The Need For Reboot And Restore Software/Hardware

The importance of reboot-and-restore application in internet cafe that could makes your life easier and your Internet cafe business a success.

What is Reboot-And-Restore in PC system?

Reboot-And-Restore is an action to restore a PC system to a state where it before, only by reboot it. PC need to be restored because of some factors such as having problems, virus, trojan, spyware, cleaning the history and refreshing the system. Normally, after the reboot-and-restore process, a PC should clean and fresh as it just has been finished setup (off course, depend on what state it have been configured before.).

Currently, there are not many good reboot-and-restore applications in the market. I can only name two of its which is DeepFreeze and Norton GoBack. And in hardware category, I only found one that is JuztReboot. With DeepFreeze, you have the choice to freeze partition while Norton GoBack only could freeze one hard disk. But Norton GoBack run much faster and smoother than DeepFreeze which require more fast and high end desktop. On the other hand, you need to by JuztReboot card to use JuztReboot function.

Symantec’s Norton GoBack™ 4.0 allows you to easily undo PC problems. Restore your PC to a healthy state by going back minutes, hours, or even days (depending on available disk space). Also use Norton GoBack to restore files that have been deleted or modified, and to try new software safely.

Deep Freeze is the standard in bulletproof disk protection. Deep Freeze instantly protects and preserves baseline computer configurations. No matter what changes a user makes to a workstation, simply restart to eradicate all changes and reset the computer to its original state – right down to the last byte. Expensive computer assets are kept running at 100% capacity and technical support time is reduced or eliminated completely. The result is consistent trouble-free computing on a truly protected and parallel network, completely free of harmful viruses and unwanted programs.

How about Windows System Restore? Windows System Restore could be found on Windows XP and Windows Me. It only can restore Windows files and its registry. It cannot disinfect virus, trojan or spyware from the desktop. In fact, the virus may be accidentally backed up because of this feature. It is good enough to solve light error related to Windows application. However, it is safe to disable the System Restore if you are using DeepFreeze of Norton GoBack.

System Restore is designed to automatically monitor and record changes made to the core Windows system files and to the registry. System Restore can then allow you to undo (or “roll back”) a change that caused instability in your system. This is accomplished by periodically recording a “Restore Point” (or System CheckPoint) that gives you the ability to roll your system back to the point in time when your computer was known to function properly.

Why Need Reboot-And-Restore?

State A: Just finished install and configure the Windows XP, MS Office and other application in a desktop PC.

State B: Configure the reboot-and-restore application

State C: Start uses the desktop PC.

State D: After sometime (may be after an hour, a day, a week or a month), the desktop got some problems or sign of virus or may be a registry error. The problem could be repair by using the anti-virus (if it is a virus infection) or windows ScanReg (if it is a registry error). How about if the desktop still keeps showing the same problem again and again? So, it is an unrecoverable error in the desktop. The hard way to solve the problem is to reformat the hard disk and reinstall Windows and other application all over again. But fortunately, there is the reboot-and-restore application was installed. So just use the reboot-and-restore application to restore to State C. It only needs a couple of seconds to finished, and after that the desktop is a new as it just formatted. But beware! All files created after the State C will be deleted, and modified files will return to before it is modified.

Why Need Reboot-And-Restore in Internet Café?

As we can imagine from the above situation, the reboot-and-restore application could solve many everyday problems in the cyber café. It could save hundreds of hours and money too. Every day, every PC in internet café is used by many people. Some use to surf the internet, play games, type documents, save some documents to the diskette and thumb drive, and download files from the internet and some just one to destroy the desktop! All of these activities could create trouble to the internet café business such as by spreading viruses, trojan or spyware to all desktop PCs in a matter of seconds and corrupted Windows. Sometimes, only one desktop PC infected by virus, but all PC in the whole internet café cannot access the internet!
So, how are we encountering the problems? Off course, use the reboot-and-restore application. Whenever a customer finish using a client, just restart the PC and the PC will back to the unproblematic state. Do you or your cyber café staff want go to each desktop every time customers finished their session? How about if there are 50 desktops in the internet café? Off course it is not. So, buy the right cyber café management software, which have the function to restart the client in one click, or restart the client every time customers finish their sessions.

Other advantage of using the reboot-and-restore application is the customers will not have any privacy issue. All of their work, documents, history and files in the desktop will be deleted automatically every time the desktop is rebooted.

Conclusion

As the conclusion, a reboot-and-restore application is a must have in an internet café to save maintenance time, money and to keep trouble-free desktop PC. It is for you and your customers’ conveniences.