i concure as to the usefullness of Revo...

but for the paranoid, or just really fussy... if you want to completely remove any programs what you need is an 'installer/uninstaller'...

Zsoft Uninstaller is a good one, and free...
http://www.zsoft.dk/
http://www.zsoft.dk/index/software_details/4

as for trying progs out before truly installing them...
Sandboxie... also free...
http://www.sandboxie.com/


btw... for those saying there are remnants left after uninstalling... are you bothering to reboot before checking for leftovers?
as for the leftover contect menu... it would likely make sense to go into AllMedia's settings and uncheck the shell integration Before you uninstall...

Installed went to run and i get "AllMedia Grabber needs a screen resolution 1024x768. AllMedia Grabber will exit now. Change resolution and run program again"
My screen was set correct and i still get the same message.
NOW the time is up and I still Havent tried the software thats is installed on my XP.

Working well, tried it on GGAOTD games folder...extracted swfs just fine! the screen resolution requirement is a bit of a nuisance, especially as it requires a restart to take effect.

The interface and help files are clear, and as an inveterate image saver I can see having some fun with this app! I've often done image searches to grab sigs & tags from IncrediMail attachments, and this opens many formats I haven't been able to extract before.

Thanks as alway, GAOTD guys!

#30 and 51 make good points: just because you find media on your hard drive does not mean it's OK to reuse it. Also, since windows search will find such files for me already, why do I need to add another program to do the same thing?

I gave up after finding minimal info in their help section or any more detailed instructions toward this software's use. Two attempts to create icon files went for naught and I already have software that performs other tasks such as extracting, grouping, etc. better or easier. Thumbs down on this.

i concure as to Revo...

but, for all the paranoid... or just fussy...
if you want to be able to completely remove any programs you install, what you need is an 'installer/uninstaller'...

Zsoft Uninstaller is a good one... and free...
http://www.zsoft.dk/
http://www.zsoft.dk/index/software_details/4

also, for those who uninstall programs and then still find traces... are you bothering to reboot after having uninstalled? or just uninstalling then goin' 'oh look there be pieces left' ?

another handy program, for checking things out before truly installing, and also free...
Sandboxie
http://www.sandboxie.com/

I downloaded, ran the software; works perfectly fine... So I'm going to give it a thumbs up! :) .... I've had no issues with windows so far with this software (I'm using WinXP). Haven't tried uninstalling yet, hopefully nothing happens!

Thanks GAOTD :)!

Void (#4) -- Memory does indeed become fragmented and can be defrag'ed. Search for 'malloc'. Users shouldn't talk about developers when they themselves haven't a clue...

I have tried this program on XP Pro and doesn't look good.
I tried a PDF that contain many photos and didn't find any.

And if the directory contain non-English character on my system which has the Regional and Language option set to English for Language for non-Unicode programs, it crash the program.

Seems like this program doesn't support Unicode and will crash for any non-English character in the file name.

And as other people mentioned, you can't control where you save the files.

This is just a poorly written program.

Many Thanks! The GUI is klunky, the graphics leave a lot to be desired, it has very little style or grace, BUT this little gem lifted the graphics out of an old late eighties DOS based game I've been packing around on a 3.5 floppy for 15 years - something all of my high powered [high priced] graphics editors failed to do.
Many thanks for a gem, and a blast from the past GAOTD
nwcurtis

Installed on XP Home sp3 without a problem. Searched my 180gb drive in about 15 minutes. Amazing how many duplicate images it found, and how much crap is loaded onto the computer when one goes surfing. A nice program to find images and sound files when you "loose" them or just forget you have them.
People if you pay attention during setup you will notice it has the option for shell integration, all you do is uncheck the box.

Thank you FOTIS & GAOTD for another handy program.

well having tried out the program, I have to say,

interesting, very interesting

I've used it in several situations already and it found easily all types of media, and with out a size problem, for example one wav file found was 1,720,364 bites in size, so to the one about the 1 meg limit, apparently that was just for the trial version

not sure how useful this will be, but I'll stick it in my archives

excellent program, works fine. i have test other similar programs like Resourse Grabber, but AllMedia is really a good grabber. Thanks GAOTD.

#65 Graham: Yes, I think you are probably right about the accounts. Sorry about getting off topic because I have not downloaded or installed this utility, but I have very little doubt that if I do, I would have no problems running it with Vista Home Premium because I have not had any Vista related problems in the past that other people have reported and the reason could very well be the fact that I am the only account on my computer set as administrator. I have always wondered why so many people hated Vista and had so many problems with it and honestly, I have not. I thought I would hate Vista and intended on downgrading to XP right after getting my new laptop, but I actually like it and all its hidden gems. It is in no way perfect, but what is?

to trinsec,if you are having problems uninstalling,i have an uninstaller that doesn't just remove some of the files,it removes every trace of the program,it is called cleanse uninstaller,it works great,not sure where i got it(may have been here)but i got it free.you might try it,another good one is revouninstaller,hope this helps.as for me i don't think this program would be of much use to me,so i'm gonna pass,thanks anyway GAOTD

goodgotd and V-O-I-D

V-O-I-D, you are totally wrong, RAM can in fact, as goodgotd said, become fragmented, and pretty much in the manner he/she said, how ever their description of the "de-fragmenter's" wasn't totally right.
true a lot of the "memory de-fragmenter's" are just a waste of time, how ever a few out there are much the same as say Norton's Speed disk for hard drives, in that the contents of RAM are written to a temp file on the hard disk, then re written back into memory in a continuous, or contiguous, manner, thus in effect defragmenting RAM

as for this program, the jury is still out

I did install the program, went into options and turned of the context menu. Then I created a shortcut to AllGrab.exe in the sendto folder. When I right-click a file and select Allgrab.exe from the sendto context menu, it does, in fact, bring up the program with the selcted file (or folder) loaded for searching. Unfortunately, probably because I have not had the time to read the instructions, I have not yet been able to find ANY media???

Rich asked:

A question for those who install Giveaway programs using a virtual environment: Is there a Virtual program out there which would allow the user to save what they have done to the permanent hard drive after testing, if they actually like the program?

I thought I'd answered this earlier but I see it was never posted so I'll try again.

I asked this question in the forums a few weeks ago and was given a recommendation for 'Mojopac' ( http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/how/demo.jsp ) which is incredibly clever software. It's not quite exactly what you were asking for, but it may do the job in a different way for you.

The full version would make a fine GAOTD by the way (hint, hint!)

G

#58 Peeps

Remember you have only 10 hours 4 minutes left to download and install this little beauty.

#36 G: Just a quick comment regarding your UAC issue…turning off the very annoying UAC was one of the first things I did after receiving my new HP laptop with Vista Home Premium and I have not had any problems installing and running any programs what-so-ever because of it. I am the only account holder on my computer (set as Administrator) and I have no Standard accounts set up. Also, when I right-click on any shortcut program/game icon, my “Run as administrator” link is not greyed out and has the red, green, blue and yellow MS icon next to it. Of course I believe all you’re saying, but just wondering why some people have trouble after turning it off and others don’t.(?)

Interesting! Maybe it's because you only have an admin acct with no standard accounts? (I've seen other features that behave differently if a system has no user accounts...)

I'll look into this a little deeper. Thanks for the pointer, there's obviously more to this than I thought.

Graham

Ran it on a file which has many images I wanted. It found none of them. Sad, sad crap.

Thank you Giveawayoftheday!
Every day is like Christmas. All these awesome programs for free.
As a desktop publisher I just love AllMedia Grabber.
I am always looking for graphics and did nor realize how many were already on my own system.
Thanks again.

#36 G: Just a quick comment regarding your UAC issue...turning off the very annoying UAC was one of the first things I did after receiving my new HP laptop with Vista Home Premium and I have not had any problems installing and running any programs what-so-ever because of it. I am the only account holder on my computer (set as Administrator) and I have no Standard accounts set up. Also, when I right-click on any shortcut program/game icon, my "Run as administrator" link is not greyed out and has the red, green, blue and yellow MS icon next to it. Of course I believe all you're saying, but just wondering why some people have trouble after turning it off and others don't.(?)

to Rich, 47#: use of virtual program, in my case Returnil
You have to reboot into "Non"-Protected mode and then re-install. I download files to non-system partition, then make a fresh installation to c:\
PC is configured so that it boots up non-protected (with mamutu and virus program updating), then I pretty much switch into "Session lock" right away which is on the fly (just activate and done).

Hope that answers your questions, if not post something in the comment section.

Since I just had to reboot, AllMedia Grabber install disappeared, no leftover in the context menu either and I have a few hours to figure out if I want to permantently go for it.

Greetings, AlexSJ

Thank you for the info on Revo uninstaller. :o) I am gonna go check it out now.

Quite the shame that it cannot extract sprites and the like from games made with "GameMaker" (Yoyo Games)

Have read most of comments;and, seems app provokes alot of attention. My copy is activated but not installed yet because my F=Secure AV continues to pop-up a SPYware advisory ,,,specifically "ADware Pro".
if this is full retail version, it should be 100% CLEAN. Since I set F_Secure to stop immediately at point of detection , my other thought is since F-Secure would not allow setup to begin, is the ADware Pro spyware part of GOTD repacking the app to its own setup.exe Activation routine?? Anyone else detecting SPYWARE ATTEMPTING ACTIVATION OF INSTALL ROUTINE?? Or could be an anominally.
Lastly, whose SPYWARE is it....GOTD covertly slipping it into each daily giveaway; or is it the Author's covert goodie unknown to GOTD guys??? Any ideas, comments or suggestions? RSVP.

I'm pleased with this program. It's well designed, fast and easy to use. It has a nice clean user interface. I like the way that extracted media files are sorted into different folders per media type, and I like the browsing facility.

I have no problem with the temporary storage of extracted media files in a subfolder under Program Files. The Edit menu allows you to select and move files to another destination of your choice. Choosing the destination folder after having decided which files to keep is more convenient for me. I also like the fact that it's so easy to delete files you don't want to keep.

I'd prefer to have been given the option to select Windows shell integration during installation, but that is a minor quibble. It's a simple matter to deselect it through the Options menu if you don't want it.

This one's a keeper! Thanks to FOTIS and GotD.

Good piece of software and runs on my laptop and Vista business. It is very similar to the freeware "Mean Rat Peters"

Good one GAOTD!

# 33
I went to your website or at least click on the link and assume it was your website. http://freeespirits.com/index.htm?3d/friends.php

I did a search for ShellNew_AddRemove and Shell but did not find it on the site. I would like to try it instead of having to go in to the registy.

Never mind, I reread your comment and noticed it took me to the Recourses page and found it listed at the end.
Thanks for the program.

Yeah, I was hoping for this to have a better review.
I would have liked to use this prograg to find music that I created
and possiably forgot about. I'm working on a sound effect database and sometimes I put sounds in the wrong folder and forget that I even made it.

If anyone has better news about this program please let me hear it now

One Luv Ja Dub

# 13 Revo Uninstaller. Just use some common sense when using it. It is great free ware and can kill anything. Even the hard to kill apps like Mcafee, when their own removal tool fails.

http://www.revouninstaller.com/

I missed this one last time it was on. Thanks for putting it back on. I so far have used it to obtain the music out from some of my games and it works great.

Tomorrow this will go for $32.90, better hurry while its free. For you people with little or no experience..........open up windows search and search for all pictures on a drive. It takes time but its pretty good results for a novice.

Same as every other day, mostly I see comments complaining about non-issues, and lots of thumbs-up to flat wrong comments. In addition to my earlier comments:

#2, zhuk, as I said, Softpedia is hardly a reliable source. Frankly, I get irritated with people who quote other reviews or the developer's website or post links to other reviews. People should have brains enough to do their own research. I much prefer to see users here post their own experiences with the GOTD version being offered. In addition to a number of multi-megabyte images, AllMedia Grabber extracted an 85MB SWF file, in my very limited testing.

#9, G, I think you like to complain for the sake of complaining. I've already addressed the context-menu non-issue. If you want to know how AllMedia Grabber really organizes its folders, read my comments from the previous version's giveaway. The UI shows you a count of precisely how many elements of each type were extracted--no need for playing games with the folders. The stuff in Program Files is temporary storage--normally, you would save the extracted resources which you were interested in elsewhere, and delete the rest. The people who say that AllMedia Grabber doesn't let you specify where to save selected items to, haven't used AllMedia Grabber. Further, it lets you use Windows Explorer if you prefer. Complaining about not finding the programmer is the dumbest thing I've read so far today. Do you even know who the programmers of most software are? And if some program actually credits Joe Blow, of the billions of people alive, precisely which Joe Blow would that be? If a programmer is competent, why would they be pestering others in forums? "Um, I'm trying to figure out the difference between '+' and '-', can you help me?" And why would they use their real name? Pardon my droning on, I just get tired of all the stupid negative comments each and every day. As for your comment #35, you don't know what security software is actually alerting on, it could have simply been requested exclusive access.

#36, Zham, while I certainly don't guarantee AllMedia Grabber's correctness, I did see extractions from PDF files.

Now for a possible real bug--I noticed a number of corrupted images. Since parts of the images were valid, this looks more like an extraction issue than a misidentification issue, but it could be due to finding partially-overwritten images in "slack" space.

Uninstall bug of first version has been fixed. Deletion the “AllMedia Grabber (Extract)” entry from right click menu when uninstall program.
Anyway, there are and a option under “Options-Settings” to remove it. At least test it before leave your comments here.

You're right, I didn't do a right-click to confirm if it ws left behind after I uninstalled; what I did was uninstall with Revo and look at the list of 31 registry entries that was left behind.

G

to joe,
If you wanna extract swf use flash decompiler trillix, which brings me to another thing, can the gaotd team put that as a full give away?

A question for those who install Giveaway programs using a virtual environment: Is there a Virtual program out there which would allow the user to save what they have done to the permanent hard drive after testing, if they actually like the program?

As a way to circumvent the incomplete uninstall issues, would it be possible to turn off the shell integration during installation and add the program's shortcut to the sendto folder instead? That way, you could just click on the file and use sendto, which is already in the context menu, to open Allmedia Grabber for that particular file (or folder?)
Has anyone tried this?

Sorry, correction! It crashes if have a Japanese name in one of the files. :(

Crashes if you try it in a pendrive..
At least here crashed.

But It's a very nice software, thanks. :)

I install all GAOTD software on VirtualBox first. If everything looks good (and uninstalls properly), I then install it on my real machine.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

"e.t.c."? What, pray tell, do you think that stands for? (et cetera. "etc." Not "ect.", either.)

RE to #9

based on the file name alone, AllMedia Grabber means that it 'grabs all media.' oh and you know what, after it puts files in its own directories, you can OMG MOVE THEM YOURSELF. For me, I *want* the behavior you describe as: "grabbing everything they can find to create a library of icons etc...." -- maybe the option to sort by program would be nice, though.

as for the uninstall, you act as if this is the only program that doesn't uninstall cleanly. Other programs that don't uninstall cleanly: Firefox, Webroot's Spysweeper, Zoomtext Xtra, anything at all made by Norton .. if programs uninstalled cleanly there wouldn't be a reason for registry cleaner prgrograms to exist. *DUH*

@2 zhuk:
The 1 MB limit is only for the DEMO version presnted in your link.
Here we have a licensed version from GAotD. That's a different cup of tea.
And already +53 at the moment voted for your comment. All of the voters didn't read very well.

HoiHoi :) Thanxs for this prog, its working oke. Greetzzzz

Do not work at all, tried to extract from multiply pdf and swf, was not able to extract anything. Was only able to extract files from an zip files, but there are lots of zip files extractor out there, which even can make zipfiles.

Fubar wrote:

#5, gtoal, the Fotis website gives clear instructions on setting the Vista program compatibility for all users to “Run as administrator” (click the Troubleshooting button, next to the Screenshot buttons on the webpage).

Yes, clear instructions that don't work if UAC is turned off.

I can understand why you would not realise this because it is not obvious until you actually do it, but developers releasing code for the masses ought to be aware of issues like this. Of course if it's a one-man 'team' and there's no software QA department, no rack of different test environments, etc etc, then they have no way of knowing either. Unless they read the comments posted here and pay attention to them (which this guy apparently doesn't since he's repeated the same problem as from September, with the left-over context menu stuff on uninstall :-/ ). Anyway, I think this UAC issue has been explained at least half a dozen times since I've been here in the last 4 months.

If you don't believe me I'll be happy to post a screen shot this evening (after work) showing the 'run as admin' box greyed out.

However despite some minor criticism, I think this one is worth keeping. Once you realise its main purpose is to amass a huge library of icons etc rather than to examine the innards of any particular one program. As such it works pretty well.

Oh - I almost forgot - when I was scanning the Program Files directory with it, the program must have been opening files in a read/write mode rather than just read mode, because Anvir popped up a warning that a program was trying to modify its .INI file! (I screenshotted that too which I can also post later, but am tied up for the next 10 hours so can't post it yet...)

G

Finally... thanks for the upgrade !!
ATTENTION : you have to register in every user account if you have more then one !!

#31:

yes Revo Uninstaller is freeware - http://www.revouninstaller.com/


Personally, I know bugger all about registrys etc :P but I've used Revo numerous times in its "moderate" uninstall mode (which gets rid of registry entries etc that Windoze Add/Remove doesn't) & its been fine :)


I'd say go for it.