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by Harlan
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
2000/XP/2003/Vista
Works well, but updating version may not work 
Secunia PSI version 0.9.0.1
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Nice for warning you about insecure and old programs, although "old" isn't the same as "useless." However, I couldn't update from an earlier version. I'm a knowledgeable user, with several "cleaner" tools and an understanding of registry editing, and I STILL couldn't get the update to work. The website has suggestions for solving the problem, but they didn't help me. You might want to wait for the final version to be available.
Review date: Apr 18, 2008
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/Vista
Makes ie7 much more convenient
IE7Pro version 2.1
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Evem though I use only a few of its features, I find that IE7Pro is a major enhancement of IE7's usability. No problems of any sort under WinXP. I ran V2.0 in parallel with IEPlus, and IE7Pro has a lot more features (although IEPlus has a nicer look to its configuration dialog). V2.1 is a significant improvement over V2.0.
Review date: Mar 08, 2008
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/Vista
Ok, but huge memory use
XNeat Windows Manager Lite version 2.5.0.62
- Interface: 2
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 3
- Overall:
I had no problem installing or registering the program under Windows XP, and I like its features. However, it was using more than 20Mb of memory. ... But it's worth a look, since it definitely improves the Windows experience.
Review date: Nov 23, 2007
- Ad Supported (Free)
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Nice, but doesn't index .pst files
Copernic Desktop Search version 2.1.1
- Interface: 3
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 4
- Overall:
I tried using this for a few weeks, mostly to index e-mails and Excel spreadsheets. I used both manual indexing and scheduled indexing. In both cases, CDS periodically cleared the index and rebuilt it from scratch, but without the e-mails stored in my PST files. PST files are an important way to prevent server overload and to free yourself from reliance on server availability. I uninstalled CDS because it couldn't handle this.
Review date: Nov 12, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Excellent...tiny...practical...fun
ZoomIt version 1.51
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
The screen magnifier is the best I've ever seen, but it's the annotation tool that I find is really handy when giving presentations, or even showing someone your screen one-on-one. The countdown timer is off-topic and rather silly, but you're not FORCED to use it, are you? This is a typical SYSINTERNALS program: tiny, functional, handy, unobtrusive, free.
Review date: Jun 30, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Very good, and v2.8 adds useful feature
Undelete Plus version 2.8
- Interface: 3
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Works well. V2.8 adds a "Clean" feature that wipes out old, overwritten files and clears the directory, so future undelete scans are faster and not cluttered with junk file fragments. However, the feature is not documented, and it does not appear to work on USB drives. When I run it on a USB drive, it finds 30,000 files (I stop it after that), and the Clean Disk option doesn't affect that. Even so, it works fine. V2.6 had problems with JPG files, but V2.7 and later work fine for me.
Review date: May 02, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP
Excellent
Unlocker version 1.8.3
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Stays out of the way, pops up when it thinks you need help, works perfectly whenever called on. Small and reliable. It couldn't be better.
Review date: Mar 24, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Simple and cute...but dangerous
FontRenamer version 1.0
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 1
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Helpfully turns cryptic names into plain English. BUT...some of those names (*.FON, mostly) are hard-coded into Windows and Windows applications, and changing their names makes them unavailable. Windows and other programs will instead use some other font, and as a result many dialog windows will be misformatted. This isn't just ugly, it prevents you from selecting action buttons, selecting from lists, etc., so you'd better be prepared to restore some files to their original names. Since there won't be any error messages from the affected programs, you may have to do some guessing.
Review date: Dec 19, 2006
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Ok, but there are better on snapfiles
ZipGenius version 6.0.2.1060
- Interface: 3
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I've had this for a year. Works well, but it is huge and its interface is confusing. Views but DOES NOT EXTRACT files from archives created by LHA. Author is enthusiastic, and program is regularly updated, but the emphasis seems to be on pretty screens rather than on producing a fast, compact, and intuitive program without bugs. The "Suite" version includes an FTP program and a file splitter, both OK but nothing special. There are lots of other well-reviewed freeware archiving programs on this site that strike me as more practical.
Review date: Dec 18, 2005
Create interactive Flash movies and tutorials to show how applications and systems work.
