Try&Decide: typical use cases

The Try&Decide feature can help you in various circumstances, for example:

Software evaluation

Sometimes it may be useful to turn on the Try mode before installing new software. For example, we recommend that you turn it on when you want to:

• Choose antivirus software.

  There are known cases when installation of antivirus software cripples functionality of some applications or they may even refuse to launch after antivirus installation. You can test a trial version of the antivirus. If you encounter any problems, discard the changes in your system and try antivirus software from another vendor.

• Install a trial version of a program.

  It is well known that the "Add or Remove Programs" component of the Windows Control Panel cannot give a complete guarantee of cleanly uninstalling applications. If you do not like the program that you installed, discard the changes in your system. In this case, you can be sure that Try&Decide removed the program without a trace.

• Install suspicious software.

  If you do not trust the vendor of the software that you want to install, or when the source of the software is unknown, turn on the Try mode before installing this software. If anything goes wrong, discard the changes made in the Try mode.

File recovery

You have accidentally deleted some files and then emptied the Recycle Bin. Then you have remembered that the deleted files contained important data and now you are going to try to undelete them using the appropriate software. However, sometimes you may do something wrong while trying to recover deleted files, making things worse than before trying to recover them. So you can proceed as follows:

• Turn on the Try mode.
• Launch the file undelete utility.
• After the utility scans your disk in search of the deleted file or folder entries, it will present you the deleted entries it has found (if any) and offer you the opportunity to save whatever it can recover. There is always a chance that you might pick the wrong file and while recovering it the utility may overwrite the very file you are trying to recover. If not for the Try&Decide, this error would be fatal and the file would be lost irretrievably.
• But now you can just discard the changes made in the Try mode and make one more attempt to recover the files after turning on the Try mode again. Such attempts may be repeated until you are sure that you have done your best in trying to recover the files.

Web privacy

Suppose you do not want anybody to know, which Web sites you have visited or which pages you have opened - we all have the right to privacy. But the problem is that to make your Web surfing more comfortable and fast, the system stores this information and much more: cookies you have received, search engine queries you have made, URLs you have typed, etc. in special hidden files. And such information is not deleted completely when you clear your temporary Internet files, delete cookies, clear history of the recently opened Web pages using the browser's tools. So snoopers may be able to view the information using special software.

Turn on the Try mode and surf the Web as you please. Afterwards, if you want to remove all traces of your activity, discard the changes made in the Try mode.