EAZ-FIX v91 Release Notes

Product:	EAZ-FIX
Version:	9.1.0
Build:	2694615056
Release Info:	EAZ-FIX v9.1 is an update release of the instant PC recovery software, EAZ-FIX v9.0, from EAZ Solution, it contains some minor updates and small bug fixes. For those who have EAZ-FIX v9.0 setup on a Windows XP or Windows Vista system, there is NO need to update. To install EAZ-FIX v9.1, user should first uninstall the existing EAZ-FIX setup. This Release Notes covers What’s New, What’s Fixed and Product Limitations.

What's New

The following are new features and updates in EAZ-FIX v9.1:

Windows 7 compatibility
Updated device drivers to support Windows 7 power management
New Windows 7 theme subsystem interface graphics
New Windows 7 theme application console interface graphics
Product activation during setup, one reboot for both setup and activation
Added a command line switch to disable/enable hourly snapshot defrag
Added a progress bar for take snapshot
Removed “Disable direct disk IO” from system security
Added a setup.ini configuration option for setup EAZ-FIX beyond 128GB of hard disk.
Added a setup.ini configuration option for setup EAZ-FIX on a Windows based server
Added a setup.ini configuration option for setup EAZ-FIX without hooking system page file
Disabled application console Windows resizing

What's Fixed

The following are problems and bugs fixed in EAZ-FIX v9.1:

EAZ-FIX fails to reset hard disk dirty bit after reboot the system during update baseline
Setup XML auto-detection failure on some systems
Memory leak caused by subsystem mouse driver

Product Limitations

The following limitations still exist in EAZ-FIX v9.1:

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.
Server Support – EAZ-FIX is a Windows workstation based product, it is not designed to work on Windows servers.
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.
Disk Encryption Programs that Intercept Low-Level Disk I/O – EAZ-FIX may conflict with some applications that proxy low-level disk I/O.
Compressed Drives – EAZ-FIX does not support NTFS DRIVE compression (EAZ-FIX does support NTFS file compression).
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.
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.
O.S. Upgrade - Before upgrading Windows O.S. such as upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7, you must first uninstall EAZ-FIX.