SteadyState-Fixing-up made easy!

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July 6, 2008 ||

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Well, it’s hard to have the luxury of a really good free software from Microsoft. However, SteadyState is an exception. Not that it doesn’t come without a price. You need to have a genuine Windows OS to be able to use this software.

Let’s say you have been having long days without much adventure with your personal computer. I suffer from this problem and I keep flirting with my PC. However, sometimes I mess the shit up and have no one else to blame but me. Now, there’s a better way of trying to mess the shit up and feel safe to recover from it. SteadyState does exactly this. Let’s say you have been flirting with your PC and wanted to recover from it, and you realized that you never setup the Windows Restore option, or you recently deleted the restore points.

With SteadyState all this would be taken care off. More importantly let’s say you share your PC and at the end of the day you want to have it the way you gave it to the person. Just hit a button and you should be good. Let’s see how Microsoft describes SteadyState:

Share computers, not headaches

What state is your shared computer in at the end of the day?

Hard disk filled with downloaded files?
Strange options configured?
Programs installed that you don’t want?
System infected with viruses and spyware?
Computer bogged down for unknown reasons?

So this means you can restart your PC and have your favorite configuration back. Let’s see the features in details:

This is how the main window looks like:

The main components are marked by the Square brackets. You can hit the three global computer settings and set it up. The “Set Computer restrictions” screen looks like this:

The check boxes are self explanatory. The third setting under Global Computer Setting is Protect the Hard Disk. It looks something like this:

This one’s the most important setting you might want to look into if you want to mess some shit up someday with your PC or if you share your computer. I hope the scheduling window in future will include scheduling to bring your PC to a state you set it up. Say every night 12 you it can set your PC back to a particular state. Right now this window allows you to set SteadyState to manage your Windows Update Downloads.