Impulse Archiving/Restoring Tutorial on WC Wiki

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

WC member gmc2 has created a user tutorial on how to Archive and Restore using Impulse, and posted it to the WinCustomize Wiki.  Thanks for taking the time to create this, and remember anyone can post a tutorial or guide to the WC Wiki for others to use.

http://wiki.wincustomize.com/wiki/Impulse:_Archiving/Restoring_Programs

RedneckDude
Reply #1 Tuesday, September 7, 2010 12:03 PM

Thanks Spencer, nice job gmc2!!!  This will be helpful.

gmc2
Reply #2 Tuesday, September 7, 2010 1:19 PM

you're welcome, nice to be able to help.

sViz
Reply #3 Tuesday, September 7, 2010 2:44 PM

 

az0th
Reply #4 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 12:32 AM
Finally! I only wish I knew how to do this before, having lost 2 decent applications to buggy updates. A request to the powers that be: Impulse could use a 'how to' menu. Thanks gmc2!
az0th
Reply #5 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 1:40 AM
Luckily, my other PC still has an earlier version of DeskScapes installed: the one where you right-click on desktop>properties>DeskScapes>apply. I want to archive this version but it doesn't appear on Impulse, which instead offers DeskScapes 3 and says 'previous version installed' under 'status'. But right-clicking on it won't give an 'archive' option for this previous version, only 'download and archive' for DeskScapes 3. Any ideas on how to find and archive the previous version would be really appreciated.
danioc
Reply #6 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 7:38 PM

Nice one!

DrJBHL
Reply #7 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 7:55 PM

Well done tutorial. Short, thorough and to the point. Thanks! 

DaveBax
Reply #8 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 9:03 PM

Thank you for putting this up, very good to have.

ZubaZ
Reply #9 Thursday, September 9, 2010 8:42 AM

Well done!

 

Might want to add that Download and Archive is OS independent and Archive is not.

danioc
Reply #10 Thursday, September 9, 2010 9:44 AM

ZUBAZ! BRO!

gmc2
Reply #11 Thursday, September 9, 2010 11:48 AM

Might want to add that Download and Archive is OS independent and Archive is not.

I hear the words but not sure of the meaning. what's the difference from archive and archive and downloading what specifically.

speak layman Zubaz. I'll make the additions or you can make the changes if you like, either or...

ZubaZ
Reply #12 Thursday, September 9, 2010 12:16 PM


Might want to add that Download and Archive is OS independent and Archive is not.

I hear the words but not sure of the meaning. what's the difference from archive and archive and downloading what specifically.

speak layman Zubaz. I'll make the additions or you can make the changes if you like, either or...

I speak Zubish; I don't think speaking laynam is possible for me.

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Wizard1956
Reply #13 Thursday, September 9, 2010 1:55 PM

Great job on the tutorial. Everyone should archive their apps, so this will be very helpful.

Island Dog
Reply #14 Thursday, September 9, 2010 4:32 PM

az0th
Reply #15 Friday, September 10, 2010 1:53 AM
Reply #0 Friday, September 10, 2010 1:37 AM Zubaz reply #7, August 18, 2010: "You can set Impulse to archive your existing app on install of an update. It can eaiteher create a new achive each time or overwrite the last one." I didn't know this option existed under Advanced Settings. "Archive application before updating" in Advanced Settings should do the trick. Thanks, Zubaz gmc2 you might want to mention in the Tutorial that this option exists under Advanced Settings.
Quicksilver007
Reply #16 Friday, September 10, 2010 9:24 AM

Nice tutorial gmc2!

gmc2
Reply #17 Friday, September 10, 2010 1:25 PM

gmc2 you might want to mention in the Tutorial that this option exists under Advanced Settings.

it's under item 4, "future considerations".

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