NEW FEATURES IN PC TOOLS GOLD (V9)

1.  New Central Point Recuperator (CPR)

Central Point Recuperator is an all-new utility that 
automatically and periodically saves the state of your PC's CPU 
and memory so you can restore the system in case of a crash, 
lock up or power failure.  If such a crash occurs, you reboot 
the system and, if you desire, CPR will attempt to restore your 
system (including data files intact) to the same state that 
occured when it was last saved.  Saves are done on timed 
intervals and only during "idle" periods to minimize 
disruption to your work.

Setting up Recuperator


Setup Procedure:

*	Enter CPRECUPE /SETUP on the DOS command line.
Recuperator Setup asks if you are ready to reboot your machine 
so that it can write a configuration file for it. Choose OK to 
reboot the machine.

*	After Recuperator reboots the machine, you see a series
of four dialog boxes that ask for information or provide
progress information about the installation process.

Select Drive
Asks you to choose the drive where you want to store the system 
image files. These files require as much disk space as you have 
RAM on your system, including video and LAN card RAM, and 24 KB 
of overhead space, plus a maximum of 128 KB for the FAT of each 
local hard drive and compressed volume.

Enter Windows Directory
Asks you to enter the name of your Windows directory, if you 
have one. If you have a directory called WINDOWS in your path, 
Recuperator Setup assumes that this is your Windows directory.

Create Startup Files
Asks if you want to create the configuration file now, or edit 
the configuration choices before you save it. Accept the default 
configuration unless you know that your system has unique 
requirements. You can tune the configuration later to change 
hotkeys and other settings.

Recuperator Setup adds lines to your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS 
files so that it is loaded when you boot your system. 

Building Files
Shows that the configuration file and saved system file is being 
built. When the progress thermometer reaches 100%, the dialog 
box disappears automatically.

*	The system reboots. The new AUTOEXEC.BAT loads Recuperator in 
memory so that it can save your system state.

*	As soon as Recuperator loads, press Ctrl+Left Shift+Right 
Shift to save the system state manually. The manual save 
tests the configuration settings.

NOTES:
Recuperator Setup cannot install Recuperator if you have a 
multi-boot AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

The mouse will be disabled during the second part of the setup.

The save file cannot be created on a compressed drive.

Recuperator cannot be run with Disk Manager.

Recuperator does not work yet on microchannel systems.

When you cancel the setup procedure your system will be restored 
to the original state and rebooted.

If you change the Recuperator configuration the system must be 
rebooted for the changes to take affect.

You must run setup again if your system hardware is changed or a 
new disk volume is added.

If your system has a Diamond Viper or Hercules Graphite video 
card you will need to change the Primary Video Type in Advanced 
Configuration to VGA.

If your system has a bus mouse it will not be automatically 
detected. You must set the Mouse Type in Advanced Configuation.

To turn off automatic saves, You can press ALT-LEFT_SHIFT-
RIGHT_SHIFT. You will hear the pc beep three times indicating 
Recuperator has been disabled. To reenable, press the same key 
sequence.  The pc will beep twice indicating Recuperator is on.


2.  Supports Stacker & DoubleSpace Drives, Large Volumes

Optimizer (formerly Compress), DiskFix and Backup now support 
Stacker and DoubleSpace compressed drives.  DiskFix can analyze 
and repair these volumes, in addition to doing a  decompression 
on DoubleSpace to check for compression errors.  Optimizer and 
DiskFix now support drives up to 2 gigabytes.

3.  New Central Point Anti-Virus Technology (CPAV)

PC Tools now features the same advanced AV technology that is in 
CPAV 2.0.  A new Virus Analyzer uses an expert system to detect 
unknown viruses in files and boot sectors without requiring any 
prior infection information.  CPAV also now uses SmartChecks to 
detect and clean unknown viruses without updated virus 
signatures.  In addition, signature file updates contain more 
information about file, boot sector, and memory viruses and are 
now used by BOOTSAFE, CPAV.EXE and VSAFE.  CPAV can now scan 
files compressed by both self-extracting and generic compression 
programs, including PKZIP, PKLITE, LZEXE and ARJ.  Scans are up 
to 15X faster and TSR memory requirements have been reduced.
 
4.  New Integrated Hardware Diagnostics (SI PRO)

System Information Professional provides extensive information 
and diagnostic testing for your pc such as CPU, video, memory, 
CMOS, hard and floppy disk tests, sound card, and many others.

5.  New High-Speed Floppy Duplicator with Media 
Conversion

FastCopy quickly makes multiple copies of floppy disks. You can 
also use FastCopy to save an image of a floppy disk on a hard 
disk, allowing you to quickly create copies of the disk later.  
Media conversions are also featured, which let you copy disks 
from one format to another ( provided the destination size disk 
is smaller than the source ).

6.  Task Switcher Improvements

Task Switcher now launches scheduled events (formerly handled by 
CPSCHED) and allows you to specify a program to run during 
computer idle time.  It will also now save high resolution video 
screens running in VESA mode.

7.  DataMon Requires Less RAM

DATAMON has been reduced in TSR memory size.  The Disk Light 
feature has been removed from DATAMON and placed into another 
program, DSKLIGHT.EXE.  Undelete now provides delete-protection 
configuration.

