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EAZ-FIX v8.1 Release Notes |
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EAZ-FIX Professional |
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8.1.0 |
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2692397069 |
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Release Info: |
EAZ-FIX v8.1 is an update release of the instant
PC undo software, EAZ-FIX v8.0, from EAZ
Solution, it contains several major updates and
important bug fixes. EAZ-FIX v8.1 cannot be used
to upgrade an existing EAZ-FIX v8.0
installation. To install EAZ-FIX v8.1, user
should first uninstall the existing v8.0
version. This Release Notes covers What’s New,
What’s Fixed , Known Issues and Product
Limitations. |
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 What's New |
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The following are new features and
updates in EAZ-FIX v8.1:
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new and enhanced drive image feature replacing
the snapshot backup feature in EAZ-FIX v8.0.
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new drive image explore feature that allows
users to open a drive image file as virtual
drive to recover files.
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new feature to dismount virtual drives created
for drive image files.
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new media builder feature that allows users to
create bootable CD/DVD or ISO files to restore
drive image files.
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new drive image restore program based on Linux
Live CD.
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new feature for dynamically customizing and
loading program interface in other language
using a XML file.
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Expanded snapshot loading buffer. This greatly
improved the speed of auto restore. For example, in v8.0 restore a PC by
scheduled task - restore at restart - might take 10
seconds. In v8.1, it only takes 3 seconds.
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Compressed current snapshot table to improve
system boot up time and system performance (Our
internal test reveals 15-40% of performance
gain).
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Compressed archiving snapshot tables to improve
the performance of exploring a snapshot and
snapshot defragment.
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Added a post-rollback file recovery wizard that
prompts user to restore latest data file after
rollback to a previous snapshot.
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Added a program setting to set the
aforementioned post-rollback file recovery
wizard.
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Improved program logs buffer. In v8.0 when users
have a lot of logs, clicking on Event logs could
take a while for the program to respond. In
v8.1, event logs opens instantly.
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Added “Restart Now” or “Restore later” options
to the program activation process. If user
chooses “Restart later”, EAZ-FIX subsystem will
be activated during next restart.
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Added “Set system security” user access rights.
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Changed the product ID to a shorter all-digits
based product ID to better support non-English
speaking customers.
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Modified EAZ-FIX to auto-detect proxy server
settings if the software connects to a remote
management console thru a proxy server.
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Added a log file, netmsg.txt, to track product
activation related issues.
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Added a log file, client.dll.log, to track
problems related to connecting EAZ-FIX to a
remote management console.
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Reduced snapshot table’s delay write from 3
minutes to 1 minutes to improve system boot up
time.
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Change the time format
on the Uninstall screen from DD/MM/YY to MM/DD/YY.
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What's Fixed |
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The following are problems
and bugs fixed in EAZ-FIX v8.1:
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The buttons on Scheduled Tasks screens is
missing after change
the display DPI to 120 or higher.
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Scheduled task -
Snapshot at Restart - continues to
run after demo has expired.
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Scheduled tasks -
Event Based Snapshot - continues to
run after demo has expired.
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Deleting six or more scheduled tasks at once
produces a run time error.
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EAZ-FIX snapshot table’s delay write causes
Windows more prone to boot up problem such
as the corruption of c:\windows\system32\config\xxx
files after a power-outage or abnormal
shutdown. (The problem can be resolved by
restoring to a good known snapshot).
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EAZ-FIX snapshot table’s delay write causes
files more prone to damage after a
power-outage or abnormal shutdown. (The
problem can be resolved by restoring the files
from a good known snapshot).
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The combination of the following conditions
together could damage EAZ-FIX snapshots
other than the baseline snapshot.
A.
The computer has a hidden partition.
B.
Majority of the hidden partition (70% >) is
unused space.
C. The hidden
partition is protected by EAZ-FIX.
D.
The hidden partition has being opened as a virtual
drive by EAZ-FIX snapshot explorer.
E.
EAZ-FIX snapshot defragmenter has defragged the
hidden partition.
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A user with reset-to-baseline-rights logs
into EAZ-FIX console and finds Manage
Baseline feature is greyed-out.
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Windows Vista produces a NT blue screen when
entering hibernation.
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EAZ-FIX fails to detect SATA hard drive
serial number to validate authenticity of
license and cause extremely slow boot
up.
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EAZ-FIX setup fails with the error message
“insufficient disk space” when a) the hard
drive is larger than 200GB and b) the first
137GB of the hard drive are filled.
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Various typo and grammar errors in the
program interface.
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Known Issues |
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The following are known
issues in EAZ-FIX v8.1 release that will be addressed in
later release:
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It has been reported by a few beta users
that EAZ-FIX might cause Windows Vista PCs
unable to hibernate.
The reason is unknown. We have seen the
problem being fixed by users reinstalling
Vista OS on the PC. The practical workaround is to disable
hibernation feature on the PCs that's having
the problem.
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Setup EAZ-FIX on some PCs stops with “update
MBR failed” error. EAZ-FIX setup needs to
write to the computer’s Master Boot Record (MBR)
to install the pre-OS subsystem module. Some other
software on the PC is preventing the write
to the MBR.
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Product Limitations |
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The
following limitations still exist in EAZ-FIX
v8.1:
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Hard Disk Support – EAZ-FIX can only protect
one IDE/SATA/PATA hard drive. If a PC
has more than one hard disk, EAZ-FIX will
protect the drive designated as the
“Primary.” EAZ-FIX does not support SCSI,
RAID or MIRROR hard drive configurations.
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Server Support – EAZ-FIX is a Windows
workstation based product, it is not
designed to work on Windows servers.
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Booting From an External Media (OS) – EAZ-FIX
cannot protect the hard drive when changes
are made to the hard drive from an external
or foreign (non-Windows) operating system
bypassing EAZ-FIX protection drivers. For
example, booting from a CD-ROM will start a
different OS before EAZ-FIX is loaded, that
could change the hard drive without
acknowledging the existence of EAZ-FIX
snapshots on the hard drive and produce
unpredictable results.
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Disk Encryption Programs that Intercept
Low-Level Disk I/O – EAZ-FIX may conflict
with some applications that proxy low-level
disk I/O.
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Compressed Drives – EAZ-FIX does not support NTFS
DRIVE compression (EAZ-FIX does
support NTFS FILE compression).
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Dual Boot of Windows and Linux OS on the
Same Hard Drive – EAZ-FIX does not support
systems that have multiple Windows Operating
Systems with non-Windows Operating System
(like Linux) loaded on the same hard drive.
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Use of Defragmenter Programs – Once
installed, EAZ-FIX blocks the use of
defragmenter programs. The reason for
this is that EAZ-FIX tracks sector change
activity, relocates some sectors, and
maintains its own map of all sector
locations on the hard drive. Defragmentation
is the process of locating the noncontiguous
sectors of a file and rearranging the
sectors and restoring them into fewer
sectors. As a result, once EAZ-FIX is
installed, the work done by a
defragmenter program would not provide
the desired result without knowing the
sectors used by other snapshots. Thus,
defragmenter programs are blocked. The need
for a defragmenter varies according to file
system and the amount of file creation and
update activity on a hard drive. EAZ
Solution recommends that defragmentation be
done before installing EAZ-FIX. In addition,
EAZ-FIX has a build-in defragmenter as the
alternative.
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O.S. Upgrade - Before upgrading Windows O.S.
such as upgrading from Windows XP to Windows
Vista, you must first uninstall EAZ-FIX.
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