Restore Point Creator

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Restore Point Creator 1.9 Build 1

Added the ability to keep only a specified amount of restore points on the system. This makes it so that if you have a setting a 12 restore points and after making a new restore point your system now have 13, the program will delete the oldest restore point to keep the amount of restore points on your system to a count of 12.
Created a custom user input box for the creating of custom named restore points when using the Jump List Tasks or the “My Computer” right-click context menu.
Added a trademark notice regarding Windows and Windows System Restore indicating that those terms are trademarked by Microsoft Corporation.
Fixed crash issues with managing disk space usage by the restore point sub-system.

Restore Point Creator 1.9 Build 2

Fixed an issue in which the automatic update routine may not run.
Automatic update checks are now triggered to be executed every seven days.

Restore Point Creator 1.9 Build 3

Added the ability to control the automatic updates interval. The default setting is every 7 days. You can configure it for 7 days, 14 days, or a custom value.
Fixed a rather dumb bug in which when creating custom-named restore points from the jumplist tasks don’t work.

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Restore Point Creator 1.9 Build 4

Fixed it so that the Please Wait window can’t be closed by using the window’s X button in the upper right-hand corner of the window. Only the thread that spawned the Please Wait window can close the window.
Fixed a minor issue in which the button to create a custom-named restore point was re-enabled when it shouldn’t have been re-enabled.

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Restore Point Creator 1.9 Build 5

Fixed a crash at startup. This was caused by an order of operation issue in which the program was trying to access a Registry Key before it was created.

Restore Point Creator 2.0 Build 1

Included a link to Instructional Videos page on the product web site.

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Portable Restore Point Creator 2.0 Build 1

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Restore Point Creator 2.1 Build 2

Minor improvement to the Disk Space Usage window in which a perceived performance improvement of the tool should be noticed. The reason this is so is because all loading of the data for display was being done on the main window thread thus if for whatever reason be it having to wake up an HDD to get volume data or anything else, the program may appear to have frozen or locked up. The loading of the data for display has been moved to a separate processing thread so as to make sure that the program will not appear to have locked up while loading the data.

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Portable Restore Point Creator 2.1 Build 2

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Restore Point Creator 2.1 Build 3

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Portable Restore Point Creator 2.1 Build 3

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Minor improvements have been made to the changes contained in Build 2.

 

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Restore Point Creator 2.1 Build 5

Minor improvements to the “My Computer” right-click context menu entries in which now there are appropriate program icons associated with the entries instead of a blank icon (on Windows XP) or a UAC shield on Windows Vista or newer.
Renamed the “Create Custom Named System Restore” menu entry to “Create Custom Named System Restore Point”.
Added “Launch Restore Point Creator” as a new menu entry to launch Restore Point Creator from the “My Computer” right-click context menu.

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Restore Point Creator 2.1 Build 6

Minor improvements to the task scheduler. The “Save Max Age” routine has been added to the “Save Task” routine so you don’t have to press two buttons. In the future, if you want to change the “Max Age” setting you can do so by just clicking on the “Save Max Age” button.
Added a “Set Bar Color” under Program Options on the main window.
Changed “Program Options” to “Program Options/Settings” to be more clear about what it is.

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Restore Point Creator 2.1 Build 8

This is a minor update to build 5 and 6, this is not a mandatory update. Fixed minor bug to the manual fix button’s routine on the Drives with Full Restore Point Reserved Space window in which it was making the Manage System Restore Storage Space window appear but not loading the data for the pre-selected drive. This has been fixed. Added a Please Wait window to the routine that loads the restore point list so that the user won’t think that the program just locked up.

Restore Point Creator 2.1 Build 9

This is a minor update to build 5, 6, and 8, this is not a mandatory update. Minor improvement to the Disk Space Usage window in which there is a “Manage” link for the Manage System Restore Storage Space window that will load and pre-select the drive for which you clicked the “Manage” link for.

Restore Point Creator 2.1 Build 10

Performance improvements have been done to the Manage System Restore Storage Space window in which on some machines the initialization phase of the window may take a long time to complete.
A fix has been put into place by changing how and where the program is loading the data.
Loading specific drive data has been given a Please Wait window so the user will now know that the program is working on something and hasn’t just locked up. This is the first mandatory update since Build 5.

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Restore Point Creator 2.2 Build 2

Fixes a major issue on Windows 8/8.1 systems in which drives were being dropped out of the My Computer listing of drives. This was due to something that was added back in version 2.1 Build 1 that had unintended side-effects.
This new version includes the removal of that code as well as a fix to remove the added Registry entries that were added by the removed code. This should resolve the drive drop-outs on Windows 8.

Restore Point Creator 2.2 Build 3

Minor improvement to the fix included in Build 2. After the fix is applied the program is now instructed to ask the user to reboot his/her computer.

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Restore Point Creator 2.2 Build 4

This build makes it so that you don’t get a message about you already having the latest version during program startup. Normally it should have only informed you if you had a new version to download, not if you already had the latest version.
Some minor tweaks to the code in how version strings are being parsed have also been implemented.

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Restore Point Creator 2.2 Build 5

This is a minor update to build 4. The AutoFix routine on the Drives with Full Restore Point Reserved Space window now gives more details as to what exactly it did. Is now displays the old size, the new size, and how much it increased the old size by.
Upgraded the development environment from Visual Studio Express 2012 to Visual Studio Express 2013.

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Restore Point Creator 2.2 Build 6

Fixed a possible crash on the Disk Space Usage window in which it doesn’t handle an Unauthorized Access Exception gracefully. Code has been put into place to catch the exception and skip the drive if this particular exception is raised.

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Restore Point Creator 2.2 Build 7

This is a minor update to build 6. Removed something from view that shouldn’t have been visible on Windows XP machines. Included a notification for Windows XP users that will appear after April 8th, 2014 notifying them that Microsoft has pulled official support for Windows XP. I have mentioned in the notification that the program will continue to function as intended on Windows XP past April 8th, 2014 but that I (the developer) strongly encourage the user to upgrade to (at the very least) Windows 7

Restore Point Creator 2.2 Build 9

Fixed a crash on the Disk Space Usage window that was caused by what I’m embarrassed to admit as a very dumb mistake in the code.

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Restore Point Creator 2.2 Build 10

This is a minor update. Fixed an annoying cosmetic issue on the main window in which the Restore Point Name textbox didn’t go back to grayed-out box with the text “Type in a name for your custom-named System Restore Point…” in it in all situations when it lost focus. This should have been the case but for whatever reason it didn’t always do it in rare occasions.

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Restore Point Creator 2.2 Build 12

Included code in the application initialization phase to check the startup mode of the Volume Shadow Copy System Service. If the System Service’s startup mode isn’t Manual the program is instructed to set the startup mode to Manual. Normally this shouldn’t ever have to be repaired but for whatever reason there have been a number of people who have had a Windows error code 0×81000202 which seem to point to the System Service being disabled. Code has been put into place to try and correct this.

Restore Point Creator 2.2 Build 13

Reworked some of the System Service startup mode manipulation code. If you have the problem mentioned in Build 12′s changelog, you will have to download a new copy of the program and install it over the existing installation as versus getting the update through the program. Once you have the new version, launch Restore Point Creator as normal and the program will correct the problem for you and ask you to reboot your machine.

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