Hello all!
what was your favourite operating system in the history of computing? 
Also what about software? My favourite operating system in the history 
of computing
is probably Windows 95 and I was using JAWS as my screen reader. My 
favourite software was a product by PowerQuest called Second Chance. (I 
wonder if anyone
remembers having that preinstalled on their old machines?) I certainly 
did and it was brilliant! The program is basically System Restore but 
for data as
well as system. What Second Chance did was created "checkpoints" at 
regular intervals. You can then restore individual files and folders, or 
even an entire
system, to that particular checkpoint. Checkpoint 1 was always the 
"initial" checkpoint either after Second Chance was first installed or 
you have enabled
a drive to be monitored after it being disabled. One problem Second 
Chance did do was corrupt the JAWS authorization keys that were used way 
back then.
You know, the ones that consisted of a special floppy disk? This is 
because, as I soon found out, a hidden/system file jfw.cps was backed up 
by Second
Chance each time JAWS modified it. So of course when you restored an 
entire system to an earlier checkpoint you lost authorization in the 
process. But
apart from that it was brilliant! How I wish they'd brought it back to 
make it work for Windows 7!

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