I don't know any way... Maybe it doesn't commit any change immediately - maybe after reboot, and if it has the cache full Data Corruption issues comes out when working. TTM and TTF together is not recommended by developer. But I use it together since I'm always in freeze mode; sometimes a BSOD comes out with TTM driver the culprit (not a problem to me however). Using only TTM (that is nice to test software or another thing that needs to reboot or to try it for some days), is not practical once their snapshots stay full (and deleted oldest) quickly. I don't believe TTM will have any update in future... Developer is working - and enjoying - with smartphones applications...
I've got a virtual machine that I want to make completely stateless with timefreeze. When it starts, can I set the timefreeze cache to 100% of the system freespace? Or does there need to be free space on the system to support operations that aren't cached? If so, what are those operations? Page file? What is the threshold for the timefreeze cache size. Up till now I have been setting the timefreeze cache to 1/2 of the free space under the assumption that the writes actually have to be done to free space and cached in the timefreeze cache. Unfortunately the result is that users don't understand why their apps crash due to out of disk space (in this case timefreeze cache) when they still have 1/2 their free space available. Also apps/windows can't warn the user because they think there is still plenty of disk space. I looked for documentation about timefreeze but came up empty so I'm hoping someone on the forum can help. Thanks in advance. A separate question but along the same topic, if a file is created and then deleted, is the net write to the timefreeze cache 0 or double? Thanks.
if a file is created and then deleted, is the net write to the timefreeze cache 0 or double? From my own experiments, I've learnt that if I create a file and then delete it, the TF's cache is increased on creation but not decreased on deletion. Unfortunately in the current version, there is no way to find how much cache has been used - so the net write to the TF's cache 0 or double cannot be exactly measured.
....... I'm having a question regarding Toolwiz Time Freeze 2017. How does it work if software is installed that needs a restart while Time Freeze is running ...?...
If the software is installed within a TimeFreeze-session, the software is not retained after a reboot. If software needs a reboot you can try to install it in a VM for testing it.
....... thanks for your replies. Can someone recommend a freeware for Windows 10 that can take snapshots other than RX Rollback Home ...?...
bjm_, any news regarding the new version of Toolwiz Time Freeze? What is changed between Time Freeze 2016 and 2017 other than some GUI cosmetics and a notice "Only free for non-commercial users"? Is there any changelog for the TF 2017?
There is a bug in this software. After installation with password protection You can simply run installation again and password can be simply changed/ protection removed without knowing previous password!
Hi Time Freeze 2017 (4.3.1.5000) in a frozen state on Windows 10 Professional (64bit Version 1607 Build 14393.1944) on a Lenovo V510z All in One PC with a Samsung M2 NVM SSD will produce a blue screen crash in Windows somewhere between 5 minutes and 7 hours after booting. The blue screen crash displays different errors. Sometimes it can be NTFS.sys or too many callbacks, or a couple of others. I modified the TF cache size and tried various drivers and Windows updates, but no change. A blue screen crash doesn't happen when Time Freeze is thawed, or when the same Windows image / configuration runs from a SATA drive. I have been able to repeat these fail / no-fail conditions on different computers and different NVM SSDs and isolated it down to the NVM SSD system. Has anyone come across this, or have any suggestions? Thanks. Justin
Hi, We use Time Freeze for our computer park. I encounter the following problem: several days after installing Time Freeze on our posts, many, in fact almost all, are disconnected from our network. They lose the relationship with the domain controller. Do you have this kind of problem? There is a solution ? Thanks in advance.
Hi there, I've installed the program, and after rebooting, I've received the message : Load Engine Error:Fail to Load the Settings! The system is frozen and I cannot turn the protection feature off. When I try to Repair or Remove it tells me: Note: Time Freeze Mode for Toolwize Time Freez 2017 is currently ON, you can not continue with the uninstall without turning the protection Feature OFF! what shall I do? Thanks
You can try to use a command line to active/deactive. From Toolwiz information: Code: To active the Time Freeze mode with command line, you can try this way: c:\xxx\ToolwizTimeFreeze.exe /freeze If you have set a password to protect the program, you can try this way: c:\xxx\ToolwizTimeFreeze.exe /freeze /usepass=mypassword To deactive the Time Freeze mode with command line, you can try this way: c:\xxx\ToolwizTimeFreeze.exe /unfreeze If you have set a password to protect the program, you can try this way: c:\xxx\ToolwizTimeFreeze.exe /unfreeze /usepass=mypassword This operation will reboot your system automatically To set the Time Freeze mode to be auto on with command line, you can try this way: c:\xxx\ToolwizTimeFreeze.exe /freezealways If you have set a password to protect the program, you can try this way: c:\xxx\ToolwizTimeFreeze.exe /freezealways /usepass=mypassword --------------------------------------------------------- To install the Time freeze to your pc with command line, you can try this way: c:\xxx\ToolwizSetup.exe /install /alwaysprotect=1 /reboot=1 /setpass=xxx /showtoolbar=1 /safemodequit=1 /cachesize=2000 then restart your computer to make the engine work. To uninstall the Time freeze from your pc with command line, you can try this way: c:\xxx\ToolwizSetup.exe /uninstall /reboot=1 then restart your computer to make the uninstall complete. -------------------------------------------------- To get the protect state with command line, you can try this way: c:\xxx\\ToolwizTimeFreeze.exe /check /usepass=mypassword you can read the flag in the Registry. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Toolwiz\TimefreezeNew CURRENT_PROTECT_MODE = 1 means Time Freeze is ON. NEXT_BOOT_PROTECT = 1 means next reboot, Time Freeze will be ON.
Hey, I was wondering if anybody knows of parameters to add Folder/File exclusion into installation (aka something along the lines of /exclude=FilePath). I know its not an .msi file and it might not be possible, however, I'm trying to automate my installations as much as I can and folder exclusion is a must for me. I appreciate any input.
@ KMTDOE3, I never seen some reference to such possibility. Off course it doesn't mean that couldn't exist indeed. Good luck to you.
Be Warned - TTF's Folder Exclusion doesn't work if a power failure occurs. I lost a lot of work just today
@ Optimistic, I sorrow the annoyance you had today - that is a undesirable and very problematic for a user! Your advice will be useful for some users that uses the 'Folder Exclusion' option. I never use 'Folder Exclusion' option, since I use 'Junctions' to my Data Partition (D:\) - like you can read here. Maybe you can't yet use a Data partition [I remember this your post about], with junctions (that works like a charm to avoid such kind of troubles - and allows a clean System Drive ever, like I use TTF in frozen mode always).
Actually this disaster happened on an other OEM built system where data partition was not made. Literally creation of separate partition is sometimes not possible especially on SSDs where storage space is very scarce. Secondly TTF does accept folder exclusion even in frozen mode - thus makes it possible any folder/file on system can be written.
I really understand your point - and since I never used SSD and when their "storage space is very scarce" the annoyance when "a power failure occurs" it's indeed your advice just relevant!
Any good and free for non-commercial alternative of TTF ? I've found it quite unreliable on Win10 - especially on newer updates But for Win7, if we are careful for cache full issue, and don't let the system power failed, TTF works fine.
Ah, same happened on an old version of Shadow Defender v1.4.0.668 Have the newer versions of SD got this issue fixed ? I think a lot of source-code of SD and TF is same behind the GUI. So why has something with similar functionality but open-sourced yet not come out ?
running TF since today and I am really happy, for me its clone\identical to sd but it protects 1 drive @Optimistic why not save all the stuff direct to pendrive, they make large ones and they resemble disks in size/speed, all this file saving is not reliable with light VT, especially if its "work'' I would never trust SD or TF to save anything properly, with documenst its ok but not other stuff, needless to say (I hope) use the pendrive with a virtual machine after not real system and commit small files at a time (if they committ\save badly u still have it on the pendrive u know what I am saying?)
PenDrives/MemoryCards are much more vulnerable to wear & tear than the SSDs. I've faced disasters of loosing even whole 32GB data in past and now too much afraid to trust PenDrives for such purpose @lucd - by the way why you swtched from SD to TF ? SD has so rich options - and even the option of commit changes any time you want. Alas! TF lacks it Even the files/folders in TF exclusion list are not commited right away - they are committed only when the system is properly shutdown. In between if a power failure occurs or system is crashed - the data is lost.
