System Requirements and Prerequisites

·       Requires Windows 2000 (Pro or Server, SP3 or later), XP (Pro or Home) or 2003 Server.

·       Must be an administrator to install this software

·       Prerequisites :-

·       Windows Installer 3.0 or later.

·       Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 or later.

The Enhanced Windows Backup installer will detect whether you need to install or upgrade to these prerequisites and so long as you have internet access, will invite you to download and install them. If you do not have internet access, you will need to download them on a different PC and install them manually onto your PC before running the Enhanced Windows Backup installer.

Manual download URL for Windows Installer 3.1 is:-
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/4/7/147ded26-931c-4daf-9095-ec7baf996f46/
WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe

Manual download URL for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is:-
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/6/7/567758a3-759e-473e-bf8f-52154438565a/dotnetfx.exe

1.1.1006 New features and fixes since 1.1.1005

·       Improved stability of serial numbers which had caused some customers to have to re-register. In the unlikely event that the serial number of your PC changes, which can be caused by network, hard disk or registry changes, the software issues a warning message at startup and then launches the registration wizard. Customers then need to re-register and re-activate with the new serial number to get a new activation code. This will only happen once because the re-registration uses a stable serial number algorithm which will not change in the future.

·       Bug fixed: Backups sometimes don't start at the scheduled time

·       New installer

·       Better support for prerequisites detection and installation

·       Installs "per machine" rather than "per user"

·       Better clean up of system on uninstall

·       Installation package size has now been shrunk - quicker download

·       Updates handling overhauled

·       Download progress dialog introduced & bug fixes

·       Updates window does not pop-up on top of registration wizard at startup

·       Automatic updates do not pop-up unexpectedly but invite the user to review updates by showing a notification balloon

·       Updates download is now more reliable and faster

·       Upgrade installs now correctly replace the previous application

·       No longer accesses the floppy drive on startup (quicker startup)

·       Automatic Launch option in options menu directly reflects the state of the registry key used to launch EWBackup (rather than a value stored in the config xml file)

·       Software detects if changes to the registry key used to auto-launch have been intercepted by protection/security software and issues a dialog warning about this

·       Exceptions are handled more reliably and allow the error to be cut and pasted into an email

·       New 'manual edit' button introduced to manually change the Backup Destination Folder. This allows more reliable verification when backup destination folders are changed

·       More reliable operation in the backup engine of the postpone/resume functionality when the destination folder goes offline

·       Full EULA can be reviewed from the freeware startup screen by clicking the word 'EULA'

·       Bug fixed: Fatal Exception "Length of argument 'String' must be greater than zero at Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Asc(String,String)"

·       Last Ran date is now shown correctly as blank when the job has not run before. Previously is showed 1/1/2000

·       Backup engine will not allow jobs to start when their settings or selections are being changed.

·       The Start/Stop buttons are now permanently enabled to fix a bug. The buttons only take action if appropriate at the current time. The action is confirmed by an entry in the log.

·       The default mode (under options) for the NTBackup window is "hidden" for new installs.