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Reuschtools Changelog

What's new in Reuschtools 4.51

Jan 19, 2024
  • FakeDriveCheck verifies if a USB flash or MicroSD drive is fake, corrupted or OK.

New in Reuschtools 4.49 (Dec 19, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The Paint app could not be stareted after Restore and showed 'wrong parameter' as error.

New in Reuschtools 4.48 (Dec 12, 2023)

  • All open registry files are checked and defragmented during backup. Previously, the check was only carried out on selected registry files.

New in Reuschtools 4.46 (Nov 17, 2023)

  • New features:
  • ClassicMenu, switches the classic context menu on or off.
  • The Setup dialog can run remotely now (c_e \PC2 rtcmd setup).
  • Fixed:
  • Installing CryptManager failed if Hotkeys were not selected as well.

New in Reuschtools 4.45 (Aug 7, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • ERROR 'GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint' when preparing a USB drive for Recovery or Windows To Go.

New in Reuschtools 4.44 (Jul 14, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • ERROR 'FP->ft.DriveType >= COUNT(DTypeA)' when selecting OneDrive as backup target.

New in Reuschtools 4.42 (Jun 3, 2023)

  • New features:
  • CryptManager creates and handles Elliptic EFS Keys.
  • The client-server communication uses the Cryptography Next Generation (CNG) interface and nistP521 keys (Recommended Elliptic Curves for Federal Government Use).
  • One-Click Recovery can optionally be started without administrative rights and without user account control (UAC).

New in Reuschtools 4.41 (Apr 29, 2023)

  • New wizard 'CopyMob' (icon in the start menu): Mirrors photos and music from smartphone to PC and back again.
  • The recovery shell (rtcmd tree) offers a context menu with many commands. From UEFI partitioning to mirroring Windows® drives.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • ERROR WIMRegisterLogFile when creating a recovery environment with Windows 10 on a UEFI PC.

New in Reuschtools 4.38 (Nov 10, 2022)

  • The boot configuration is checked for all Windows® backups and mirrors. Previously, this only worked for backups and mirrors of the running Windows®. Now, the recovery environment can be used to copy a Windows® drive to a new drive. After this, Windows® can start from the new drive.
  • Setup without administrative rights for the current user.

New in Reuschtools 4.36 (Aug 28, 2022)

  • Duplicate mobile drives are hidden.

New in Reuschtools 4.35 (Jul 26, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Data and image backup on smartphones.
  • Mirror:
  • rtcmd mirror C: M
  • mirrors the entire C: drive to the M: drive:
  • Drive C: can be the current Windows® drive.
  • Drive M: can be a hard disk or a USB stick
  • (Windows® to go).
  • Open databases on C: are checked and shut down.
  • If drive C: is the Windows® drive, the startup configuration on drive M: will be prepared.
  • After a successful mirroring Windows® can start immediately from drive M:.
  • Drive C: can be removed after startup.
  • A repeated mirroring for a 50 GB drive
  • takes about 1 minute.
  • Re-mirroring, after a user has changed data or software on M: (Windows® to go), he can resync drive M: to the original C: drive:
  • rtcmd mirror M: C
  • Private Restore checks the startup configuration:
  • The Windows® drive can be backed up with Private Backup. This backup can be restored later to the current Windows® drive or to a new drive or USB stick. The startup configuration for a new drive will be prepared. The PC can start from the new drive after restoring. Previously, this feature was only available with Install Restore.
  • Setup offers a new hotkey:
  • CtrlAlt W takes you directly to the extended Windows® startup menu. From this menu a Windows® to go that resides on a USB stick can be selected.

New in Reuschtools 4.32 (Oct 26, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • CryptManager

New in Reuschtools 4.30 (Aug 6, 2021)

  • Desktop becomes data folder:
  • Many users put their files on the desktop. Previously, the desktop was backed up with Install Backup and restored and cleaned with Install Restore. As a result, the files on the desktop were lost. Now the desktop is considered as a data folder and is no longer backed up by Install Backup nore restored by Install Restore. Exceptions are files that end with .lnk, .url. and .ini.

New in Reuschtools 4.27 (Aug 3, 2021)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • "wrong path" error, if the user tries to backup a drive.

New in Reuschtools 4.26 (Jul 20, 2021)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • "private key not found" error, if the user has no EFS key.

New in Reuschtools 4.25 (Jul 19, 2021)

  • Windows 11 ready.

New in Reuschtools 4.24 (Jun 8, 2021)

  • scriptsContextMenuListDirectory.cmd shows the content of Alternate Data Streams.

New in Reuschtools 4.08 (Apr 15, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • The recovery environment will be moved to the recovery partition, if there is one. This means that the recovery environment can be started without decryption, even if Windows is encrypted with BitLocker.
  • New commands that can also be started by the setup wizard
  • Start the recovery environment now.
  • Desaster Recovery: Start the recovery environment, restore the latest image and wait until all machines in the network are clean.
  • Format a hard disk or a USB drive for UEFI Secure Boot. Allows the creation of a Windows to go.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Network search with Smb3 did not work.

New in Reuschtools 4.01 (Aug 26, 2019)

  • New features:
  • The installer highlights the update button to avoid misunderstandings.
  • File protection will only be set if the user selects the 'FileProtection' option in the Setup-Wizard.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Restore failed with errors when correcting short filenames on drives with duplicate files names.

New in Reuschtools 3.98 (Apr 3, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Faster and improved Setup-Wizard.
  • The wizards will now start Install-Restore and Private-Restore of drives from the System-Account by default.
  • Open files are detected and replaced when restoring.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The wizards were partially unreadable when setting Windows® to 'High Contrast'.
  • Private-Restore crashed when files could not be replaced.
  • Backups aborted with error if the table of contents of the hard disk contained errors.
  • On Windows® 17763, administrators can no longer remove the Store Apps permissions (SDDL_ALL_APP_PACKAGES). This is still possible from the System account.

New in Reuschtools 3.92 (Mar 11, 2019)

  • Direct reading from the hard-disk results in faster backups.
  • UEFI 32 support.

New in Reuschtools 3.89 (Mar 11, 2019)

  • The compression of the installer has been set from '/SOLID lzma' to 'lzma' because Zillya antivirus has triggered false positive.

New in Reuschtools 3.88 (Mar 11, 2019)

  • Several small

New in Reuschtools 3.81 (May 24, 2018)

  • Anti-Virus triggered false positive

New in Reuschtools 3.75 (Feb 23, 2018)

  • Restore with Avira antivirus has not been working properly.

New in Reuschtools 3.70 (Jan 25, 2018)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Black screen after Restore if the Windows® update KB4056892 was previously installed (Meltdown and Spectre Update).
  • Various minor problems and bugs.

New in Reuschtools 3.36 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • New features:
  • ESE databases are checked and shut down during backups.
  • Fixed bugs:
  • The tile menu could be reinitialized or destroyed after restoring Windows®.

New in Reuschtools 3.19 (Jul 29, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Up to 3 times faster. Restores Windows® 8.1 in less than a minute.
  • Restores Windows on USB-drives.
  • Checks and fixes IDE-AHCI conflicts which would otherwise lead to boot failure.

New in Reuschtools 3.16 (Mar 9, 2015)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Error 'Too many open files' if the WindowApps folder has been restored

New in Reuschtools 3.15 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Several small bugs caused by the conversion to Unicode
  • Correct detection of Windows 10

New in Reuschtools 3.14 (Feb 8, 2015)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • CreateMutex, Access denied

New in Reuschtools 3.12 (Jan 26, 2015)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_PREPARE_SNAPSHOT when backing up server 2012R2 with a Hyper-V Machine that has it's virtual disk on an other drive.

New in Reuschtools 3.11 (Jan 6, 2015)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Setup Error with PATH Environment-Variables longer than 512 characters

New in Reuschtools 3.10 (Dec 22, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Selectable dialog font
  • Windows 10 aware
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Full Unicode implementation

New in Reuschtools 3.09 (Dec 22, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • The wizard header has been renamed to: "Reuschtools Backup and Recovery".
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The Install Restore Wizard would show dots instead of the size of a drive if the drive size was larger than 1TB. The column was too narrow.
  • The c_e editor did not enter opened files in the list of recently opened files.

New in Reuschtools 3.08 (Apr 1, 2014)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Previously Logoff-Trojans (eg Win32-Shiotob) were rendered harmless with Install-Restore, but the Trojan file remained in an invisible folder on the hard disk. An accidental reactivation of the Trojan was very unlikely.
  • To avoid being found by security software, Logoff-Trojans hide in memory while the user is logged on. Only when the user logs off, the Trojan writes itself back to disk. But this is now prevented during the restart after Install-Restore.

New in Reuschtools 3.07 (Feb 24, 2014)

  • New:
  • Drive letters A and B are now recognized when assigned to hard disks.
  • Fixed:
  • The TuneUp script disabled the scheduled task 'MsCtfMonitor' which leads to a slow start up of console application in Windows Vista.

New in Reuschtools 3.06 (Jan 15, 2014)

  • Advanced recovery environment with start bar. Files can be executed or opened by the recovery shell.