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The reviews and opinions below are posted by SnapFiles visitors. They do not necessarily reflect our opinion, and are solely based on the experience of individual users.
- Freeware
98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Excellent program 
IZArc version 3.81
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Convenient tool I am wondering when it will compress to rar too. A small question, what the left panel used for? For me, I think it is a file explorer, but it is not working that way. As it only display the current zip file, why not put it in one line and leave the browser search for the archive?
Review date: Jan 06, 2008
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003
If you look at this carefully
Filseclab Personal Firewall version 2.5
- Interface: 2
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 3
- Overall:
For blocking the port scan, sygate do it well. To block the leakage, I believe sygate leaks, because there is no way a firewall without a spyware scan can survive. Filseclab is not as good as it looks in the test. It is just a little better than window xp firewall, and maybe as good as zonealarm free. It seems that comodo personal firewall is a good free firewall now. The jetico looks good, but never learn something even in learning mode.
Review date: May 19, 2006
- Freeware
- Win XP
Get worse
Windows Defender version BETA 2 1347
- Interface: 3
- Features: 2
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 3
- Overall:
I don't know what happened. The antispyware is pretty good and reliable. After microsoft makes modification, it begins to suck. The monitor for the registry was once very sensitive, now there is totally no response. It sucks.
Review date: May 15, 2006
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
A good software
AviSplit version 1.42
- Interface: 3
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It does more than other splitter or joiner. It clip, attractive because some converter doesn't have the option to determine where to start and where to stop. But it is limited to avi. Another thing is that the clipping is not as fast as virtualdub's direct stream copy, more precisely, much slower. I don't why. I spend about 20 minutes to split a 300M file. Is there something wrong? A normal converter need 30-50 minute to convert this file. Is there anything wrong?
Review date: Feb 03, 2006
- Freeware
- Win (All)
An excellent freeware
ZipGenius version 6.0.2.1060
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
As title said, an excellent software. I installed in my system as a backup once ... expires. But here are some personal opinions. I don't like the big buttons, which look like a big stone on the top, especially those two grey ones. I think maybe more and smaller buttons should be put in toolbar. The other thing is about easy to use. I spent nearly one hour to figure out how to zip a file, because I can't see any file in the inbuilt browser. If you count how many clicks you need to finish a compression, you will know why I didn't mark the ease of use excellent.
Review date: Feb 03, 2006
- Free Trial ($39.95)
- Win (All)
Miss something important
AVS Video Tools version 4.3
- Interface: 3
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 2
- Overall:
I've tried lots of video converters recently. AVS is among the best sharewares I tried. It succeeds in converting mpg to avi (with watermark). It supports more formats and allows resizing. However, I can't find cropping (or is it too implicit?) -- that is what I am looking for. Yes wmv can be converted into avi, cropped in virtualdub and then convert back to any format, but, is that a waste of time beside possibility of lost quality? On my computer, at least 1 hour is needed to convert a movie. I don't want to triple it. In my opinion, a good video converter should: a. support as many popular formats or leave places for plugin (ok); b. integrate basic function and filter during conversion (crop and more); c. provide some calculation /indication /advice /instruction on quality vs. output file size, make the configuration easier to avoid making a 1G avi from a 163M wmv! d. don't include BS's, e.g., burning, except you can do better than nero.
Review date: Jan 28, 2006
- Free Trial ($49.95)
- Win (All)
The demo is ugly
CDH Media Wizard version 11.01
- Interface: 2
- Features: 2
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 1
- Overall:
I was looking for something that can crop the video -- get rid of the black or whatever colored edge. VirtualDub can do it but limited to avi. So I search, I found blaze media something, and I found the function called crop video, it just changed the start and end point of processing. Then I found this one, very impressively after installation I found a same interface as I just saw in blaze. And without surprise, the cropping did the same thing. Nah, that is enough, softwares that copy each other and don't even have the function named as standard definition are not worth buying. I unistalled it. Maybe I should just find some converter and go back to virtualdub.
Review date: Jan 26, 2006
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Except a flaw in the interface, it is perfect
XnView version 1.80.3
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I think the buttons are too big. Thus the toolbar has to be separated. But the one on the top of file list area is a trouble -- if I choose the preview window on the right side, and enlarge it to some extend, some of the button is covered and not accessible anymore. It is annoying sometimes. Besides that, I prefer 1 as lossless conversion to JP2 file. Also it will be great if we can choose how many columns or rows when we attach multiple photos together. For photo printer I like a 2*2 or 3*3 attachment.
Review date: Jan 25, 2006
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Excellent replacement for acdsee
FastStone Image Viewer version 2.29
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This is an excellent software. However, I think following change might be helpful for use. 1. The preview area can be put in different location. 2. Remember what option I used for display -- detail, thumbnail or brief. 3. Make combine image possible, e.g., put 4 images into a 2*2 array and save as a new file so that I don't need other software to print photos. 4. Right the program start slower than [..] 3, especially after new installation. 5. Is that possible to find similar images in many folders? sometimes I changed the resolution or cropped the image and put into other place. Later on they are useless and it just take time to find them. 6. Is that more reasonable to use 1 as lossless conversion from any format to jp2? Right now it shows 10 and in the box it says 1000. A little confusing. 7. And if there is a preview for conversion it will be great. Anyway, this are just minors. I am glad I can uninstall the [..] now and enjoy the jp2 format.
Review date: Jan 25, 2006
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Yeah, looks good but causes problems
RegSeeker version 1.45.0505
- Interface: 1
- Features: 2
- Ease of use: 1
- Value: 2
- Overall:
It looks good at first sight. But my file explorer was messed up after I stopped it from the reg clean. I don't know why it scans whole hard drive during reg cleaning, other reg cleaner works fast and does nothing to my matlab folder. After I stopped it I found right mouse menu became a black box. And there is NO backup file for me even the "backup before delete" box kept checked. I will remove it from my computer no matter if I can restore it. This is not for me, I will stick with tweaknow regclean.
Review date: Jan 14, 2006
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Very good firewall
Sygate Personal Firewall version 5.6
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I installed it on many computers. I tested several others and feel this one the best. More features are hidden behind menus. But sometimes it annoyed me for displaying the alarm message during I am gaming. I check the box for never telling me again but it never works. And I after allow the service to access internet it still block it :) Anyway, this is the only bug I found till now. I believe if they combine the feature of process explorer, it would be a great program, but they stopped effort to develop it and even stop the support :) I feel happy when I saw the port scan log and found someone was blocked. You will be happy with that too.
Review date: Dec 29, 2005
- Freeware
- Win (All)
It works, but conflict with firefox later
NetVeda Safety.Net version 3.61
- Interface: 3
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 4
- Overall:
I installed 3 firewalls at a time -- xp firewall, sygate personal and netveda. The netveda responses first on almost all the network accesses. And both netveda and sygate response more correctly than xp firewall. The two agree to each other. The program has lots of features that I did not have time to figure out. Seems somewhat powerful than sygate, however, after my firefox updated, I can't browse the internet (firefox not start up response after I double click). After uninstall netveda everything is fine.
Review date: Dec 29, 2005
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