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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
The best file-manager 
FreeCommander version 2008.06c
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
The latest version now supports FTP
Review date: Dec 17, 2008
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Good but not great.
Xion Audio Player version 1.0.95
- Interface: 5
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It's a very nice audio player for an average listener, but definitely falls short of catering to a serious listener. The skins are interesting, but not all components of the player get skinned. The plus point is that it uses very light resources.
Review date: Apr 05, 2008
- Free Trial ($29.95)
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
The best "sticky"
NoteZilla version 7.0.83
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 3
- Overall:
I've used numerous sticky utilities and somehow I am always unsatisfied, but this one's the ultimate sticky application. I can safely bet that you would not need any other.
Review date: Mar 30, 2008
- Free Trial ($29.95)
- Win (All)
Great application.
GIF Movie Gear version 4.1.2
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
It's the best GIF animation tool out there. give it a try and you would never use another GIF making tool.
Review date: Feb 03, 2008
- Free Trial ($14.00)
- Win (All)
A classic software.
dBpowerAMP Music Converter version R11
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
It's a must for all audiophiles. Recently I downloaded the R12.4 and tested it to the extreme. Conclusion: It's a classic software.
Review date: Jan 27, 2008
- Free Trial ($29.95)
- Win (All)
Great application.
TextAloud version 2.268
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
It is really fun to hear emails and websites, give it a shot, you shan`t regret it.
Review date: Jan 16, 2008
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Great piece of coding.
SunTimes version 7.0
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It displays the current, past and future days and nights moving across the map of the world. It is a great time-killing application.
Review date: Jan 16, 2008
- Free Trial ($129.99)
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Extremely powerful photo-manager.
ACDSee Pro Photo Manager version 2.0.238
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 3
- Overall:
It is far better than Adobe's Lightroom, but if you don't have the latest and greatest PC then you'll have to live with somewhat sluggish performance. Nevertheless it is still my default image-viewer.
Review date: Jan 16, 2008
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Highly recommended.
Glary Utilities Free version 2.4
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
A world-class utility with lots of features, and that too free!
Review date: Jan 07, 2008
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Go get it!
XnView version 1.92
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It's image-viewer is almost fast as windows internal image-viewer. It has all the necessary features of a top-class image viewer. However, I would like to see a "black" skin in its future version.
Review date: Dec 23, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Very nice freeware.
Transporter Peer to Peer version 5.0.0.9
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It's very easy to use. I tested it and liked it, it's a very basic communication-tool.
Review date: Dec 18, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
It beats the rest by miles.
IZArc version 3.81
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I have been using it since version 3.1 appeared on the scene. And ever since then, it's my default compression tool. At times it (version 3.81 build 1550) does fail to open password-protected RAR files. I hope this minor glitch is fixed in the next build. It's a must-have, so don't wait, download it now!
Review date: Dec 13, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Compression tools champion.
ZipGenius version 6.0.3.1150
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Although I'm a staunch supporter of IZArc, I'm still compelled to say that ZipGenius is a must-have for every power-user. You will not need any other compression suite. The Italians are the FIFA World Cup champions, F1 champions, UEFA Champions Leaugue champions and now the Compression Tools champions!
Review date: Dec 13, 2007
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Very impressive indeed.
jetAudio Basic version 7.0.3
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I gave it a test, and it fulfilled all of my needs without any hassles. Over all it's a great media-player. And to be honest it's very difficult for me to decide which one is the better, WinAmp or JetAudio. JetAudio has all the plug-ins bundled in, whereas, WinAmp relies on 3rd-party plug-ins.
Review date: Dec 12, 2007
- Free Trial ($39.95)
- Win (All)
Extremely easy.
SWFText version 1.3
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 4
- Overall:
Although it is very basic, yet it can create very nice text banners in SWF format. Moreover, it can also export the result as a GIF animation.
Review date: Dec 12, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Nifty application luncher.
SlickRun version 3.9.4
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It's the ultimate application launcher for a power user. A must have for every keyboard user!
Review date: Dec 10, 2007
- Free Trial ($19.95)
- Win (All)
Excellent.
Lock My PC version 4.6
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 3
- Overall:
It locks the system without any leaks. Moreover, it can even lock the CD/DVD trays. Personally I like the feature of displaying a VIDEO while the system is locked. Although "1st Security Agent" has more features, this software is much more simpler. Give it a try.
Review date: Dec 10, 2007
- Free Trial ($49.95)
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Very good indeed.
BlazeDVD Professional
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 3
- Overall:
The plus point of the player is that it is very light on the resources as compared to the giants like PowerDVD and WinDVD. I didn't experience any choppy results. Give it a try, it might become your default DVD playing software. Very efficient work by the Chinese coders.
Review date: Dec 07, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/Vista
A superb bandwidth monitoring utility.
BitMeter 2 version 3.5.3
- Interface: 5
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It has all the features that a bandwidth monitoring utility must have, including a "click through" feature that enables a user to click through the graph. The only drawback in my view is that it takes a lot of memory (from 17MB to 35MB on my PC).
Review date: Dec 04, 2007
- Free Trial ($39.95)
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
The best of the rest.
CaptureWizPro version 3.A
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
I have tested a number of screen-capturing utilities but this is the one to which I revert again and again. It can also capture screen action to video file (AVI). I wish it had a freehand capturing tool too. This is the niftiest of them all. Go for it, you would not regret.
Review date: Dec 04, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Very nice freeware.
WebRipper version 1.31
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Though it has not been updated for quite sometime, it still is a very nice image-downloader with basic features that an average user needs. Definitely a worthy download.
Review date: Dec 02, 2007
- Free Trial ($34.95)
- Win (All)
Super clipboard.
ClipMate version 7.3.00
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
It has the most extensive features of any clipboards. And surprisingly it was easy on resources. The skinning feature is a plus point.
Review date: Dec 02, 2007
- Free Trial ($49.95)
- 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Very nice image-downloader.
PicaLoader version 1.5.5
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 4
- Overall:
I have added it to my arsenal of image-downloaders. In my view, the interface needs to be a bit perked up - but the software does its main objective with finesse.
Review date: Dec 02, 2007
- Free Trial ($29.95)
- 2000/XP/Vista
Remarkable programme.
UpdateStar version 1.1.246
- Interface: 5
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This freeware found all the latest updates of the softwares installed in my PC. A must for every power-user.
Review date: Dec 01, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP
Excellent.
Free Desktop Clock version 2.1
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It's a good replacement for the tray-clock. Give it a shot as the skins are impressive. The plus point is that it also has a time-synchronizing feature.
Review date: Nov 30, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP
Excellent.
Sarbyx TrayClock version 1.1
- Interface: 5
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It's a worthy replacement for the tray-clock. Give it a shot as the skins are impressive and it's light on resources (about 2.5 MB). However, a time synchronizing feature would had been a plus point.
Review date: Nov 30, 2007
- Free Trial ($24.95)
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Two thumbs up.
Ping Plotter version 3.20
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
Certainly one of the best "ping" utilities out there. A must-have for every power-user. It's extremely easy to use.
Review date: Nov 28, 2007
- Free Trial ($29.95)
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Excellent digital diary.
DiaryOne version 6.6.3
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
The interface steals the show. It's the most impressive software in its league. Though at times it seems to munch up a lot of memory (particularly when images are inserted in pages), but that's not a big deal. The Chinese coders have done a wonderful job!
Review date: Nov 28, 2007
- Free Trial ($44.95)
- Win (All)
Very good indeed.
All My Movies version 4.5
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 3
- Overall:
It's a very comprehensive movie database-manager. Its interface outshines all other movie-organizers. Having said that, I'm still hooked-up on EMDB since it's much faster (although very basic) and it fulfills all my needs.
Review date: Nov 27, 2007
- Free Trial ($49.95)
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Thumbs-up to the Romanians!
Backup4all version 3.10 build 284
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
A wonderful application, it has all the features necessary for a backup-utility. It can even backup "open" files. If a backup-utility can backup Agnitum's Outpost then it's a worthy download. And Back4all did that!
Review date: Nov 21, 2007
- Free Trial ($29.50)
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Nice to have backups of licenses.
Product Key Explorer version 1.9.5
- Interface: 4
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 3
- Overall:
Strangely it failed to display the license keys of softwares that were "unzipped". Personally I jot down every license key in a spreadsheet file for later reference.
Review date: Nov 19, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Nifty internet radio player.
Viddi Radio Player version 1.6
- Interface: 5
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It's a player of just 450Kb that offers about 1250 pre-defined radio stations. Very nice indeed, however, a recording option would had definitely made it excellent.
Review date: Nov 19, 2007
- Free Trial ($39.95)
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Go get it!
Wondershare Photo Story Platinum version 2.6.0
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
Although ProShow Gold offers comprehensive features, nevertheless the templates feature of Photo Story Platinum is outstanding. The Chinese coders have done a fine job, so don't wait - download it now.
Review date: Nov 16, 2007
- Free Trial ($27.95)
- Win (All)
A very capable software.
Smarty Uninstaller 2009 Pro version 1.8.0
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 3
- Overall:
I've been using it since the 2006 version was released. It's a very fast yet robust uninstaller. One of my favourite utilities.
Review date: Nov 09, 2007
- Free Trial ($49.99)
- XP/Vista
Very tedious.
Ashampoo UnInstaller version 2.81
- Interface: 4
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 1
- Overall:
All though I like Ashampoo products due to their speed, this one fell flat on its face. The snapshot method takes ages as it scans the directory structure before the installation of an application. This is the 1st uninstaller that I've "uninstalled" from my PC.
Review date: Nov 09, 2007
- Free Trial ($24.90)
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
A very nice desktop calendar.
Active Desktop Calendar version 7.27
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
It has some of the best features packed in a small package. Give it a try, it would not disappoint.
Review date: Nov 03, 2007
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Wow!
XMPlay version 3.4
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It plays all the major formats and has an equalizer (for the finicky listeners). So switch over from WINamp to this player, you will not regret it.
Review date: Oct 28, 2007
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Nifty mp3 player!
STP MP3 player version 1.0 final
- Interface: 5
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It doesn't have the hullabaloo of the mainstream media players, but it manages to play mp3s with the minimum load on resources. It's a great piece of "Russian" coding, go give it a try.
Review date: Oct 28, 2007
- Free Trial ($119.95)
- Win (All)
Automation at its best.
RoboTask version 2.6
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 4
- Overall:
It's a must for every power-user of PC. The possibilities of automated tasks are endless. Give it a try and I am sure you'll get hooked.
Review date: Oct 27, 2007
- Free Trial ($24.95)
- Win (All)
Give it a try.
XYplorer version 6.40
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
XYplorer is the ultimate keyboardist's explorer.
Review date: Oct 16, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
The best.
OpenOffice version 2.2.1
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It has so many more features (ver 2.3) than Microsoft's Office has. Yet it's 100% free. So don't wait, just download it now.
Review date: Oct 06, 2007
- Free Trial ($29.95)
- Win (All)
Nifty bookmark-manager!
Bookmark Buddy version 3.6.3
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 3
- Overall:
A nifty yet comprehensive bookmark-manager.
Review date: Sep 25, 2007
- Free Trial ($29.00)
- Win (All)
It's a complete bookmark management solution.
Linkman version 7.10
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 3
- Overall:
It is a complete bookmark-manager. It organizes, annotates and checks one's favourite Internet pages. It allows to build one's own Export Templates. Just start typing a keyword and get results within an eye-blink, even with large databases
Review date: Sep 25, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP
Interface needs face-lifting
Fact200 version 1.04
- Interface: 1
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Primarily it's a meta-searcher. I just used it twice.
Review date: Sep 20, 2007
- Freeware
- NT/2000/XP
The best!
GreatNews version 1.0 Beta (Build 383)
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It's the best feed-reader. No one comes close to it. Just download it without thinking for another moment. It doesn't even need that .NET !!!
Review date: Sep 12, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
A must-have software!
KeePass Password Safe version 1.08
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It's the best. Imagine a feature that a password-manager should have, and presto this nifty software has.
Review date: Sep 06, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Microsoft, learn from it!
DTaskManager version 1.50
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This is one essential piece of software that a power-user would appreciate. It is a powerful system-monitoring utility that is a worthy alternative to the XP's 3rd-class task manager.
Review date: Sep 06, 2007
- Free Trial ($19.95)
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Very nice.
RecentX version 2.0.13
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 3
- Overall:
It's a very nice application that keeps a record of recent files, folders, applications and websites opened. I've been using it for quite sometime now and I'm hooked to it. It's only drawback is that at times it sucks quite a lot of memory.
Review date: Sep 04, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/Vista
Nifty junk cleaner!
CCleaner version 1.41.544
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
It is a very fast junk (unused and temporary files etc.) cleaner. It also optimizes the PC with a built-in registry-cleaner, a basic start-up tool and an uninstalling-utility. It is a must-have for every user.
Review date: Sep 02, 2007
- Free Trial ($69.00)
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
The name says it all.
1st Security Agent version 7.4
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 2
- Overall:
I've been using it since version 7.1 appeared on the scene. It's a feature-rich security-tweaker. At first glance the user-interface (it's a tree-structure) appears to be intimidating but then is very easy and intuitive to use. It should be in the collection of a power-user who wants to have complete security-control (578 tweaks for XP) over his/her PC.
Review date: Sep 01, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Excellent downloader.
Star Downloader Free version 1.44
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This is my very first download-manager. I upgraded to the Pro version (version 1.52 which also has a leecher) and have been using it ever since. I think almost three years have passed and it is still my default download-manager. It also has a built-in unzipping feature. The only two drawbacks I feel it has is that it supports just two protocols (HTTP and FTP) and that there is no automatic shutdown after the completion of a download session.
Review date: Sep 01, 2007
- Free Trial ($35.00)
- Win (All)
The best!
Atlantis Word Processor version 1.6.1.7
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 3
- Overall:
It's a really compact and fast-loading word-processor with all the features that an average power-user requires. There are no drawing-tools and tables, but who needs them anyway in word-processing. I've been using it since version 1.5 appeared. The updates are without any hassles. One can also save a document in a 256-bit encryption file-format (COD).
Review date: Aug 31, 2007
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/Vista/7
Nifty movie database manager!
EMDB version 0.47
- Interface: 3
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
At less than 1MB and free, this software is a definite download. It manages movie-collection in a very effective way. It sorts the collection in a variety of ways and provides a nice searching feature. The only con is that all of the fields are not visible (if screen size is 800x600) when adding a movie.
Review date: Aug 31, 2007
- Free Trial ($29.95)
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Nice piece of software!
WINner Tweak version 3.8.0
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 3
- Overall:
It's a software that offers quite a lot of features all bundled up in a nice interface. Personally I feel that it's not intended for power-users of PC. However, novice and intermediate users would appreciate this all-in-one software.
Review date: Aug 28, 2007
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Nifty uninstalling utility!
MyUninstaller version 1.36
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Microsoft should learn from this program. It's the fastest uninstalling utility around for free. Although it fails to remove left-over registry values, still it's a great piece of coding.
Review date: Aug 28, 2007
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Nifty start-up manager!
WinPatrol version Build 3
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This is the best start-up manager. I've used numerous others but I always revert back to it. This should be the very first application that one should install after Windows. At the moment I'm using the latest PLUS version (WinPatrol PLUS v12.0.2007.2).
Review date: Aug 27, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Nifty agenda-manager!
Sunbird version 0.5
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Definitely one should give it a try. I never did like Microsoft's Outlook. Sunbird is a worthy replacement for Outlook. I particularly like the option of changing themes.
Review date: Aug 27, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Nifty download-manager!
Orbit Downloader version 2.1.7
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Finally a download-manager that eventually compelled me to switch over from Star Downloader. It must be in the arsenal of those who are constantly downloading stuff from the internet.
Review date: Aug 27, 2007
- Free Trial ($24.99)
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Thumbs up!
CopyToDVD version 4.0.4
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
This fine software made me get rid of the bloated Nero. It's a very nice DVD burning software with just the right features. the best feature of this program is the awesome right-click burning, nothing beats it and the other little feature I like is the woman's voice at the end of a burn session.
Review date: Aug 25, 2007
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Nifty http file-sharing application
HFS - HTTP File Server version 2.2
- Interface: 3
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
A true champion that is extremely easy to use. Even a grandmother can use it to transfer files.
Review date: Aug 23, 2007
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Nifty ftp application
Quick `n Easy FTP Server Lite version 3.1
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 4
- Overall:
It's so simple and easy that even a grandmother can use it to share files. Definitely one should give it a try.
Review date: Aug 23, 2007
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