Genie Timeline Review - Go Back In Time with Genie Timeline!

You are just completed your PowerPoint Presentation that took you days to make. Then your five-year-old son gets on, and somehow manages to delete it. What will you do? With Genie Timeline, that won't be a problem.

How It Helps
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Almost everyone who has used computers for a while will have experienced losing important data (unless you are super-lucky or something). Sometimes it is no biggie, because you had it backed-up. But other times it can cause a lot of stress.

Traditional backup programs are sometimes a pain, because you have to set it up manually, and often when it runs your computer grinds to a halt.

You can solve that problem with Genie Timeline. Accidentally deleted a file? Just right-click your deskop, click View all deleted files, and restore the file that was lost.

It also supports Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7.

Installation
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The installation was quick and easy. I only had to watch the bar move across the window for a minute, and since I used VMware Workstation to test this, it will probably go faster in the "real world."

I was then presented with a simple screen showing how to set up the backup.

Genie Timeline, by default, will backup these files:

You can also change this by clicking Let me modify data selections.

I will now continue by clicking the right-arrow (>).

Here you choose where you want the backup to go.

As you see, I only have one drive, and that is the one which the OS (operating system) is installed on. (Click here to see why it isn't a recommended drive, and what is.) After selecting my "C:/" drive, I click the next button (">").

Do you not want others to look at what you have backed-up? Then you can set a password.

But be careful - if you forget the password...to bad. You can't get it back.

I chose to not set any password, then clicked the next button.

There we go! So simple a cave-man could do it! (If he had a computer, of course.)

There is also a note on that screen that may be important.

Genie Timeline keeps half hour backups for the last 48 hours, daily backups for the last week, weekly backups afterwards.

When your disk is almost full, Genie Timeline will delete older versions to free space.

Just click the Finish button, and we are all set.