help me make my computer super speedy

[Fred Elliot]

Well i'm gonna sound ultra smarmy now. Once i get my computer running sweet, i take a drive image and just reinstall the image whenever it starts to get on my tits. I also created about 5 images, for different operating environments, and just switch between them whenever i need to.

eh ?

[Barry Scott]

eh ?

Acronis True Image is what i use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronis_True_Image

It copies an entire drive, verbatim, and saves it to a file. Then you can swap to a new drive, or if you fuck up, reinstall the image on the same drive. It's like rolling back a system, except it removes everything on the drive and replaces it with the image previously taken.

I used to use it for running trial software. Install it, take an image, when the trial expires, reinstall the image = new trial. It takes about 10 minutes to create an image, and 5 minutes or so to reinstall one.

I presume that's what the eh? meant.