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Returnil vs System Restore vs Sandboxie - Tech Support Guy Forums

Returnil places the entire system into RAM. Everything that happens during the session while Returnil is ‘on’ is just a computer “dream.” It exists only in the electrical patterns maintained in the memory chips. When the computer is powered down, everything vanishes, and the system is exactly the way it was when Returnil was turned on. No newly created folders. No downloaded songs. No bookmarks. No installed programs. Nothing really happened.

Now, Returnil does create its own virtual ‘drive,’ and things can be recovered from it if desired. And activity on CDs, thumb drives, and external hard drives is real; so files can be saved to those locations.
Returnil prevents any changes to the system partition. For most of us that means C:.

This makes Returnil perfect for those who want to give children opportunity to use the computer, but do not want to suffer the consequences of undisciplined practices. Using Returnil means that even if the child installed malware, it would amount to nothing and be gone after reboot.

Sandboxie creates a ‘virtual environment’ for selected applications. When a browser is run in Sandboxie, the result is very similar to what happens with Returnil–as far as the browser is concerned. The rest of the system is not affected. Like Returnil, at the end of the session it is possible to ‘recover’ certain items from the ’sandbox.’ The application works well as far as browsers go. I have had less than satisfactory results trying to ’sandbox’ an installation. Either the sandbox fails or the installation fails in the majority of cases. If I want to “try out’ an installation, I use Returnil. Sandboxie will protect from ‘almost’ all malware. I find it difficult to use since I collect so very many bookmarks.
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There’s also Acronis True Image Home 11. It allows you to run your entire system virtually, choose what changes to keep, and also has a complete system imaging capability. The best of all the worlds combined.

DeepFreeze is another that does exactly as you imagine. No permanent changes without a boot with it turned off. I use it on machines for toddlers that don’t even know that game scores can be saved and who enjoy restarting games each time

[From: Returnil vs System Restore vs Sandboxie - Tech Support Guy Forums]

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

[From: Crayon Physics Deluxe]

DesktopCoral Review & Download Link | freewaregenius.com

DesktopCoral is a program that can reserve a part of the edge of your screen (on any of the 4 sides) such as to prevent applications and windows from maximizing over the reserved area. This allows the user to place some objects in the reserved space that will be visible at all times (and will not be maximized over by other windows).

[From: DesktopCoral Review & Download Link | freewaregenius.com]

Shup : The free multi-host screenshot, image, and file uploader for Windows

Shup is great for uploading all kinds of files, especially when combined with the included Windows shell extension. With it, you can upload with Shup by right-clicking on a file in Explorer! Not only can Shup upload all kinds of files, it can also upload to many different hosts, including:

Flickr
ImageShack
PhotoBucket
Stashbox
REAPER Resource Repositorium
Waffle Images
You can also create custom site profiles and upload to your own web server; we even provide a sample PHP script to get you started.

[From: Shup : The free multi-host screenshot, image, and file uploader for Windows]

ReadBurner

ReadBurner aggragates items that are shared on the Google Reader.

This works by constantly updating RSS feeds of currently several hundred linkblogs. In order to filter out the best stuff ReadBurner counts, whenever an item is shared by multiple persons. Since Google Reader users can generally be described as very tech-aware, I think that over time lots of good stuff can come out of ReadBurner.

[From: ReadBurner]