http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/software Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: software - Recent Posts en-US Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:34:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6541#post-67740 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:30:02 +0000 BuBBy 67740@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>re - GMMan annoyance.</p> <p>you got it 100%</p> <p>Summary - before announcing a conspiracy theory about the &quot;nasty GOTD software&quot; - make sure you understand how to use your own software. Otherwise you might look like a git.</p> <p>closed. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6541#post-67739 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:04:26 +0000 GMMan 67739@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Dirty secrets? Maybe, but not what you&#39;re referring to. If you set the filters right, and if you actually read what exactly is the action on each item, you&#39;ll find that most entries are &quot;enumerating&quot; or &quot;reading&quot; entries, and not &quot;writing&quot; them. Also, please note that a great amount of these activities are either caused by the libraries that the Wrapper uses, or by Windows itself. That&#39;s why you set a filter: to see what you want.</p> <p>If you upload a Process Monitor log, I can show you what &quot;changes&quot; the Wrapper actually does. As far as I know, the changes caused explicitly by the wrapper are its couple registry keys, bookmarks added to your browser, and extracting the installer for activation. Other changes are just made in the process.</p> <p>&lt;start showing extreme annoyance&gt;BTW, how did you miss the action column? It tells you the type of action.<br /> Please, next time don&#39;t copy-and-paste a huge log of Windows activities. Billions of them happen in the time it takes you to read this, and uploading them costs bandwidth and storage. Do some research before posting stuff like this.&lt;end annoyance&gt; </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6541#post-67725 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:50 +0000 watcher13 67725@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Sorry, flustered, but your misunderstanding what&#39;s going on. First, a process monitor monitors everything that&#39;s going on on your computer, regardless of what activated it or put it there in the first place. I&#39;m not trying to offend you, but the way you put it makes me think that you may have not realized that you&#39;d already gotten some of this stuff on your machine and it all didn&#39;t - I can absolutely assure you that it didn&#39;t ALL - come from the GOTD wrapper. Also, some of the things you sited are obviously natural parts of any install. I say this respectfully - but I must say it - perhaps you should have done some web research on some of this stuff before you assumed that most of it came from the GOTD wrapper. For example, all the entries concerning Windows Defender are natural parts of Defender&#39;s operation. Part of what Defender always does to try and make sure no malware - including from ANY installer - got on to your system. And Defender comes from Microsoft. It&#39;s built in to Vista, for example. And the placing of things into a temporary directory that came out of the orginal zip file is a function of whatever zip software you use - quite probably of Microsoft&#39;s own zip handling routine, in your case. Any install that encompass a zip archive - as Arcamania uses whether your get it from GOTD or not - is going to create those files.</p> <p>The way to determine what an installer actually puts on your machine is not to use a process monitor, but an install analyzer. Here&#39;s one built into an uninstall utility. I currently use it just to analyze installs, because I use Revo Uninstall, which I feel is an even better uninstaller.</p> <p>ZSoft Uninstaller: <a href="http://www.zsoft.dk/index.php?goto=software_details&amp;prog_id=4" rel="nofollow">http://www.zsoft.dk/index.php?goto=software_details&amp;prog_id=4</a></p> <p>Others here can suggest even better install analyzers. I just haven&#39;t gotten around to upgrading, yet.</p> <p>Again, we&#39;re not trying to give you a hard time. But, if you run an install analyzer, you&#39;ll get results a LOT closer to what Buzz posted. As I&#39;ve said in this forum more than once, IMHO Microsoft frequently embraces complication for the sake of complication (one of the things I think mortally wounded Vista) and practically anything you do on your machine will trigger all sorts of arcane and, ocassionally, possibly unnecessary processes. It&#39;s like all those post apocalyptic Sci-Fi movies where the government offices look beautiful, but most of the population lives in rusting, collapsing squalor. Call it the decaying condition of the Evil Empire. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6541#post-67723 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:45:14 +0000 hotdoge3 67723@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>hard to say if ok or not have a look in Event Viewer may tell Post back. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6541#post-67721 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:38:05 +0000 Txnnok 67721@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ya know its a shame we cant have a linux Microsoft merge,well they did that (Lindows)and MS ended it quickly. My point is Linux doesnt use the registry system, cause it&#39;s pointless, leads to corruption, and errors. </p> <p>Linux has downloaders with installers, but, but they cant install like windows or its copyright infringement. I guess- Only reason I can think of, that and they dont want to pay for the rights.<br /> That is the biggest problem holding linux back in my book. If you could make the installer more like MS, people would by it, well at least Ubuntu and Open Suse- Those two are close anyway.</p> <p>----------------------------------<br /> back to subject,sorry I drifted</p> <p>Really two keys I didnt know that. Thanks for info. I find that a little disturbing that change is needed/ ohhh- the bookmarks regardless if you used them will make the change. ookk.</p> <p>Thank Buzz </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6541#post-67719 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:32:05 +0000 Buzz 67719@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The wrapper adds two (2) total keys.<br /> This: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\giveawayoftheday.com]<br /> and a subkey off of that. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6541#post-67704 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:23:21 +0000 Txnnok 67704@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Why are blaming GOATD? This is Realore Game put in a Give away of the day wrapper. If you took the game out of the wrapper and installed by itself then all that would still be there.</p> <p>Secondly, The person who is passing the games, Id bet didnt give a hoot to how many registry changes it made as long as it passed virus inspection. Finding this out is time issue,meaning how much time do have to spend.</p> <p>Obviously, It is important to you, it is somewhat important to me, which is why I use revo. I dont go around checking the registry after installs, but I&#39;ve also learned not to install realore games either. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6541#post-67702 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:40:55 +0000 Reubend 67702@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>While, as you said, some of these are initiated by GAOTD, the majority are probably not. Many of the DLLs that the installer must use automatically check for dependencies (like Flash and many of the DLLs you listed). It must also link to many DLLs to run, which explains more of the DLLs referenced there. In some cases, the installer must edit the registry to insert licensing data for some software, hence the registry-related activities you observed. Princess Fashion, on the other hand, is completely and utterly unexplainable and must be code inside the installer itself. This is very strange, and I must admit, it does look like it is spying on us. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6541#post-67690 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:02:01 +0000 FlusteredAndConfused 67690@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>[Trimmed excess dumpage]</p> <p>What is it doing with Terminal Services?</p> <p><code>HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server<br /> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server<br /> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\TSAppCompat<br /> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\TSUserEnabled<br /> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server</code></p> <p>This is just a minute percentage of what the log says. I can see that your software is doing things. Enough registry changes are being made. Maybe some of this is completely unrelated to your processes, but some of it is for sure initiated by setup.exe. It looks kind of like your software is spying on me, or something along those lines. Please advise. Also, run the Process Monitor software for yourselves if you don&#39;t believe me. If there is a good reason that this software does this, then I rest my case. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6541#post-67689 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:01:27 +0000 FlusteredAndConfused 67689@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I run a piece of software it&#39;s showing me that the wrapper is doing quite a few things with files completely unrelated to the installation or protection of the software.</p> <p>Lots of Registry Changes. Examples follow.</p> <p>Windows File Protection?</p> <p><code>HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Windows File Protection<br /> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Windows File Protection\KnownDllList<br /> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Windows File Protection\KnownDllList<br /> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Windows File Protection</code></p> <p>Windows Defender:</p> <p>[code]HKLM<br /> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\SpyNet</p> <p>[ Trimmed pages of excess - BuBBy ]</p> <p>--- </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6472#post-67455 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:01:18 +0000 Chip 67455@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks everyone for all your helpful comments. For now I&#39;ll stick with Movie Maker until I find one that suites my needs. Thanks! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6472#post-67291 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:46:00 +0000 Buzz 67291@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>THanks for the wikipedia link GG, some good stuff there. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6472#post-67219 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:01:43 +0000 wizzard_of_ozz2004 67219@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.virtualdub.org/index">Virtual Dub</a>, but it only outputs in avi, of course I guess you could always use a converter if you desired anything else. It inputs mpg, bmp, and avi&#39;s.</p> <p><a href="http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/">Avidemux</a>, this is mostly used for cropping your videos, but may be useful. Supports way more files than Virtual Dub though. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6472#post-67218 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:56:45 +0000 goodgotd 67218@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It depends on what your trying to do... oh, my, yes. if you want to do nonlinear editing (that&#39;s what womble mpeg wizard dvd did- full control over what order and timing your video and (separately) audio shows up- well, if you got that.... *use it!*) there are some free- but most with gotchas or heavy learning curves. </p> <p><a href="http://www.freewarefiles.com/Zwei-Stein-Video-Editor-V_program_1760.html">Zwei-Stein Video Editor v3.01</a> is still available.</p> <p>for more to check out, look at the Closed-source freeware part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software">List of video editing software</a> at wikipedia.</p> <p>dunno where <a href="http://www.freewarefiles.com/VirtualDub_program_14146.html">VirtualDub 1.9.7 Stable </a> fits.</p> <p>if you want to clip commercials or parts of home video that didn&#39;t come out right and then stick the rest together- depending on formats- you&#39;ve got some decent choices that are easy to use- and faster generally since they split and join without re-encoding. and without quality loss.</p> <p>the ones I use most are Easy Video Splitter and Easy Video Joiner from <a href="http://www.doeasier.org/">doeasier.org</a></p> <p>dvdvideosoft has a nice set of freebies, including <a href="http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-Dub.htm">Free Video Dub</a>.</p> <p>also root around places like the <a href="http://www.freewarefiles.com/category_6_74.html">Video Players/Editors</a> section of freewarefiles. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6472#post-67214 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:29:53 +0000 Txnnok 67214@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It depends on what your trying to do and what type of computer you have. I finally broke down and got cyberlink power director ultra version8. There are tons of reasons for each editor, but I got this cause it runs on cuda. This lets it run on your gpu. I used to have powerdirector 7, which didnt have this feature and it was so slow, even though I am still using a intel I7.<br /> Now with Power8 and and it using my 285gtx along with my I7, this cuda powered program screams.<br /> <blockquote>The first consumer video editing software to be optimized for Intel Core i7, NVIDIA CUDA, and ATI Stream technology, Power-Director delivers up to 5X faster performance for rendering effects and trans coding videos, with vastly improved editing and previewing speeds.<br /> Learn more about faster performance</blockquote><br /> <a href="http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/overview_en_US.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/overview_en_US.html</a></p> <p>Actually anything cuda powered will be faster regardless if your using a 285gtx, just because of how the programing architecture is utilized. Badaboom mediaconverter by nvidia can convert whole movies in about 30 seconds with superb quality using cuda.</p> <p>check it out- hope this helps in your search<br /> ------------------------------------------------------------<br /> oops- sorry its not free<br /> ---EDIT--- </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6472#post-67208 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:37:01 +0000 Chip 67208@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ok, I rarely post on these forums, I just moderate. But I could use some help on something. I usually use Windows Movie Maker for editing videos. That&#39;s ok but the quality isn&#39;t that great. Does anyone know of good, free video editing software? I can&#39;t afford to buy anything and already know of trials. But if you could point me in the direction to some good software for this I&#39;d really appreciate it. Thanks!</p> <p>-Chip </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/723#post-66293 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:52:23 +0000 andet1 66293@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>winx dvd author free until 10/31/2009</p> <p><a href="http://www.winxdvd.com/specialoffer/oct09.htm">http://www.winxdvd.com/specialoffer/oct09.htm</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6371#post-66173 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:51:32 +0000 Michelle 66173@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Program won&#39;t install on my computer. Windows Vista 64-bit. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6371#post-66170 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:38:58 +0000 Michelle 66170@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>You can get it for free 11. <a href="http://register.avanquest.com/ABSOFT/produits/Promotion/enregistrement_presse/register_cov_gd.cfm?idcgd=388" rel="nofollow">http://register.avanquest.com/ABSOFT/produits/Promotion/enregistrement_presse/register_cov_gd.cfm?idcgd=388</a></p> <p>and I found the download for everyone<br /> <a href="http://register.avanquest.com/ABSOFT/produits/Promotion/enregistrement_presse/register_cov_gd.cfm?idcgd=393" rel="nofollow">http://register.avanquest.com/ABSOFT/produits/Promotion/enregistrement_presse/register_cov_gd.cfm?idcgd=393</a></p> <p>I must be blind or did not look at both links on the other forum. It was there all along and now it is here for people who want it and didn&#39;t know about it.</p> <p>I would never have the money to buy something like that. The download was not meant for me, but my dad. I think he would like a program like this and I found the offer but could not find the link to download. Maybe because I didn&#39;t look hard enough or try both links out.</p> <p>So for those who are interested you can pick it up too for free and you can download it from a clean source. I am going to install it on this computer first just to see how it runs and then tell my dad about it. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6371#post-66169 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:35:17 +0000 Jaddis 66169@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Michelle, <a href="http://www.lec.com/listProductFamily.asp?product_family=Power-Translator-Pro">here</a> is a link to Power Translator Pro 12 from the software homepage download page. </p> <p>Here is a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/CSDC-PT11-Power-Translator-Premium/dp/B000NKKLWY">Amazon.com</a> link to Power Translator Pro 11.</p> <p>Those were all I could find. Getting a clean download to older software can be very difficult. So buying it from someplace like Amazon.com or some other place that sells software probably would be your best bet. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6371#post-66168 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:30:48 +0000 Michelle 66168@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Sorry if there was something wrong with the link.</p> <p>---EDIT---Sorry, but as always: Please only <strong>original links</strong> (developer or reputable download sites) no blogs or shady sources. Thanks!---</p> <p>The only place I can find it on is torrents, but I don&#39;t want a crack or anything like that. I just want the program setup file. Does anyone know where I can download and where you can download it from so we can get this promotion for free? Thank you.</p> <p>Michelle </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6371#post-66165 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:48:08 +0000 Michelle 66165@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Power Translator 11 Professional</p> <p>---EDIT: Please only clean original sources!--- </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6170#post-64192 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:10:10 +0000 ibwebb 64192@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Just a note.. after reading through some of them and looking at screen shots. I think I will use the Recipe Center 5.2 first. It seem to do all the things (or near enough) I want and it is free. Though, the AccuChef does sound nice as well, but as I said &#39;cheap bones&#39; run deep. I will keep that in mind if I do decide to buy one. Thanks again to all!</p> <p>ibwebb</p> <p>@Buzz: WOW! You&#39;ll be set for... well forever cooking all those! lol </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6170#post-64189 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:04:11 +0000 Buzz 64189@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for recipe center link, now to import 4,703,203 meal master recipes. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6170#post-64188 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:58:11 +0000 ibwebb 64188@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>As always.. WOW and thank you for all the help. I have lots to look through and honestly only a few that I had looked at before. I went to download.com for Roberts Recipe Center 5 because my WOT went off on that downloadcenter website and I have found it best to trust it. It wasn&#39;t until I read the other post that I had opened both version to look at when I was done. LOL . Thank you Happy as well. I of course will look at the free ones first.. I have a deep running cheap bone in my body.. but will look at what those offer as well. </p> <p>You all have been great (again) in helping me out. I just hope that sometime I can return the favor!</p> <p>ibwebb</p> <p>p.s. perhaps if any of you are looking for a good recipe I could help you out! lol. Tomorrow I am going to start my own &#39;starter&#39; so I can make my own California Sourdough French Bread! I am kinda excited about it! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6170#post-64127 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:31:35 +0000 Robert 64127@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ibwebb</p> <p>Here&#39;s another freebie called <a href="http://www.mediaweb.connectfree.co.uk/softcuis.html">SoftCuisine</a>. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6170#post-64123 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:25:32 +0000 HappyPerson 64123@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi ibwebb,</p> <p>Four excellent paid software programs (user ratings of 4/5 per CNET.COM) are:</p> <p>1. <a href="//download.cnet.com/Matilda-s-Fantastic-Cookbook-Software/3000-2126_4-10704359.html?tag=mncol&quot;">Matilda&#39;s Fantastic Cookbook Software</a></p> <p>2. <a href="//download.cnet.com/Living-Cookbook-2008/3000-2126_4-10067801.html&quot;">Living Cookbook 2008</a></p> <p>3. <a href="//download.cnet.com/AccuChef/3000-2126_4-10030587.html?tag=mncol&quot;">AccuChef</a></p> <p>4. <a href="//download.cnet.com/Master-Chef-2008/3000-2126_4-10628229.html?tag=mncol&quot;">Master Chef 2008</a></p> <p>Two more paid programs (Per CNET.COM, but thus far unrated) are:</p> <p>5. <a href="//download.cnet.com/Chef/3000-2126_4-10817821.html?tag=mncol&quot;">Chef</a></p> <p>6. <a href="//download.cnet.com/Recipe-Minder/3000-2126_4-10834709.html?tag=mncol&quot;">Recipe Minder</a></p> <p>By the way, thank you (rezidue &amp; Robert) for the free software download reference.</p> <p>Best,<br /> Happy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6170#post-64114 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:11:27 +0000 Robert 64114@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>But...yours is version 5.22 (mine is only 5.0,might not be Vista compatible yet).<br /> <img src="http://images.boardhost.com/emoticons/happy.gif"><br /> Anyway..I hope this was what Ibwebb was looking for... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6170#post-64113 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:57:43 +0000 rezidue 64113@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>beat me fair and square :-) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6170#post-64112 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:46:36 +0000 Robert 64112@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Sorry about that Damian ...<br /> <img src="http://images.boardhost.com/emoticons/nerdy.gif"> </p>