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Software Reviews by Rodger

The reviews and opinions below are posted by SnapFiles visitors. They do not necessarily reflect our opinion, and they are solely based upon the experience of individual users.

RISING Antivirus Free Edition

Only good for one year

Contacted the author-you can use the free version for one year then you either need to pay money or uninstall it and reinstall a new version. Seems odd but that is straight from the horses mouth. Price: Free

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QText

Nice and easy

Easy to use and portable, looks great... Price: Free

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Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free

The greatest

Keeps getting better,version 165 installs and works fine. Price: Free

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ClipCube

Neato

Works well and is portable-no writing to the registry,only drawback is that it uses about 9 megs of ram-seems a little high.Dont push the blue bar on the gui it deletes everything!! Price: Free

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Photo Black and Color

Easy as pie

Works well and nice results just dont know if I would have the need for it? Give it a try it is portable and does not write outside its own folder(no registry entries). Price: Free

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Firefox Extension Backup (FEBE)

Kind of useless

The problem is that when Firefox updates most extensions dont so you would be left with a new version of firefox with some non working extensions-so good for bookmarks and passwords but bad for extensions. Price: Free

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Photo! Editor

Some features exellent but....

The healing tool is awesome but I cannot see all the buttons on 800x600 and there is no option to remove the right click context menu on images-I wish they would add that option,otherwise works great. Price: Free

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SnapaShot Classic

Nice and clear

Small application,does not write to the registry and takes clear shots- not my favorite but neat,try it. Price: Free

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FotoSketcher

Does not look like a sketch

Does not look like a sketch. There are better freeware plugins around to do this. Price: Free

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Neutron

Very handy

Useful and cool and works on ME and XP fantastico! Price: Free

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QuickSet Internet Zone

Exellent

Can disable scripting very easily-must have for IE then you dont have to mess around with your security settings. Price: Free

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Core FTP LE

Very reliable but

Really the best I have used so far but very ugly! Sorry to say that but it looks pretty bad but I use it only as it has no problems-I guess I can live with it's appearance.. Price: Free

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Any Wallpaper

I like simplicity

Fair? I like the fact it does folders-nice and simple and does now write to the registry or put dll files in windows-best I have used so far. Price: Free

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The software developer responded to this review on Jul 10, 2007: There are serious bugs in v1.0.0. Immediate upgrade to v1.0.1 is highly recommended.

Xvid Media Codec

Xvid the best

I use it only-less intrusive than Divx and will decode Divx 5 so you dont need to install that to play the videos-only thing is that it is open source so be careful where you download -I have never heard of this site so make a restore point first...but should be fine.Only reason I say this is as it was not tested by Snapfiles. [Editor: It was tested by us, just not rated.] Price: Free

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View Box Player

Yuk!

What,do you need like a super large screen resolution to see this? 800x600 dont cut it plus weather would not do anything,needs no installation so worth a try but who would want this-just use a tabbed browser and have youtube on a tab?? Price: Free

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Ashampoo ClipFinder HD

Boring

Why use software to find videos? I dont speak German so those other sites are useless - may as well just search Youtube.... Price: Free

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Face Control Plug-in

Neat

Very useful-you need this on occasion,worth the download. Price: Free

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IZArc

Neato!

I dont know why I have never tried this before but it is great-easy to use and you can right click on any format and extract.... Price: Free

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BartPE

Easy to build but hard to use

Seems easy to build the boot CD - if you have a dell computer you need a plugin called fixdellxp which you can get on the faq page-you have to add this to the cd before you burn it. My only complaint is that there is no documentation on how to use the CD-it includes A43 file manager which can browse files but can you run exe's? Can you run the system restore exe? Price: Free

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ThumbaWumba

Old version better

I have been using 1.2 for a long time and love it-this version much harder to use as in adding background images etc...I will stick with 1.2 and the author still has it on his site to download. Price: Free

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MuralPix

Works well

I like it somewhat but way too many settings for me-should also have an option to display landscape images at full screen. [Editor: You can run full-screen wallpapers, just disable the frame option and set margins to 0] Price: Free

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USBDeview

A pleasure

As most of his software very useful indeed-just wish he would pack all his programs into one package-that would be a great arsenal! Price: Free

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pcBaseline

Nice but....

Needs 1024x769 screen resolution to see everything-in addition it should monitor itself as uninstalling leaves all kinds of junk on your PC as well as in the registry. Price: Free

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RocketDock

I am impressed

I tried a version of this a while ago and hated it-this version is very fast and I like it! Price: Free

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Sarbyx TrayClock

Neato

Finally a tray clock I can read! I like it-it really could use a skin browser window but I only liked 10 or so skins so just go into the skin folder and delete what you dont want-will shorten the menu. Price: Free

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BCArchive

Junk

I dont like to use this term but I am being honest-installs fine and works but XP ran really slow after install and when I went to uninstall it took 50 seconds for windows to find my control panel?? Try it if you want but make a restore point first.... Price: Free

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Roxio MediaTicker

Nasty

Agree with Snapfiles Review plus it tried to run Installshield Update Service after intallation -also installs a Roxio Update Manager........ The main pics cannot be resized and if you click on the edit picture button it takes you to roxios site-I dont like this program,neat idea but a pain..... Price: Free

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The software developer responded to this review on Sep 25, 2006: Thanks for the comments - they ll help us to improve our products in the future. BTW, the update manager stuff is to ensure that you always have the latest version of the product. We thought users would want that feature. Perhaps in the next version, we ll provide a way to turn it off. Thanks again!

Free Launch Bar

Use caution

Installs fine but when dragging a folder onto it it moved the entire folder-did not just make a shortcut like the quick launch does! Yikes!! Price: Free

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Total Organizer

Too hard

Very difficult to use as well as not very funtional,not this one for me..... Price: Free

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Fresh Diagnose

Nice but...

Works well but the registration thing bugs me. I dont get this company. Best thing to do is use a disposable email address so they dont spam you! I know you can opt out of the emails but then they still have your email... Price: Free

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SideSlide

Very fun

Super fun to use and not all that difficult-does not write to the registry at all so try it! Price: Free

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ExtractNow

Stay away

Older versions worked fine but now so many bugs I feel like fumigating my PC!Context menus messed up as well as most wont work-sorry but true on XP SP2... Price: Free

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The software developer responded to this review on Nov 02, 2006: You should be shot.

Bitmap to Icon Wizard

Boring

Takes too long and besides most graphics progams will export an image to an icon-before using this application you have to resize your pic to 256x256 anyway.......too many steps Price: Free

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ClipMagic

Very difficult

I am sure it has all the features but I dont have a degree from MIT so I cannot figure it out.... Price: Free Trial ($14.99)

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ThreatFire

Works well

Appears to block a lot of things as far as my testing went,does not use much ram only thing I dont like is no way to disable it starting with windows-I am a dial-up user and only want to run it while online. Price: Free

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ZoomIt

Neato

Dont really know what to use it for but works great. Price: Free

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FastStone Capture

Better than last versions

Last couple versions were soso but this is much easier and more funtional-editor has some cool features...I like..... Price: Free Trial ($19.95)

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nFLVPlayer

Works well

I tried 3 other players and this is the lightest and least intrusive-does not mess up the registry plus it looks nice.Flv format stinks but I guess we will need a player from time to time-this is the one. Price: Free

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Quick Zip

Ugly and irritating

The Gui is butt ugly plus you can right click on a zip file and choose to have Quickzip unzip it but it opens the programs Gui then closes it-bugs me! Price: Free

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Porta

Very nice

Makes nice looking albums very quickly the only downside is to view the original image it pops up a javascript window-cannot figure out how to disable that but still nice and uninstalls very cleanly. Price: Free

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PhotoMeister

Very plain

Does web galleries, slidehows and screensavers very plain-plus why does it have to import the photos-it then stores them wasting drive space? It works fine but who really needs this? Price: Free

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CCleaner

Excellent but be cautious

Love the program but the version here is bundled with the yahoo toolbar-not spy or adware but people should at least know this-yes you can choose not to install the toolbar but there are other versions on the site you can download that are free of this plus the size is only 500kb or so on that version-should make note of this. [Editor: You will be downloading the no-toolbar version from us] Price: Free

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AM-DeadLink

Works great

Good software-just be sure to check the links it finds as bad-it only had an error on a few of mine. Price: Free

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FontPage

I dont understand

Yes it works fine but such a small interface as well as not being able to change colors-view the fonts in 3d is useless as you cannot do anything with them afterwards-I like Amp viewer better..... Price: Free

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Multiple Image Resizer .NET

Really nice

Batch crops better than anything else-take a little practice but well worth the effort-only negative is that bmp to gif conversion is just ok. Price: Free

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WhoisThisDomain

Easy as pie

Who would not want this-a 2 year old can use it and it works great,this dudes software is so useful... Price: Free

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Sandboxie

Very nice

Easy to use and makes sense in this world of spyware and virus-tested it on a site I know left me a little present once and it passed,easy to configure and you can turn off the startup as well as the folder on your desktop. Price: Free

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AutoPics

Really boring

No to look a gift horse in the mouth but this is really boring-cannot see all the interface at 800x600 plus no zoom on the images - pass.... Price: Free

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PDF2HTML

Nice

I like it -not having acrobat installed it converts nice,there is a GUI for it available as well (pdf2htmlgui) which you can search for!I hate acrobat but sometimes need to view one plus this will extract all images from a Pdf file. Price: Free

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Magnifier

Boring

Wierd program-only shows the settings sometimes plus no help file included. Price: Free

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