Free : Comodo Time Machine

http://www.comodo.com/home/data-storage-encryption/data-recovery.php

This was recommended by another NBR member.

Why use Comodo Time Machine (CTM)?

Comodo Time Machine (CTM) is a powerful system rollback utility that allows users to quickly restore their computers to an earlier point in time. CTM 'snapshots' are a complete record of your entire system (including the registry, critical operating system files and user created documents).
Layered Security

* Schedule automatic snapshots to be taken at regular intervals
* Roll back to the last known working state in the event of virus attacks or crashes
* Take snapshots of your computer before large installations or system maintenance

Software Developers and testers can easily restore test systems to the default configuration after each deployment without the need to manually uninstall each application. Home users can even let the kids run amok on the family PC for an afternoon and be safe in the knowledge that any damage can be instantly undone and all files recovered.

Comodo Time Machine features an intuitive, friendly interface which offers quick and easy access to all functionality in the application. Additionally, it also features a sub-console that can be accessed before Windows starts and a Quick Operation console containing shortcuts to important and commonly executed tasks.

 

cool, thanks. I'll check it out.

 

Thanks a bunch. Was looking last night for an application of this genre.

 

For a second there the title made me laugh, I've been on CL-best of's too much recently it seems

There is a bunch of other free stuff on the site as well, anyone know the quality of their AV/firewall/encryption programs?

 

Been using their AV for a while now, only free one that works with Server 08 R2.

It's caught a couple potential threats, and malwarebyte says my computer is still clean.

I'll try this out.

 

I can vouch for their firewall. I use it on my laptop and it's quite good. Much more robust than ZoneAlarm and doesn't chew up my system resources to boot.

 

Everything's more robust than zone alarm nowadays, sadly..

 

I use the AV/Firewall/Defense+ suite.

The real gem of the suite is Defense+, if you're willing to put up with it. It basically alerts you anytime an unwhitelisted program does anything at all to read/write/modify your system. I've denied suspect programs access through Defense+ often enough that I swear by it. Be warned - it's annoying as hell to set up, tons of alert windows pop up anytime you install a new program. But once you're up, it's rock solid.