Secondly, the version for GAOTD was prepared and tested more than 1 week before the giveaway. As we said, we were not actually expecting the release of the new version on the very day of the promo, our apologies.

Finally, has anyone received any spam from us?

#118 – Spiceworks is not very strong in recognizing workgroup puters, maybe better in a domain with active directory and stuff like that. You can see the problem mentioned in their forum. It is a good program for some needs and some users.

#113 – understands the workgroup problem some, however the “Belarc on each PC” solution is both very clumsy for administration – and against the Belarc license (for fully free alternatives try PC Wizard 2008, WinAudit, SIV or SimpleSysInfo), so cannot be recommended in a responsible biz environment.

If at all possible you should work to unravel the passwords and any auxiliary problems. e.g. NIA (also ManageEngine does this) very clearly tells you how to open the Windows Firewall (and you can simply turn it off in testing to see if that is the only problem). The recogniztion problem in a workgroup exists for virtually every network software, administration or backup, so if possible it is better to be disciplined and try to solve the recognition problems.

Ultimately it is probably better to switch the workgroup to a different setup like Active Directory if possible, but you work with what you have.

#100 – I know this is not one of the anonymous Chinese sites (they often produce knock-off software) by the quality of the product and the fact that I called up customer support yesterday afternoon in the USA and we had a nice chat .. however it was after-hours so I just got the secretary.

Note: there are some reasonable Chinese companies too, they are not all anonymous knock-off attempts.

Shalom,
Steven

I do not understand all the complains here, as the program installed immediately, activation-code was received in 30 seconds, and scan went well.
Greetings from Finland.

What a complex way to say “We just did a major improvement of our software so we offered our now outdated one because it’s inferior to the current version now. We didn’t want to let you have the current improved version for free.”

Nevertheless, the developer DOES deserve respect for actively participating in the comments here. IMO that shows a developer truly cares about consumer’s experiences with their software.

As soon as I installed and opened todays Giveaway. it popped up a window offering update to the current version.

During program installation, of course they demand you give your email to them so you can endure yet more advertising spam garbage forever after.

When you go to your email to retrieve the code, it says “Your registration name is now stored within your system, and the code you have to manually enter is…”

In the very next paragraph, it says”Please, input this activation code in the corresponding field of the installation package when installing Network Inventory Advisor. Please, don’t enter it manually, only copy/paste it to prevent typing errors”…”

Talk about complete contradiction here!!!!! have to manually enter, please don’t enter it manually!”

I wish developers would offer standalone portable versions of their apps because:

#1. Laptop Hard drives are often extremely small (120-160 Gig HDD sizes which are what is found on most laptops, aren’t nearly big enough.

#2. To do much at all on a laptop with the typical 120-160 Gb HDD, it’s necessary to have a portable HDD too. The more that can be put on the portable HDD, the better to prevent the laptop hdd from becoming too full and having major problems due to lack of space. And you can count on Windows Updates wanting ever more and more of your hard drive space!!!

#3. Apps that can run from a portable HDD aren’t lost when your desktops or laptop crashes and needs reinstall.

Many Manufacturers only provide recovery disks that require you to COMPLETELY WIPE OUT YOUR HDD AND REINSTALL ALL THE OEM GARBAGE FROM THE BEGINNING. They don’t include the repair features that MS includes with Windows or any other features that allow you to repair a windows installation.

This is why I get so frustrated that developers don’t think of offering standalone portable versions of apps.

Thanks both GAOTD & ClearApps teams!