Junction Box

Junction Box is a small software application developed specifically for helping you back up, transfer, and restore special filesystem ‘junctions’ for Windows Vista and Windows 7 user profiles. In addition, it offers you the possibility to fix a Windows installation in case the junctions have been accidently deleted.
Junctions are filesystem objects which stand for a link to a folder on the disk or another disk. In case you have experienced errors in copying, backing up, or restoring user profiles in Windows Vista and 7 due to the presence of junctions within the profiles, Junction Box offers a simple solution to this particular problem.

Benefits brought by portable utilities

You can keep Junction Box stored on pen drives or other portable devices in order to have it with you all the time. Gaining access to its GUI requires only a double-click on the executable file because you do not have to go through the preset steps embedded in an installation process. Additionally, you may run it without administrative privileges.
It does not write entries to your Windows registry and leave other traces behind. It actually stores all configuration settings on the storage device. You can uninstall it via a deletion task. You may run the tool directly from the pen drive on the target system.

Clean looks

Junction Box reveals a straightforward layout that allows you to tweak the dedicated parameters with minimal effort. An online help manual is available in case you want to find out extra information about the configuration settings.

How it works

The program offers you the possibility to back up and restore junctions to or from a catalog file, as well as delete them in order to carry out a backup task successfully.
Backups files are exported to NTJ file format and are stored in the program’s folder. The process may take from a few minutes up to an hour, and this pretty much depends on the amount of data on the disk.

Final remarks

All things considered, Junction Box provides an intuitive and efficient software solution for helping you back up user profiles, and can be handled by beginners and professionals alike.