alert that would not be missed by sight. In addition to the visual signals you already have in place, I think an audible alert would further help to prevent people forgetting the program’s protection was on which is a real possibility for any user, seasoned in partitions and the like or not.

Thanks again for your replies Mike, may I take this opportunity to wish you all the very best with your program and future developments and if you would like me to add your banner to my site then let me know.

Best wishes,

Merril

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your reply. Mike, I understand that this program is very useful indeed, I downloaded a copy to a USB drive so that I can use it without accidentally leaving it on (I know that that would be something I would do having had to retype Caps Locked text on very many occasions!!) and it very much reminds me of how the local library runs their computers; at the end of their users’ time, the computer automatically reboots and nothing they save to the system partition stays at all. Invaluable for such a purpose and also invaluable for a variety of tasks for all computer owners worldwide as your example uses protray.

My first post was not intended in any way to be “martyr”like, I just know how many people download from here and switch on regardless – they know the programs are mal/spyware and virus free and therefore know that nothing will harm their computer – whilst this in no way would harm their system either, without understanding of the purpose of the program, data loss is a real possibility which people risk overlooking.

I don’t comment on every piece of software and when I do, I genuinely do not do so to contradict any piece of software’s worth. I know through my own sites, products and programs that some people just cannot see good in anything and seem genetically programmed to complain needlessly, actively seeking out perceived flaws so that they can portray everything negatively. I actually normally only ever have good things to say about programs as archived records show, on this occasion and having seen so many comments in the past from people who do religiously download regardless as well as comments not understanding the software, I did feel that on some the definition of virtualisation was being lost which is why I

Hello Ben and anyone else with a similar issue,
Please contact us directly using the contact us form on our site and we will assist you with the re-install.

With Kind regards
Mike