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Software Reviews

by jcomins

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.

KillProcess
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  What a great little program  qright

KillProcess version 2.32.1
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

KillProcess has saved my neck so often...It is primarily designed to do the one thing Task Manager cannot do remotely decently: kill processes. If you use the Vicious option, and know a little about what processes are necessary, you can keep your computer from crashing more often than you -don't- keep your computer from -not crashing-. It's virtually silent, can be hidden away, and can monitor and auto-kill bad things that shouldn't be there. Also, the CPU and pagefile monitor virtually replaces TM for most purposes. Thumbs up.

    Review date: Aug 29, 2006

Diary Dominator
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP

qleft  It tends to erase all its data  qright

Diary Dominator version 1.22c beta
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 3
  • Overall: 3

This is a great program with lots of great features. However, it has the one teensy problem of being so utterly unstable that using one feature wipes the data from another and minimizing to system tray wipes everything, ad nauseum. If it had come on a CD-ROM, I would have chucked it across the room.

    Review date: Jul 05, 2006

Fresh UI
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

qleft  A little too insanely powerful  qright

Fresh UI version 7.61
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 2
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

If you know precisely what you want FreshUI to do, and you very regularly save System Restore points, and you are careful to implement one setting at a time, and you understand which settings will irrevocably alter your computer (i.e. security lockouts, etc.), and you keep a lucky rabbit's foot nearby, this is the most well-designed, most effective, most truly dynamic and useful tweak tool available. The interface is pristine, ToolTip support is plentiful, and everything is more or less reversible. Registering is painless and emails are few. Best used in conjunction with TweakUI. Oh, and if you make one little mistake or misunderstand a setting, your computer and its user interface are doomed. So if you are brave and cautious, the sky's the limit.

    Review date: Jul 01, 2006

FireTune
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Quick and stable  qright

FireTune version 1.1.1
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

I have cable, 2Ghz Athlon 64, and Firefox 1.5 is usually still slow. I tried other speeder-upper software but had mixed results and the notorious server-dropping problems. FireTune is not nearly as fast as other Firefox-tweakers, but is, in my experience, much more stable, reliable and simple to implement. The only "problem" is the lack of nostalgia--no more top-to-bottom loading of placer boxes! All in all, a decent and effective tool.

    Review date: Jul 01, 2006

Tanida Quiz Builder

Tanida Quiz Builder

Create educational quizzes in Flash format that can be distributed online or as standalone .EXE file.

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.