Many years ago I heard about Juzt-Reboot from a sales person. It is a hardware based recovery card which you fix inside your computer via PCI slot and it will provide instant recovery to your system or data. All you need to do is reboot, and every changes that you perform in the computer will be discarded. This is really good if you want to maintain your computer in a perfect and fast stage just like after performing a clean Windows installation.

Last year while I was browsing in a security forum, I got to know about PowerShadow which is a software based hard drive virtualization software. It works the same as Juzt-Reboot but it does not require a hardware PCI card. When I got to know that hard drive virtualization is possible through software alone, I searched and found a few more similar software but most of them are shareware.

Here’s one that is FREE and it works really well.

Returnil Virtual System is a powerful virtualization technology that completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the System Protection feature.

FREE Returnil Virtual System Premium Edition

The latest version of Returnil Virtual System 2008 was released about a month ago. There’s not really much of a difference if you compare the old Personal Edition version 1.7 with the new 2.0. New features were added to 2.0 but it is only available for Premium Edition which cost $24.95. However, I’d still advise to use the latest 2.0 version because it surely contains many improvements (codings and etc) which we don’t see it. Here are the advantages and disadvantages between the Personal and Premium edition.

 

 

USD 24,95

FREE*
System Protection Mode

Session Lock

Virtual Partition

Program Languages
Program Hot Key
Password Protection
Program Skin
Desktop Toolbar
Protection Scheduler
Session Saving

File Manager
Cache Method Choice

System Folder Relocation
Shell Extension Menu
Explorer Browsing
Drag & Drop Files and Folders
Free Customer Support

In short, it doesn’t matter if your computer is being attacked by virus, being hacked by hackers, or even you accidentally deleted the whole Windows folder, you can just restart your computer to restore everything to original state as if nothing ever happened. The good thing about Returnil Virtual System is it has the ability to create a virtual drive so you can save your changed or modified files there. If you’re using the Premium Edition, you can have the flexibility of saving your work or the entire folder.

No matter if you’re a basic or advanced computer user, this software can be used by anyone. If you only use the computer to listen to MP3s, surf the internet and send emails, Returnil Virtual System is suitable for you. Even if you’re a hardcore advance computer user that is adventurous in testing how virus works and etc, you can use it too! Please take note that disk virtualization software is not perfect. There are virus and trojan such as passdiskprotect_C, robodog and autoinf that can attack these software. Make sure you are always using the latest version.

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