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Software Reviews

by Philipgrey

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.

XXCLONE Freeware
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003

qleft  Very effective program  qright

XXCLONE Freeware version 0.58.0
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Very effective program. Have been using this for a while now and not had any problems with the copies. Usually use it to create regular bootable copies of my c drive or to upgrade a computer to a larger hard drive. Nice easy program worth a download.

    Review date: Jan 17, 2009

Free Mp3 Wma Ogg Converter
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Does what it should, but...  qright

Free Mp3 Wma Ogg Converter version 4.0.1
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 4
  • Overall: 4

Although this program works well and does convert fairly quick one thing to watch is that when installing, this program does replace some files in the windows system32 directory to do with your encoders. The one it replaced on my system was the Lame_enc.dll file with a much older version. I then had to re-copy the correct file to use Lame 3.98. I do think that when the software writers write these programs that they take into account the fact that some people do keep up to date with encoders. The installation programs should not just blindly go about replacing newer files with older versions. Having said this, The program is still worth downloading once you fix the older file replacement issue. Watch the quality settings to if you plan to customize the mp3 settings as the way it is written can be misleading and you can mistakenly set the quality level to a setting you don't want. Still an ok program.

    Review date: Sep 19, 2008

HD Speed
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Nice and easy  qright

HD Speed version 1.5.3.64
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Nice easy to use piece of software. Tells you most of what you need to know quickly. Make sure though, you take notice of the warning message before you press the button for the write test, as this is a destructive test. Works well and is stable.

    Review date: Aug 26, 2008

EASEUS Partition Master
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista/7

qleft  You must have this  qright

EASEUS Partition Master version 1.6.4
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

This program is effective,easy to use and most of all it works very well. Like another reviewer stated ' "It fills a real gap". Pity Microsoft does not think of great programs that just work without a fuss. Have used this program a lot to do backups and working boot-able copies of windows systems. Have never had one copy or boot process fail. Someone worked hard to fill the need for a partition and resizing program in windows. Excellent program.

    Review date: Aug 21, 2008

WinVorbis
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  simple but effective program  qright

WinVorbis version 1.60
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Tried this piece of software as an alternative to MP3's. Works well. The replay Gain Function does exactly what it should, with no large variations in volume. I find this useful as I make Music CD's With a lot of various artists. Some other MP3 Replay Gain products sometimes yield unsuspected losses in the treble range. Not so in this program. Worth downloading and testing even for a novice. Thanks to whoever made this simple but effective program. p.s The music file sound great to.

    Review date: Jul 28, 2008

Lame Front-End
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Full of features  qright

Lame Front-End version 1.0
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Tried this software as I use mp3's a lot for music. Nice piece of software which has all the features and ease of use you could want if you like the LAME encoder. Got some nice sounding music results with this. When set right It surprised a friend who I was helping with putting her CD's onto her MP3 Players. Would recommend this program to any serious converter searching for a good free front end program. Thanks to the programmers and Snapfiles.com

    Review date: Apr 18, 2008

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

qleft  Nice easy piece of software  qright

Audacity version 1.2.6
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Have been using this for a while without too many problems. It does have limitations when playing back edited portions of music in that it plays such a small section of your changes you don't get a feel for how the changes will come out. Thank goodness for the undo function. I still use this as a main tool for editing wav files, In particular the editing of wave files taken from records. I have found it useful for this due to the click removal tool which is quite effective. For a free program this is a nice piece of software if you are like me and don't have much money. Would still highly recommend this to anyone who needs to do some wave editing and converting.

    Review date: Mar 30, 2008

MediaMonkey
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Nice alternative player  qright

MediaMonkey version 3.0.1
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

This program is well worth a download. It runs ok and is fairly stable. The features take a little getting used to as well as the setup configuration, but once you know how to use it it is fairly easy. There are however, a few points to note. These are the fact that the speed of the burning of Audio CD's is limited to 4x unless you purchase Media monkey Gold. Also in reading the online documentation there seems to be a problem in the way the sync operates. It usually tries to copy all songs weather they exist on your device or not. I have had this problem but if you read the forums on this there are a few suggestions on how to resolve this. Window refreshes could also do with a tweak as well. After all this I would still recommend the program.

    Review date: Mar 30, 2008

Auslogics Registry Defrag
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Great little program  qright

Auslogics Registry Defrag version 4.1.8.93
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

This program is nice and easy to use, Has never caused any instability in the system and gives the user a useful amount of information at the end of the scan. Well worth the download if you are interested in keeping your registry in good condition.

    Review date: Mar 30, 2008

Auslogics Disk Defrag
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista/7

qleft  Great software  qright

Auslogics Disk Defrag version 1.4.13.296
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Nice piece of software. Like all the other comments this program runs well and fast. does not seem to compact free space though, but this is a minor issue so the program is worth using. Thanks to the programmers.

    Review date: Mar 30, 2008

Tanida Quiz Builder

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Spytech SpyAgent

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Demo Builder

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