Comodo Time Machine should go burn in a really, really large fire. | Gen-Tech | Forums

So just because curiosity got the best of me (I never intended on keeping the program because of Comodo's privacy issues – just install and see what it is all about) I installed Comodo Time Machine earlier today. After just poking around, I decided I had enough and proceded to uninstall it. I could not find an uninstall entry in RevoUninstaller – which really ticked me off – but I just Googled to see how to uninstall Comodo Time Machine so it wasn't that big of a deal. After uninstallation, I am told I need to restart my computer – fine, I did that (albiet not directly after it told me).

During reboot, Comodo's boot environment launches and tells me is "uninstalling". I let it do its thing. It does its thing and restarts my computer. After the restart, to my amazement and frustration, I am unable to load Windows; I get past my initial screen and when the "Windows is loading" or similar message is supposed to show, I just get a black screen. I instantly suspect something is up, yet try to level best to try to load Windows (multiple restarts, trying to force boot into safe mode which my laptop never seems to be able to do, etc.). The darn thing just doesn't work. As I realize that I may have to reformat my computer, I try a last ditch attempt to pop in my Windows CD and repair boot/do system restore. Repairing boot does not work, and it turns out that I had no restore points to use (either I just cleared my system restore points recently or something was wrong, I don't know).

As I start cursing underneath by breath, I recall that I had just backed up my whole hard drive to an external hard drive for the purposes of reviewing Paragon System Backup. I count my blessings until I realize I had not created bootable media which would allow me to restore my snapshots. The irony is I had a whole paragraph in my Paragon System Backup review on how "human stupitidy" often got in the way of programs such as when people refused to create bootable media. (In my defense, though, I didn't create bootable media because I never intended on keeping/using Paragon System Backup.) Anyway, once I concluded that I would either have to reformat (and risk losing all my data… including my important data) or I could restore my hard drive via Paragon System Backup's snapshot, I decided upon the later and quickly went to create a bootable USB drive from another computer. So then I go through all the motions, and 1-1.5 hours later my computer is back to pre-Comdo Time Machine state and all is well.

Now – possible privacy issues aside – for me to make a blanket statement about "how back CTM is" based on one incident would not be fair because it could have been a one-time incident, and there could have been factors out of CTM's control that caused it (I just don't know). However, between Paragon System Backup's review and changing servers for dotTech, I have had 4 maybe 5 hours of sleep today. Combine that with the fact that I could have been watching the latest episode of Lost during the time it took me to restore from the snapshot, all I have to say is Comodo Time Machine should do burn in a really, really large fire.

/Rant

So, on a happier note, how is everyone doing today?

Locutus said:Now see, this is why we need a rant forum. 

I think I am going to pwnz somez n00bs in LoL.