Restore Point Creator 6.5 Build 1
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Restore Point Creator is a lightweight and easy-to-use application that was designed to help you restore the system to an early state using the existing restore points. You can also create new ones and personalize them by adding a specific description to each of them. In case there are some restore points that are no longer needed, with the help of Restore Point Creator you can delete them.
Restore Point Creator simplifies the way users create system restore points with the help of Windows' default features, putting additional handy options at their disposal such as a task scheduler.
Hassle-free installation and user-friendly interface
After a brief and uneventful setup procedure, you are welcomed by a standard window with a simple structure, representing Restore Point Creator's interface. It is not particularly attractive but easy to work with.
Easily create new checkpoints
In order to create a system restore point, you can either write a preferred description or apply the default name to speed up the job. We have noticed that it is carried out quicker than using Windows built-in options.
Examine checkpoint information, delete entries and schedule tasks
Restore Point Creator displays a list of all current restore points, along with descriptions, dates of creation and restore point type, such as the installation or removal or an application or Windows Update.
It is possible to delete selected points with the simple click of a button, as well as to schedule additional ones for creation or deletion. In addition, Restore Point Creator enables you to view and manage system restore storage space, as well as to open and view a log file which contains details pertaining to deleted checkpoints.
Evaluation and conclusion
The straightforward piece of software is light on the system resources, using minimum CPU and RAM. It has a good response time and didn't hang, crash or pop up error dialogs in our tests. All in all, Restore Point Creator delivers a simple and effective solution to managing system restore points, especially if you do not have enough PC experience to accomplish this goal by resorting to the Windows' integrated features.
Release Notes
It's been a month since a major new version has been released and this version is chock full of bug fixes and performance improvements. This is the first version of System Restore Point Creator to require version 4.6 of the Microsoft .NET Framework. And now for the long list of changes...
Included code to get the parent process.
Included code to elevate the priority if the program was auto-elevated by the Task Wrapper.
Made it so that the update notification window is the top most window.
Fixed an InvalidCastException that could be thrown due to an incurrent use of the "+" where a "&" should have been used.
Changed the way that the application stores application log data from the Windows Event Log to its own log file format.
Fixed the checkByFolderACLs() function, it was failing to check to see if the user group that the user belongs to was allowed access.
Changed the order in which errors are logged. The error is logged first then the exception data.
Added a check to see if the program is running as the SYSTEM user and if so the path access check function will always return True.
Included a command line switch for debugging log file writing.
Added some additional checks to the program update routine to check for the existence of an already existing new application binary file.
Fixed a bug on that only occured on Windows 7 systems in which the areWeRunningAsATask() function would incorrectly return a False value.
Fixed a bug in the runtime task setup in which there were double log entries.
Added an additional update channel check if you are running a beta version.
Added sorting to the Mount Volume Shadow Copy tool's listbox.
Added the ability to save the sorting order for the Mount Shadow Copy tool.
Added code to disable the Stable Update Channel if the current version is a Public Beta or Release Candidate version.
Included better and cleaner OS version detection code.
Included a call to the sort command in the getNewestSystemRestorePointID() function.
Improved and optimized the code of the getRestorePointName() function by no longer requiring a For-Each loop.
Added the inclusion of the error code for FileLoadException types along with some other fixes.
Transitioned the program from using version 4.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework to version 4.6.
Removed a lot of low level API calls to determine if a user is part of the Administrator group and replaced it with much simpler native .NET API calls.
Updated the embedded Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler library.
Fixed a bug on the form that allows you to manually submit crash data that could cause a program crash if you didn't fill in the "What were you doing at the time of the program crash?" section.
Fixed a bug on the Crash Submission Form that could cause a program crash if you didn't fill in the "What were you doing at the time of the program crash?" section.
Removed a dependency on a third party DLL to work with ZIP files since Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.6 has support for working with ZIP file.
Removed the last bits of code that supported Windows XP.
Added code to detect Windows XP and tell the user that the program will now terminate.
Converted the storage of the log entry date to a raw Data Object instead of converting to a UNIX timestamp. Existing log entries will continue to use the old UNIX timestamp but any new log entries will use the new format.
As stated before, development of the program will be considerably slowed down. I don't have nearly the same amount of time that I used to have to keep a heavy active development cycle like what I had before with a 15 day release cycle.
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