RecImg Manager is a Metro interface and manager for the new Windows 8 recimg.exe command line utility and the recovery images it creates. Unlike full images, recovery images don't contain or documents, user settings, etc.; these are left alone when a recovery image is created or restore. However, they do contain everything else, and with no differential or incremental options, they are generally quite large.

I did note one small issue with RecImg Manager. After I cancelled a backup, I was unable to quit the program, receiving warnings that a backup was still in progress. Task Manager showed that recimg.exe, which is easily cancelled, was still running. After ending the recimg.exe process, I was able to quit RecImg Manager.

RecImg Manager is undeniably handy, and puts a much-needed friendly face on this Windows 8 command line backup and recovery feature. Indeed, I wish Slimware Utilities would do the same thing with Windows xcopy.exe so we could all more easily perform file and folder backups.

—Jon L. Jacobi