TerryP

User Reviews by TerryP

The reviews and opinions below are posted by SnapFiles visitors. They do not necessarily reflect our opinion, and they are solely based upon the experience of individual users.

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NetWorx

Must-have traffic monitoring tool

This is an outstanding traffic monitoring tool. Using the deskband option, it's easy to monitor network traffic, launch networking tools and access statistics, while taking up zero desktop space! This program is updated regularly and has never caused a problem. At this time, I would consider this a best-in-class program.

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MP3 Diags

Useful and needed

Unlike most single purpose mp3 file utilities, this takes a different approach by providing mp3 file analysis and repair for multiple issues from a single package. Because of this, the program appears somewhat complex, but the developer has done a good job in making the interface as user-friendly as possible. Even if not used to fix every problem, it's very useful to be able to load up a single program to make an initial analysis for a set of mp3 files.

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FastStone Image Viewer

A superior all-around image viewer

A fast and friendly freeware viewer that's especially useful for working with directories containing large numbers of graphics files. Makes reviewing tasks such deleting, renaming, converting and organizing files a breeze.

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XMPlay

Among the very best pure music players

XMPlay is an outstanding player that has been around for some time and it's still a favorite along with Foobar2000. Small, fast, great sound, and using little resources, this is very well-designed program. Unlike other similar apps that have evolved into bloat-ware, the fact that it's still appreciated while remaining essentially unchanged is testament to its outstanding design and functionality.

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BOOTICE

Great boot sector utility

I've used this tool from its earliest versions and it's fantastic. Bootice simplifies boot sector management tasks using a very easy-to-use interface. It can perform a wide variety of tasks for boot records, partitions, and drives including, but not limited to; viewing, restoring, installing and formatting them. This is probably the easiest to use and most comprehensive tool of its type. It is especially useful for managing multi-partition drives and UFDs (USB Flash Drives).

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Free Download Manager

Good!

This download manager works very well. Good tool.

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DesktopOK

Works!

A simple, good, and easy-to-use program. A real time saver when desktop icon locations become scattered or disappear by programs that change the screen settings.

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MP3val

Easy to use

This is a single purpose tool that does only one thing - validate and correct errors for MPEG audio files. The package consists of a command-line tool and front end. It's a small, fast, easy-to-use, and portable application that can analyze and repair a large number of MP3 files very quickly.

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Orbit Downloader

Too many issues

I did recommended this in the past, but no longer. Like other software, installation requires extra steps to opt-out of web browser tool bars and such, which is aggravating enough. Also this software is updated frequently, but recently these updates have added features that didn't necessarily enhance usability. However, what really changed my mind is the software updater feature that runs in the background, even when turned off in options, and tended to freeze the computer for extended periods of time while it scanned the hard drive and accessed the Web to find updates for installed software. While doing this, the PC became almost unusable. I'm now evaluating freeware alternatives that don't keep adding unneeded features that cause problems, have a more basic installation, and are updated less frequently.

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SpaceMonger

Great software

Although other tree mapping tools have more dazzling interfaces, they also tend to be bloated, to scan slowly, and are generally not as useful as SpaceMonger. This program is extremely fast, provides details about folder and file size instead of just showing bigger or smaller boxes, and allows users to easily make comparisons with a click of the mouse. It's also portable and a tiny download to boot.

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Calendar Magic

Surprisingly good

This one surprised me. It is packed with all kinds of date-related features and handy conversion tools and features, limiting the need to open multiple programs such as calculators, calenders, conversion apps, and notepads. Finally, the interface isn't very impressive, but this program's strength is in its usefulness. Don't judge a book by its cover definitely applies here. Hidden gem and worth keeping.

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Miranda IM

Best one

This is a small download, comes in a portable version, has a small footprint, and is devoid of fluff I don't need. It works with multiple protocols and has an amazing set of configurable features that can be tweaked. This is the IM to use for anyone needing a highly configurable basic chat client that works and can do without the resource hogging eye candy and juvenile gimmicks.

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FreeFileSync

Synchronization made easy

I have used this as my default file synchronization program for over two years. Many file synchronization programs are often either too complex or too simplistic to be useful. This program can perform many complex tasks, but it also has a user-friendly interface with clear and concise buttons and options. The program is very fast, stable, and clean. It also can be executed from the command-line or using scripting languages such as batch files. During installation, it can be installed either either as a regular program or in portable mode.

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PeerBlock

Works as advertised

This program is updated regularly, works well, and it's available in a portable version. It blocks IPs from monitoring surfing and P2P activities and helps prevent ads and malware from infecting your system, providing that extra level of safety and security when using web browsers and file sharing applications.

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NetSetMan

This is good

Makes switching between network settings a breeze without having to rely on memory or needing to look-up the information. Highly useful for laptops that are used on multiple networks or when traveling. The program is very easy to use. The newest version allows either a portable or a regular installation.

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Send To Toys

Indispensable

This is one of those utilities that is hardly known but shouldn't be. Just right click on a shortcut, file, or folder, and send it where you want it to go. With this program, you can send shortcuts to the quick-launch bar, create shortcuts on the desktop, send data to an application of your choice, and much more. This program blends in so well that it's easy to forget it's an installed application and not part of the Windows system itself.

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AIMP

Nice music player

A portable version is also available. This is a quick launching and responsive program with a pleasing and clean interface. Unlike others, I found the sound quality to be excellent. Currently my mp3 player of choice.

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TeamViewer

Makes remote support a snap

A highly useful tool for enabling remote desktop support. It's very easy to setup and use, even for those with minimal technical knowledge. Just tell them to launch it, provide you with their session ID and you are in control while they watch with amazement. This application also includes a chat feature.

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Revo Uninstaller

This is the one to use

The best free uninstaller tool out there. Definitely would classify this as a must have utility that should be on every PC. Comes in a portable version too.

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Radio? Sure!

Simple and good

This app fits the bill for listening and recording from internet radio with no fuss. It has just the right amount of features to get the job done. The fact that it has a limited focus, performs well, and is easy-to-use makes it an appealing and obvious choice.

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LaunchBar Commander

Very good launcher

One of the better launchers with loads of features. Its much more responsive than Quicklaunch and can be easily configured to replace it.

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UK`s Kalender

Useful and nicely designed

Very useful, easy-to-use and quick launching. It has a simple and functional interface. Can't think of a better calender program out there at the moment.

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RJ TextEd

Feature-rich and intuitive

This editor is packed with features and has a well designed interface. Appears as good or better than many of the other more well known editors. Nice job by the developer.

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7-Zip

Best in class

This utility provides plenty of compression related options and the included help files are excellent. Although it can be used as a default type utility without knowing much about the zip/unzip process, it's also an excellent tool for learning what's going on under the hood and highly useful for those with more in-depth knowledge.

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Avidemux

Excellent video editor

This is a great tool for editing videos. I tried a good many editors and most were complicated, but I found this one the most intuitive.

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TreeSize

Quick and easy

Nice little program to analyze folder and sub-folder sizes. Usually the first thing I use before attempting to use more in-depth tools.

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PicPick

Useful tools in a single app

This app provides a suite of handy graphic and screen tools in a single package - tools that are highly useful in many situations.

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Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free

Amazingly thorough and fast

This program updates fast, scans fast, and finds stuff that other Malware scanners miss or take forever to find. This is especially useful if your PC performance is currently affected by Malware or you just need to do a quick check without bogging down performance.

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Everything

I think i found my new default search app

This program is great! It's small, fast, and simple - ideal for quickly locating files and folders. It indexes extremely fast (within seconds) and best of all, it automatically monitors file system changes and updates it's database each time the program starts. My 38GB HDD took about 12 seconds to initially index. There is also a portable version available from the author's web site.

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KompoZer

Pretty good

Good for quick edits or for initial design of web pages. Not as full featured as some, but it's easy to use and intuitive. KompoZer is probably the best free WYSIWYG editor I have used.

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IZArc

Good and reliable

I have used this for sometime and it has always worked without a hitch. It can zip and unzip in many formats and it's my zip utility of choice for everyday use.

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AMP WinOFF

Useful utility

This is the best shutdown utility I have come across. Great interface and full of options. Useful for shutting down the PC after finishing large downloads, or after program processes have completed.

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Dexpot

Nifty

This is the best Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows that I've used yet. Like it says in the description, it has an amazing set of features, yet it's simple to use.

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Google Chrome

Good and simple

This is a very fast browser with an exceptionally clean interface. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but if you need a clean, fast, and simple web browser, then this should fit the bill.

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GreatNews

A great piece of work

This RSS feed reader is a full-featured application in a surprisingly small package. It has a clean and usable interface, works quickly, and is a pleasure to use. A nice job by the developer.

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EaseUS Partition Master

Partitioning made easy

An excellent utility. This is probably the easiest partitioning tool I have ever used. Should be fairly simple even for novices who have a basic knowledge of disk partitions. It even runs within Windows!

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BitMeter 2

Useful and essential tool

A small, simple, app that informs you at a glance whether you are connected and the approximate upload/download speed. Because it's so useful, I have this app running at startup.

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FileNote

So simple and useful

This program makes creating an accompanying text file to describe your download files a breeze. It is extremely easy to use and saves a lot of time by helping to eliminate guesswork.

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The GodFather

One of the best tag editors

The GodFather is a "must have" audio utility, even if you use other tag editors.

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xint

Excellent notepad replacement

This is a small, simple, but nicely designed and very fast editor with many useful features such as column select mode and encryption. It's much better than Nopepad and generally in the same class as Notepad++ and Metapad.

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MediaMonkey

Probably the best music manager out there

MediaMonkey does it all in a very effective way. I haven't found a freeware alternative yet that has so many useful features in such an easy to use package. Although there are some imitators out there, they don't come close to the number of features, clarity of function, or bug-free operation of MediaMonkey. This is high quality software and one of the few non-freeware programs that I highly recommend.

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SUPERAntiSpyware Free

Very thorough scans

Impressive user-friendly interface and easy scanning setup. Real-time protection is not enabled in the free version.

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DSynchronize

Excellent

This is a very small, fast, and simple synchronizer. I highly recommend it.

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Evil Player

Needs more work

Other than using little resources, I didn't find much to like about this player and quickly deleted it. Very few features, plain interface, no menus, no EQ, and no fun.

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WordWeb

Essential

This is a great program. Place a shortcut to WordWeb in the quick launch area to quickly lookup a word's definition, pronunciation, and synonyms. An even quicker method is to copy the word to the clipboard and then launch WordWeb. Works offline too.

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AxCrypt

Couldn't be easier

AxCrypt is tiny, quick, and powerful. Most importantly, it's extremely easy to use. To encrypt a file, just right-click it and select from the AxCrypt menu. From the novice user to the expert, this is file encryption for everyone.

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Audacity

Awesome freeware audio editor

Very intuitive and works great. The first thing I grab when I need to make more complex edits to audio files. Possibly the best program of its type.

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mp3DirectCut

The best audio editor for quick edits

This program is a work of genius. It's small, fast, and efficient. Perfect for fade-ins, fade-outs, getting rid of blank space, or noise spikes from MP3 files. Does everything except for the most complex tasks.

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Advanced SystemCare Free

Very impressive

This is a complex but well-designed program that found an unbelievable number of problems and suggested performance settings for my system. It allows you to backup and restore your original settings and to override any suggested changes. This is definitely worth using, even if you don't think you have any problems with your system.

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SIW

First utility to use when checking out a pc

This is one of the first things I use to check out a PC's hardware, software, and drivers. It's a must-have utility.

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FilZip

Great, but

This was my default compression tool, but over the past year or so of testing it, I found that it had trouble extracting a few zip files. I tried other zip utilities and they extracted fine. Otherwise, this is a great product, but based on these observances, I have to lower my rating to a four.

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XnView

Up there with the best!

This is one of three great freeware graphics viewers available on Snapfiles, and I use all three. XNview is great for quickly viewing graphics and zooming in with the mouse wheel.

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Win32Whois

Good job

It's simple, small, portable, fast, and complete. This should be on everyone's PC.

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Mp3Tag

Well designed and works great!

Certainly one of the better MP3 Tag Editors available. Although not as fast loading as some, it's easy to use and stable.

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Opera

What's not to like?

I have used Opera for years and even paid for the ad-free version. Now that's it's free, there is no excuse for NOT using it! Although not compatible with 100% of web sites (maybe 99.99%), this browser is great! Smooth, fast, clean, and very intuitive.

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Cathy

A winner!

I have used VisualCD for many years, but it tends to lock up so I tried Cathy after reading some of the reviews. This is only a 45kB download. It is super fast, accurate, stable, and uses little system resources. Let me emphasize this again - this is fast! Finally, like it's already been mentioned, the interface is not as pretty as other catalogers, but it still gets a 5 overall for simplicity, speed, and size.

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SpeedMenus

Very nice, but.

This is a good program, but it's a bit heavy on Memory Usage (about 32MB on my system). It has nifty features including user-defined menu titles, transparency adjustment, notes, and scrolling text for the menus. Unlike some other toolbars, it appears to be no limit in the number of menu entries. This is a colorful and useful program that really cleans up the desktop and makes launching programs easier.

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KeePass (Classic Edition)

A good replacement for PINs

I tried this password manager to see how it compared to PINs and I think it's a good alternative. PINs, however, has a much smaller footprint, is quicker to launch, and it's a smaller download. That said, I think this password manager is great for those who need additional features that PINs doesn't have.

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Foxit PDF Reader

Download it, try it, and you will keep it

If you care about stability, speed, and using minimal resources, then this is for you. Once I tested this little PDF reader, Adobe was history.

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Spider Player Pro

A very good player

Nice player with good features in a small footprint. Worthwhile.

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AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

Outstanding

AVG is updated regularly and works flawlessly. I've used it for several years and highly recommend it. For most users, the basic freeware version works so well you wouldn't think it's limited in any way. This is top notch freeware and it doesn't get any better than this.

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Jaangle

Useful

A very useful program for obtaining lyrics and graphics associated with MP3 audio files. Somewhat of a clunky interface and some limitations to organizing mp3's, but highly recommended. Hopefully, it will keep improving.

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Moffsoft FreeCalc

Better than windows calculator

I have used this calculator for about a year now for simple calculations. For more complex calculations, I recommend Allercalc.

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Maxthon

Excellent - but there are competitors

A good tabbed browser using the IE engine. Other similar browsers are Avant, Crazy Browser, and Slim Browser. Most of these are similar in function, but Maxthon has something the others don't - the ability to open links by dragging them with the mouse. I use this feature on a regular basis and find it very handy.

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ieSpell

There when you need it

If you post to forums or do any writing with a PC, you need this tool. Just right click and select to spell check your online post or document. Couldn't be any simpler or unobtrusive.

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ZipGenius

Good if you need this much power

It's good if you need all of its features, but for everyday use it's overkill and unnecessarily large. For regular home use I recommend Filzip for freeware and Winzip or WinRAR for shareware.

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The software developer responded to this review on Apr 03, 2006: Hello. Thank you for your positive comment. I am working on a portable edition of ZipGenius which will be able to run from a USB pen-drive, while keeping all of its features untouched. If you need ZipGenius for everyday use, you may use the context menu items added by ZipGenius. There is a complete set of context menu features, so that you won t have to use the main application every time.

MWSnap

Best graphics snap tool

I tried many snap tools, but keep going back to MWsnap. It's simple to use, small, and effective. A classic that should be on every PC.

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PhotoFiltre

It's amazing....

... that Freeware can be this good. Who needs Paint Shop Pro? This app is small, fast, reliable and with more features than I will ever use. PhotoFiltre provides a complete graphics editing package for the home user.

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SyncBack Free

The best backup utility and free to boot

I have used many sync and backup utilities, including shareware and pay, but SyncBack beats them all in terms of reliability, ease of use, and speed. Definitely a must have!

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Mp3 Tag Tools

If updated, would be the best

This was my favorite Tag Tool but unfortunately, it has not been updated in over 2 years. It's small, fast, configurable, and has the best display of any tag tool I ever used. It is truly one of a kind.

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FreeCommander

Excellent

Best freeware file manager out there. All that's missing is a help menu, although it's easy to use and understand without one.

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POP Peeper

An essential tool

A reliable and very handy tool that is updated regularly. It works with all the major Web-based email providers, letting you work online while it periodically checks your email accounts, giving a visual and/or audio notification whenever you receive new mail.

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CCleaner (Slim)

Highly recommended

Especially for newbies and those that want a simple, easy-to-use, and fast cleaner.

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