Similarly, as with the traffic lights, Configuration LifeGuard uses a concept of three different colors of its default purple icon (the lifesaver) to analyze and visually distinguish the situation that has occurred during backup, restore or undo restore. A corresponding feedback dialog box with the respective color of lifesaver will pop up.

GREEN lifesaver indicates that the last operation which the user performed has been successful and that no problems or errors have been encountered with the files that remain checked. Under normal circumstances, you will mostly see this type of dialog box only:

or, alternatively,

When the error-autodiagnostics feature that is built into this program detects a problem, it will activate the yellow or red lifesaver dialog box specifically determining the culprit that has invoked it. Your identification of the problem can thus be narrowed down to a single file.

YELLOW lifesaver has been assigned to pinpoint an absence of a particular file from your system resulting in no action taken with the file involved. When this type of dialog box activates, you may abort the operation or you may choose to proceed with handling other files that are present at their default locations:

RED lifesaver is reserved for error situations when the particular file has been found present on your system, yet cannot be accessed and handled. Needless to say, such situations are usually not very frequent and do not necessarily mean a problem - they may be caused e.g. by having a file loaded into a certain type of text or binary editor or by a file being temporarily locked by the system during its updating. Check for these possibilities first and repeat your operation with the problem-causing file selected again. On the other hand, an error may also be caused by e.g. disk errors or system date/time mismatch. When the error dialog box activates, you will be offered an option to run ScanDisk, you may abort the operation and manually attend to your problem or you may proceed with handling other files that are normally accessible:

This program is extensively furnished with error traps at every possible level of its operation and it will fail to proceed if it detects that "its road is not clear". This is by itself the very best way to prevent errors being written into your configuration and system files.

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