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Software Reviews

by NutWrench

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.

SpeeDefrag
  • Freeware
  • WinXP/Vista

qleft  Needs a feature  qright

SpeeDefrag version 3.0
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 2
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 3
  • Overall: 2

I leave my computer on all the time and I think this program would be a lot more valuable if it had an option to NOT shut down your computer after defragging. (i.e. continue booting to the desktop) That way, I could restart/defrag my computer before I go to bed it would be defragged by the time I got up the next day.

    Review date: May 22, 2006

Visual Task Tips
  • Freeware
  • WinWin XP

qleft  Nice desktop addition  qright

Visual Task Tips version 1.0
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

This is pretty handy. I hope a future version will support grouped taskbar buttons. :)

    Review date: Apr 13, 2006

TrueCrypt
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Excellent security software  qright

TrueCrypt version 4.1
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Anyone who has used Scramdisk and it's later, commercial version DriveCrypt will love TrueCrypt. You can choose to use either container files or disk partitions to hide your encrypted data. Container files can be named whatever you want (i.e. so you could call the container file 'backupgames.zip'). In addition to using a password to access your encrypted volume, you can also require the use of a keyfile, which can be any other file on your hard drive. This ensures a huge keylength, making the volume very difficult to crack. This program and AxCrypt (for encoding large numbers of small files) should provide for most of your encryption needs. Check it out.

    Review date: Jan 26, 2006

AxCrypt
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Very good encryption utility  qright

AxCrypt version 1.5.4.2
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

AxCrypt adds a new right-click extension to Windows Explorer making it very easy to use. AxCrypt temporarily caches the password you use, so you can encrypt many files and folders at once. Decryption works transparently, so if you enter the correct password for the first file, then any other file encrypted with the same password will decrypt automatically. This is really a nice feature as things like text files and pictures will remain encrypted on the disk but they will decrypt 'on-the-fly.' You can also right-click on encrypted files and select 'rename.' This will convert the file name to gibberish, hiding what it might contain. But when you decrypt it, the proper filename will display in whatever application you use (MS-Word, Notepad, IrFanView, etc). AxCrypt will also let you encrypt files with an automatic decrypter, so you can send an encrypted file to another person who doesn't have AxCrypt installed. All they need to know is the password.

    Review date: Mar 30, 2005

LookDisk
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Excellent search utility  qright

LookDisk version 2.90
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

This program can also search text files within zip files. Not just for file names, but within the text files themselves. It also has very nice results options, i.e. it will show a user-defined number of text lines before and after the search term, like a web search result. You can then click on the search result and either open the file directly or open the containing folder in Windows Explorer.

    Review date: Mar 30, 2005

CDBurnerXP
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Lots of improvements  qright

CDBurnerXP version 2.2.9
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

There's finally an option in this version to pick your own write speed for DVDs. Excellent. This program is better than a lot of commercial software. -- Nut

    Review date: Jul 10, 2004

PhotoFiltre
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Keeps getting better and better . . .  qright

PhotoFiltre version 6.0
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

Has great features and is very easy to use. If it did Layers, it would be perfect. :)

    Review date: Jun 30, 2004

Directory Lister Pro
  • Free Trial ($20.00)
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Very nice  qright

Directory Lister Pro version 0.7
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 3

It's fast and easy to use. The only thing I wish it would do is indent the subdirectories. It would make the directory structure easier to read. --Nut

    Review date: Jun 26, 2004

GoodSync

GoodSync

Backup your files and/or synchronize them with another location.

Spytech SpyAgent

Spytech SpyAgent

A powerful monitoring solution to record PC activity, including keystrokes, email and more.

Demo Builder

Demo Builder

Create interactive Flash movies and tutorials to show how applications and systems work