Fast, good and still cheap!

Ghost makes its images on the fly from Windows and also works with Vista perfectly. One can regulate the maximum performance to be used and thus operate during the image creation process without problem or even play.

The Disk Image Explorer is just awesome, you can browse its image and restore individual files.
If you can be using Google Desktop Search even live at the files include the image with.
The only thing I can think of would be an improvement to integrate this feature in the Windows Live Search.

I have in addition another backup solution running but only for the reason that I copy the data with the other program online on a secure server. The Norton Ghost is even possible Allerding would take to an FTP server.

All in all, the most famous alternative Acronis still a few more features, however, I come with this product cope much better, even if it looks not so colorful and trendy.
It is much faster and the competitor can no images on the fly can be generated.