http://www.donationcoder.com

OK, so this software is a bit of a maybe. The idea behind it is great as it basically allows you to recover any programs you have closed in the last 60 seconds (but you can increase/decrease this timer as well to give you as much recovery time as you want). This is very handy if you have a habit of accidentally closing programs, especially if you haven’t saved your work. The GoneIn60s icon sits in your system tray, to recover a closed program all you need to do is right click on the icon and select it from the pop-up menu.

The program does, however, have a few bugs at the moment. Certain programs that prompt you to save documents before closing (such as Word, Excel, Dreamweaver) are an issue because if you have an unsaved document open and close the program, the application window will close (and be kept in memory by GoneIn60s) only to reopen 60 seconds later (when the timer runs out) with the ’save before closing?’ prompt. Also, if you do decide to close the system tray icon, all recently closed applications will be recovered (without you telling them to). This program is fairly new though, so bugs like these will hopefully be ironed out in future versions. This is definitely worth trying out, even with the minor bugs, if it will help save some important work for you.

Tip: GoneIn60s does not have a standard installer, once you’ve downloaded the program and double click, it will run from that location. So you should save it somewhere out of the way (e.g. create a GoneIn60s folder in Program Files and save it there) as the program also creates a configuration file. It may also be worth adding to your startup folder (or a shortcut of GoneIn60s) so that you are always covered.