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Software Reviews

by bhjkarlsson

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.

Process Lasso
  • Free Trial ($14.95)
  • Win2000/XP/Vista/7

qleft  Great program when you need it!  qright

Process Lasso version 2.64
  • Interface: 2
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

Most of the time you really don't need this program, but when you do it priceless. Before I started using it there where several times I had to hardware reboot the PC as a program (usually an old dos program in full screen mode) took all CPU. With this piece of software you actually get a chance to start up the task manager and kill the hanging program instead. And unlike other reviewers I've never had any problems with it.

    Review date: Mar 09, 2008

Visual Task Tips
  • Freeware
  • WinWin XP

qleft  As someone else wrote  qright

Visual Task Tips version 2.3
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Why the h*** hasn't MS included something like this already. Have used tab scope for Firefox for a while and this is equally good. And I just realized it actually updates the thumbnail as you look at it. Now I'm really impressed!

    Review date: Jan 04, 2008

RocketDock
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Best launchbar i've tried  qright

RocketDock version 1.3.1
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

This is the best program of this type I've tried. Easy to use and 0 learning curve. Excellent program

    Review date: Jul 03, 2007

Taskbar Shuffle
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Why?  qright

Taskbar Shuffle version 1.1
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Why has not MS already included this functionality into the taskbar. OK I admit that it's the similar functionality in Firefox taskbar that made me realize the need. Doubt that I would have thought about it otherwise. But when you think about it it's so obvious that you wonder why it's not in windows from scratch.

    Review date: Sep 09, 2006

Lookout
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  I'm usually suspicious when it comes to ms  qright

Lookout version 1.28
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

But this one is actually great. Very fast indexing and search. If you have a large inbox or mails spread out it's a very handy search tool.

    Review date: Oct 11, 2005

TaskSwitchXP
  • Freeware
  • WinWin XP

qleft  A very good replacement  qright

TaskSwitchXP version 2.08
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

It's easy to use and has many small features built in, not just the excellent task switcher. Among others I like the feature to send programs down into the task bar by rightclick on the minimize button. I've used other programs before for that but now with TaskswitcherXP I only need that one.

    Review date: Aug 25, 2005

ForecastFox
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP

qleft  One of the best ff extentions  qright

ForecastFox version 0.8
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

Works fine and is easy to configure. Manages metric measurements as it should and also 24 hour clock. Have forecasts for locations not just in the US, I have Stockholm set up. You can also have different profiles if you have several cities you would like to quickly check the forecast for. A city you often go to or where you come from or so. As I started with, one of the best FF extensions.

    Review date: Jul 13, 2005

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