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It sounds good, but, SafeInstall will NOT work for Windows NT
users.
inctrl3.zip is a free utility from PC Magazine that just reports
all system changes after an install, which lets you undo manually
if you have a backup from before the install.
The utility should be available from
http://www.pcmag.com/download/dl-home.htm
Joseph Biran
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM [mailto:bmaltz@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 8:33 AM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx; hacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Dark Hacker's software problem
To all of you with unexpected software glitches that occur AFTER
installing a new program, you
might want to consider getting a copy of a shareware program
called SafeInstall from the
following URL:
http://www.iwinsoftware.com
I am NOT affiliated with this company, although I did purchase a
license for this Shareware (yes
the shareware concept does work). This program sits in the
background and monitors your system
files and notifies you when system files are overwritten by
another copy of the same filename.
It first stores a backup of the file that was overwritten and
then presents you with each of the
2 files' date of origin, date of modification/installation (on
your system), file size, and
version number. You then compare file info and determine if the
newly installed file is
actually newer than the "old" file. Check out this program. It
saved my butt recently when I
installed a demo version of Bill Williams' Investor's Dream. The
I.D. demo overwrote 2 system
files (one of which was actually an OLDER version of the file I
already had installed on my
computer. SafeInstall gave me the opportunity to replace the
newly installed OLDER version with
the NEWER version that had been on my system before installing
the I.D. software.
Because I often test new programs on my PC, I don't know how my
system (without a program like
SafeInstall) survived so long without getting totally corrupted.
Anyway, good luck with you software installations.
Ben Maltz
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