Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Open Source
Pick up where you left off before a reboot with Cache My Work
by Lee Mathews Nov 6th 2009 at 8:30AM
Cache My Work was created to tackle the task of restoring your windows following a restart. Launch the app and a list of your cacheable programs is displayed - you also have the option of re-opening all your open Explorer windows. Check off what you want restored, click save, and reboot.
Once Windows is up and running again, Cache My Work's preparations make your programs reappear. It's a simple but effective little app - all it really does is zap a few lines into your registry under the Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce key.
You'll still need to re-open your files -- except, of course, in apps like Firefox where you have the option to restore your previous session automatically.
While the project hasn't seen an update in just over a year, it still works nicely - even on WIndows 7 (both 32 and 64-bit builds).
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Vindhya said 2:12PM on 11-06-2009
Doesn't the "hibernate" function do essentially the same thing?
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Lee Mathews said 2:13PM on 11-06-2009
Hibernating and rebooting are very different things. Hibernation won't allow updates to install, for example. You're restoring a preserved state, so updates will still be waiting for a reboot to finish them off.
cendana287 said 8:18PM on 11-06-2009
Something so simple but very important. I hate it when a Windows Update would pester with popups every few minutes to reboot. And after doing so, it's the " click-open-all-those-programs and find-files" time-wasting routine.
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