Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore's Automated PC Restore solution, drastically reduces computer maintenance, and is widely used to protect public access computers or shared computing environments, i.e. library public computers, school PC Labs, Internet cafes and training centers.
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore's protection is invisible; users feel as though they have absolute control over the PC. Regardless of what the PC user may attempt to do, delete files, install software or even modifying registry settings, the PC's will restore to their desired baseline settings everytime the PC's are restarted. Making the workstations perfectly configured and available for the next user.
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore PC restore on restart technology integrates Reboot & Restore, a technology designed to keep computers fully functional and optimally configured. Other functionalities include:
Restore on PC Restart or on Log-off
Restore on Idle PC
Restore on an hourly, daily or weekly schedule
Restore while maintaining a "Freeze Space" (area to save files and folders from restoration)
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore integrates Reboot-and-Restore, a simple technology designed to keep computers fully functional and optimally configured regardless of what the PC user may do.
"Simply Reboot, Restore and access a fully functional PC. Everytime."
With Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore onboard - our public access PC's are easily restored on every restart, or end of cruise...
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Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines International
Reboot to Restore Technology - Reduce Computer Downtime. Enhance The PC User Experience.
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore™ ensures workstation performance is at optimal levels by removing website cookies, spyware, temp files, viruses and unnecessary plug-ins; which cause system bottlenecks. Any infections to a "immunized" system are instantly eradicated - workstations are reverted back to their original configuration. Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore is widely used in many public access PCs and computing environment to ensure that PCs are perfectly configured and available, saving time, money and PC trouble. With Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore you can...
Restore PC's on every Reboot
Restore PC's on every Log-off
Restore PC's on Idle time (no mouse or keyboard input for xx minutes)
Restore on an hourly schedule
Restore on a daily schedule
Restore daily on first startup of day
Restore on a weekly schedule
Automatically accept OS and Anti virus updates
Restore while maintaining persistent data using Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore's "Freeze Space"
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore® Highlights
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore significantly reduces PC trouble shooting, repairing and restoring time to seconds!
Empowering PC support personnel to achieve tremendous savings of time and money on maintaining their computers.
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore doesn’t impact performance
Can be remotely managed and deployed (Enterprise console)
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore™ baseline snapshot takes less than 1% of total hard disk space.
Takes less than 3 seconds to update the PC's baseline.
Creates a new baseline without having to restart the PC.
Easily back out of a failed Software/OS or Anti-virus update.
Incorporates "Freeze Space" - a predefined area where files can remain persistent during restoration.
Highly configurable interface - hide program interface (stealth mode) from end users.
Offers flexible and powerful access control.
Supports Multi-boot PC's
Supports VM Ware
Consists of multi-partition protection selection.
Incorporates quick update of system baseline.
Offers detailed program operation logging.
Supports all industry standard deployment options.
Includes configuration during installation. Customizes the program upon installation.
Technology administrators use Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore to significantly reduce workstation maintenance. Drive Vaccine Drive Vaccine PC Restore restores systems to a baseline configuration. As a result, workstations can operate flawlessly for their entire life cycle. With Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore; technicians no longer need to perform rudimentary images or provide trivial workstation configuration support due to software or driver conflicts. This allocates more time for technical professionals to deal with more significant IT issues.
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore PC Restore is flexible and can be used to protect PC's in many different ways, and solves most public access PC related issues...
Set Acceptable User Policies
Put in force AUP's by guaranteeing that only approved applications are installed. When protected, Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore will not allow configuration changes or installation of any applications to remain on the workstations. This, in effect, blocks the installation of most illegal or unauthorized software.
Enhance The Computing Experience
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore does not restrict access and is transparent to users, giving them complete control of the machine and thereby enhancing the end user's experience - Giving them the ability to utilize complete system resources.
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore has a small, efficient footprint and takes up very little system resources, allowing your computers to perform at their optimum.
Eliminate Public Computer Downtime - Increase Total Cost of Ownership
Creative students, inexperienced staff or intentional hackers are all profiles of a public workstation user, typical of most computer labs, libraries and universities. Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore provides all user profile types with the same unrestricted system access. Regardless of what modifications or damages are made; all system settings, and applications are restored to original configurations upon restart. Thereby allowing user to make more use of workstations availability.
By minimizing workstation maintenance, administration time and troubleshooting - Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore reduces the total cost of ownership.
Virus, Malware and Identity Theft Protection
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore also provides robust virus protection. A simple reboot eliminates Trojans, worms and most viruses before they have time to execute or attack the system..
Users in a public access setting are susceptible to falling prey to identity thieves. Some may attempt to pre-install a key logger or some dangerous spy ware application. Other bandits may attempt to view your history, temporary files or worse - Your completed forms, which may contain personal information, user names, passwords etc. A system immunized by Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore insures users - that no information or installed applications remain. Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore erases any installed application, history settings, logs and temporary files from remaining on the public access workstation so your privacy is protected and personal information is not cached and saved on the system for prying eyes to see.
Enterprise Level Network Administration
The Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore client is a software application that is setup onto each PC that requires Drive Vaccine Baseline Restore Software protection. The Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore Client is the only application that is required to be installed on stand-alone PC's or PC's that do not require remote network management capabilities. For large networks that require remote administration your organization may use our Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore Enterprise Console (RMC).
Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore offers an additional Enterprise console for Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore - enabling administrators to configure all of the Drive Vaccine PC Restore client installations over a enterprise level remote management console. Simplifying the workload of the network administrator while providing all client-based functions on a remote console.
Features
Support for Windows 2000, XP, VISTA, Windows 7
Custom setup options
Advanced Setup with program configurations
Advanced Setup Configuration Wizard (ASCW)
Deploy with network shares
Deploy with client side scripts
Deploy with server side deployment software
Deploy with Windows active directory
Deploy with Ghost system images
Restore system from local sub O.S.
Restore system from local Windows
Restore system with batch files
"Freeze Space" for files/folders to be saved and not deleted on restores
Disable access control (password protection)
Built-in administrator account
Restore system on restart
Restore system on log off
Restore system on a one time schedule
Restore system on a daily schedule
Restore system on a weekly schedule
Restore system on a monthly schedule
Create a new baseline from the local sub O.S
Create a new baseline from local Windows
Create a new baseline with a batch file
Create a new baseline after Windows or Anti-virus updates
Formally known as Norton Ghost, Symantec Ghost® is the most popular computer system backup and imaging software. It allows users to make a copy of the entire system to an image file. The file can then be stored on CDs or network servers. In a case of disaster recovery, users can restore the image back onto the computer. The solution offered by Symantec Ghost is a slow solution, it takes several minutes or longer in most cases to create or restore the image file. The Ghost solution is a costly solution, the image file might be as large as the system itself or half of the system size in compressed format; However, compression takes a big toll on restore time. The Ghost solution is also a partial solution. Due to the amount of time and space required to create image files, it is impossible for users to create frequent backup image files. Therefore, in a case of disaster recovery, users are most likely to restore back to the date of initial P.C. setup condition. All the programs, files and data created afterwards are permanently lost.
Rapid Restore is the latest system recovery solution provided by IBM (now Lenovo) with their new PCs in attempt to replace the OEM recovery CDs. The software reserves a portion of the hard disk space to store a complete factory release image of the system. The reserved disk space is programmed as a hidden partition, inaccessible to most common users; however, an experienced user can remove the hidden partition easily. And thereby, leave the system unrecoverable. As a system imaging software, Rapid Restore shares the same deadly weakness with Symantec Ghost; it is only a partial solution. In a case of disaster recovery, users are set back to the initial factory release condition. All the programs, files and data created afterwards are permanently lost. Rapid Restore is also not rapid, as its name implies.. It takes many minutes to restore a system.
The hard drive recovery card was introduced over 25 years ago by many hard disk recovery card manufacturers in Asia. The Recovery Card was designed to protect PC hard drives from inadvertant user changes as well as automating the maintenance of PC's. Essentially these recovery cards maintained a consistant PC configuration on every restart... Initially, the primary difference between restore cards and recovery based software was, that on the recovery cards the software (firmware) is hard coded onto the actual card. In fact Drive Vaccine Reboot and Restore's birth originated as a hardware based recovery card. Many current hard drive recovery card manufacturers use the hardware card as a simple "dongle", as software piracy is still quite rampant in many developing countries. Read more about recovery cards at our corporate website.
Products under this category include Clean Slate (fortres grand), Drive Shield, D**p Fr**z*, Recovery Genius, HDD Sheriff and many others. These types of products deliver a basic "Restore on Reboot". These solutions works deep within the hard drive and OS drivers and freezes the PC's settings. Technically speaking, its technology is based on a hard disk sector filtering technique. These solutions reserve a portion of the hard disk space for redirecting the disk I/O commands. It allows users to keep the information in the protected space during restarts. It takes significantly less amount of space than the conventional imaging approach. Therefore, the time to restore is much less than Ghost or Rapid Restore. Everything seems ideal so far, until you need to make system updates. For this to happen you need to turn off protection, reboot and then perform your system updates (Windows critical updates, Anti-virus etc.) During these updates, there is no turning back. These methods of updates "Ratchet" the PC's forward with the updates. However, if your critical update causes your existing applications to crash, there is no way to go back. Reboot and Restore is an all-or-nothing proposition. This significant weakness has drove Reboot to Restore solutions away from advanced educational and corporate IT departments. Until recently "Restore on Reboot" technology was mainly valued as the primary solution for the publicly shared PC markets. Drive Vaccine Automated PC Restore Software takes this basic concept and adds more powerfull features taking public access computer protection to the next level.
Reboot-and-restore – a technique in which the disk of a computer is automatically wiped and restored from a "clean", master image, which should be in full working order and should have been swept for viruses. This is used by some cybercafes and some training and educational institutes, and helps ensure that even if a user does misconfigure something, downloads inappropriate content or programs, or infects a computer with a virus, the computer will be restored to a clean, working state. The reboot and restore process can either take place irregularly when a computer shows signs of malfunctioning, on a regular basis (e.g., nightly) or even, in some cases, every time a user logs off, which is the safest approach (although that does involve some downtime).
Provisioning new computers – Provisioning with a standard set of software so that a new user is ready to go straight away with a complete application suite and does not have to waste time installing individual applications. This is often done by original equipment manufacturers and larger companies.
Hard drive upgrade – An individual user may use disk copying (cloning) to upgrade to a new, usually larger, hard disk.
Full system backup – A user may create a comprehensive backup of their operating system and installed software.
System recovery – An OEM can provide media that can restore a computer to its original factory software configuration
Transfer to another user – A system sold or given to another person may be reset by reloading a known, previously-saved image that contains no personal files or information.
Reboot-And-Restore is an action to restore a PC system to a state where it before, only by reboot it. PC need to be restored because of some factors such as having problems, virus, trojan, spyware, cleaning the history and refreshing the system. Normally, after the reboot-and-restore process, a PC should clean and fresh as it just has been finished setup (off course, depend on what state it have been configured before.).
Symantec’s Norton GoBack 4.0 (no longer support Vista or Windows 7. Norton goback did allow you to easily undo PC problems. Restore your PC to a healthy state by going back minutes, hours, or even days (depending on available disk space). Also use Norton GoBack to restore files that have been deleted or modified, and to try new software safely.
Reboot-And-Restore (Drive Vaccine) is the preferred hard disk restore on reboot protection. Reboot-And-Restore (Drive Vaccine) instantly protects and preserves baseline computer configurations. No matter what changes a user makes to a workstation, simply restart to eradicate all changes and reset the computer to its original state - right down to the last byte. Expensive computer assets are kept running at 100% capacity and technical support time is reduced or eliminated completely. The result is consistent trouble-free computing on a truly protected and parallel network, completely free of harmful viruses and unwanted programs.
How about Windows System Restore? Windows System Restore could be found on Windows XP and Windows Me. It only can restore Windows files and it’s registry. It cannot disinfect virus, trojan or spyware from the desktop. In fact, the virus may be accidentally backed up because of this feature. It is good enough to solve light error related to Windows application. However, it is save to disable the System Restore if you are using Drive Vaccine PC Restore on Restart of Norton GoBack.
System Restore is designed to automatically monitor and record changes made to the core Windows system files and to the registry. System Restore can then allow you to undo (or "roll back") a change that caused instability in your system. This is accomplished by periodically recording a "Restore Point" (or System CheckPoint) that gives you the ability to roll your system back to the point in time when your computer was known to function properly.
Rebooting a computer has long been seen as one way to reset your computer in an attempt to resolve computer errors. The rebooting computer tips listed here expose some of the myths of what a reboot can actually fix and presents how the System Restore program can be a more effective way to re-establish a working computer configuration.
How many times have you heard someone say 'have you tried rebooting the computer' as a way to fix a computer issue? While it may be said jokingly, rebooting a computer can have some beneficial effects; especially if you have a good reboot and restore utility installed.
The restart will clear the RAM memory of all cached data. If you have a program with a threading bug then it is relatively easy for RAM to be unreleased once the program closes.
A computer reboot can also reset temporary settings for services and applications that may have become incorrectly set (it won't remedy more permanent settings that are stored to the Windows registry).
However if rebooting does not resolve your errors then try combining it with a system file restore. This can be done using Windows System Restore application. You can find this under Accessories/System Tools or using F5/F8 as the computer is rebooting.
What the tool lets you do is restore the computer's system files to a previous saved snapshot. On the upside, files such as the Windows registry are rolled back to earlier working versions and it does not affect any of your personal files (in My Documents). On the downside, system settings for applications installed after the snapshot date will be lost, potentially making these applications unusable (just reinstall them to resolve this).
In terms or rebooting computer tips, the System Restore tool is definitely worth considering when you experience virus damage to the registry or startup problems as a way of bringing your PC back to a working state.
Why Need Reboot-And-Restore?
State A : Just finished install and configure the Windows XP, MS Office and other application in a desktop PC.
State B : Configure the reboot-and-restore application
State C : Start uses the desktop PC.
State D : After sometime (may be after an hour, a day, a week or a month), the desktop got some problems or sign of virus or may be a registry error. The problem could be repair by using the anti-virus (if it is a virus infection) or windows scanreg (if it is a registry error). How about if the desktop still keeps showing the same problem again and again? So, it is an unrecoverable error in the desktop. The hard way to solve the problem is to reformat the hard disk and reinstall Windows and other application all over again. But fortunately, there is the reboot-and-restore application was installed. So just use the reboot-and-restore application to restore to State C. It only needs a couple of seconds to finished, and after that the desktop is a new as it just formatted. But beware! All files created after the state C will be deleted, and modified files will return to before it is modified.
Why Need Reboot-And-Restore in Internet Café's and classrooms?
The reboot-and-restore applications could solve many every day problems in the cyber café and classroom. It could save hundred of hours and money too. Every day, one desktop PC in a internet café are used by many people. Some use to surf the internet, play games, type documents, save some documents to the diskette and thumb drive, and download files from the internet and some just one to destroy the desktop! All of these activities could create trouble to the internet café business such as by spreading viruses, trojan or spyware to all desktop PCs in a matter of seconds and corrupted Windows. Sometimes, only one desktop PC infected by virus, but all PC in the whole internet café cannot access the internet!
So, how are we encountering the problems? Off course, use the reboot-and-restore application. Whenever a customer finish using a client, just restart the PC and the PC will back to the unproblematic state. Do you or your cyber café staff want go to each desktop every time customers finished their session? How about if there are 50 desktops in the internet café? Off course not. So, buy the right cyber café management software, which have the function to restart the client in one click, or restart the client every time customers finish their sessions.
Other advantage of using the reboot-and-restore application is the customers will not have any privacy issue. All of their work, documents, history and files in the desktop will be deleted automatically every time the desktop is rebooted.
