Giveaway of the Day - Network Assistant 4.5 (rerun)

1. When it is closed to the systray notification area and I select Shut Down from the right click menu on the systray icon it doesn’t shut down, it just stops responding to the clicks in a timely manner or functioning fully. To shut it down from the systray icon phase I have to use a task manager and end task it.

   Shut down from the main windows File menu also fails to termiate the application cleanly too, both under Vista basic.

   Comment by TK — June 17th, 2009 at 3:30 am
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2. Thanks for the 2 licenses – good job – thumbs up!!

   Comment by Mark E Pc Tech — June 17th, 2009 at 5:03 am
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3. I was really pleased to see the double license offered today. After trying the demo versions with one full license it did what it says it does.

   The kids had lots of fun sending IM’s to each other and when they discovered the whiteboard, even more fun was had; though as a home user it’s hardly worth buying just for that (if you wanted more licenses to cover a larger LAN. However that said I was really interested in the file transfer abilities. If you’re not sure how to do this all you need to do is click on the user section of the tool bar and select send file. A small window appears that enables you to select whatever file you wish to send. Unfortunately it doesn’t allow you to send folders, so if you want to transfer a full program you’ll have to zip it up first. That said I was impressed by the file transfer rates. When I’ve previously transferred files over from one computer to another using windows it’s taken forever just to send one small file, whereas this program was relatively quick. I transferred a 73Mb zipped file which took around 30 seconds. Not bad, but I’m wondering if there is any freeware applications that anyone knows out that does the same thing?

   I was offered three licenses by the developer (which I’m still considering) for $25; after writing to him following the giveaway on the 12th June. I though with today’s two licenses and the single license we got originally, I’d be able to run the three computers I have in my study, but when I have one or both computers running with the two license code that was given away today, the one that was registered with the license we received on the 12th still un registers after saying there is a license conflict. So it appears that despite today’s license having some differences in the code (several characters are different including the last three numbers), it wont allow the first license to work. (or so it seems to me; has anyone else had this problem)?

   I’ve always transferred files between my computers using a memory stick or external hard drive and prior to those via DVD or CD, so apart from experimenting with the idea of using the LAN a few years ago, I’ve never bothered to try direct transfers before. It’s definitely easier to do, so I want to continue using that method so I’m going to see if I can find a freeware program that enables easy transfer of files and if possible folders. If I can find one I think this program will be redundant on my computers. (Any ideas????) Thanks in advance. 

   If not I’ll end up buying the three licenses offered to me (I wonder if those will invalidate the two license key I have now, lol)

   Comment by Treat — June 17th, 2009 at 5:58 am
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