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By: tkelly46

tkelly46 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:40:23 +0000

The install was ok but when I tried to click on registry optimiser in the application the program stopped responding and when I ran registry cleaner it removed some of the files my system needed and messed up my computer and I had to use system restore to roll back to a point when my computer was working ok, I would not recomend the use of this program to annyone.

By: gergn

gergn — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:50:42 +0000

Re #1 and #17: I have ran this programme on all my four XP-machines. In ALL cases the automatic backup of the reg-files ran impeccable.

By: Paul Wo

Paul Wo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:27:01 +0000

Re: 102

BuBBy,

Thanks for the update I guess we will never know with certainty if
Larry = LSL :)

This software junkie looks forward to tomorrow’s GOTD
and am keeping my fingers crossed that unlike today’s N Technology
product offering – the program is better than the banter.

As is the established pattern; thanks for your frank and honest assessment of the GOTD.

Cheers
Paul

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:23:52 +0000

@52 there is a lot of good software from Russia, e.g. Kaspersky Antivirus and Internet Security one of the leading antivirus programs

By: Don

Don — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:24:51 +0000

re:103
Well after uninstalling and reinstalling the registration key worked! Guess the install procedure/file validation process is a little flakey.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:04:25 +0000

And for those of us that wanted to try it out on a really bad system anyhow (low risk), the registration key in the pop-up after activation (which is the same as what’s in the readme.txt file) doesn’t work anyhow. Activated OK but trying to register (4 times) it kept stating that it was ‘Invalid’!

By: Paul Wo

Paul Wo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:58:25 +0000

Re: 97 “If the software doesn’t work, neither does the programmer”. This is a very true statement and if Larry wants to continue to work as a programmer, I suggest that he uses the criticism to fix the problems rather than bad mouth the posters.

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I think this is all a misunderstanding. Please read all pertinent posts beginning with the ’snowball’ – post 70.

If you care to sort it out Larry (the poster) was just quoting NTechnologies. Also Larry (the poster) in not Leisure Suit Larry.

Mike “if the glove doesn’t fit you must aquit”.

Regards
Paul

From BuBBy: I never saw the original post that was supposedly from NTechnologies, so I cannot vouch for the authenticity of the subsequent “quotes”.

By: thefbi

thefbi — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:28:45 +0000

93 & 95 I recently purchased Acronis True Image 11 with the idea of imaging my current hard drive and XP system then using the backup to move my files over to my soon to arrive Vista system. Having read your comments on “Ghost” and googling, I am now wondering if I should have gotten “Ghost” instead? Any chance of getting a brief education before I screw up ….again ?

From BuBBy: I wouldn’t worry too much. I use and recommend either product – they both work very well. (Although GHOST is a lot larger today than in the days it could fit on a floppy boot disk (DOS) and still had room for half the DOS utilities and a bunch of network drivers – but that’s progress, and the eventual result of little guy “Binary Research” in NZ getting bought out by big guy “Symantec”).

By: CRD

CRD — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:26:33 +0000

First and foremost I would like to thank bubby and all the others for the heads up. These warnings are really invaluable to me. As a computer geek I’ve tried many freeware open source and, of course, these giveaways. I love this site and the oppertunity to own closedcode, software.

There has been gems and some kind of useless. Never though, have I come across software here that is, so to put : DANGEROUS. To think one would want to pay to destory the intergal parts of there OS is mind boggling. Not only would I not get it for free, one couldn’t pay me to use it. The only people who would use this are those that wanted to extrat code for virus engineering.

To the developer: clean up your act, and stop trying to sell harmful software to those that may not be tech savvy. This is clearly an unfinished project. Becuase of such hazards I will not risk my data or settings by downloading this program.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:30:44 +0000

Advanced WindowsCare v2 Personal is all you need. I got it from this site many months ago and I have not had any problems on my computer since. I can’t update anymore but I don’t care, it sets my system back the way I want it every time. I also haven’t bothered to try any of these others that claim what New Utilities claims because I’m so happy with AWCv2P.