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<title><![CDATA[By: wellsaid1000]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/niksaver/#comment-41571</link>
<description><![CDATA[#95 Great comment.

This should be saved and reposted periodically as a reminder:

"For those trying to keep their GOTD applications forever, you completely misunderstand the entire purpose of GOTD. You’re not being given perpetual free software because you’re such a deserving person and the world wants to shower you with free gifts. You’re being given a no-time-limit fully-functional non-re-installable non-transferable non-upgradable trial of commercial software, offered only on the day it’s given away, to allow you to evaluate the software and generate future sales for those products which you find useful. If you want freeware, GOTD has separate listings for that, and you can go to plenty of other sites."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Alien Bard]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/niksaver/#comment-41570</link>
<description><![CDATA[Reading many of these comments I feel compelled to point out that this program is not intended to allow users to make or maintain illegal copies of other software.  Nor does it offer to restore hidden settings and codes such as licenses.

What this program does do is to quickly and easily maintain a record of your tweaks and settings.  

One of the worst aspects of reinstalling is losing all those customizations you made over the years. With this program you can save all that information and restore things to the same look and feel they had before.  But you WILL need to reinstall those programs BEFORE restoring their settings.  

This will not help you keep your GAOTD programs, only restore their individual settings and tweaks after (if) you get them reinstalled.

So far it seems this software does what it claims to although I agree that there is still room for improvement.  A good job by the author and I hope he keeps it up.

@Nikolai:  I would like to suggest adding a small routine stored with the backup files to automatically restore them even without the presence of the main program.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:50:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Jo Bleaux]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/niksaver/#comment-41569</link>
<description><![CDATA[I tried Niksaver yesterday because I've been needing a program that will allow me to upgrade to a newer machine without losing all of my program settings.  Although Niksaver was able to find my installation of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 version 7.2 and it appears to have saved the configuration in the form of a registry file and a folder containing an activation log text file, it was unable to find this information on the new machine to restore those settings, nor did it recognize that there was a fresh installation of Flash.

Furthermore, I attempted to manually restore the settings via registry merge and file copy to the corresponding location on the new machine, but Flash came up as an unregistered trial copy.

Bottom line:  Niksaver was a complete waste of time and I am thankful that GAOTD gave me a chance to try it for free, because it apparently isn't even worth the cost of a floppy disk to store it!]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:50:09 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Nikolai Kurkov]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/niksaver/#comment-41568</link>
<description><![CDATA[#90 "Maybe 50% discount".
Who want to discount - just mail to me (nikkurkov @ gmail.com) and i will give it.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:58:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: andre]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/niksaver/#comment-41567</link>
<description><![CDATA[sorry - german language in english words - that´s bad - not "plays" but games!]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:15:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: andre]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/niksaver/#comment-41566</link>
<description><![CDATA[does not read settings of programs installed in an other partition but C - right? all my plays are installed in D, so I cannot save their settings.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:13:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/niksaver/#comment-41565</link>
<description><![CDATA[The quality of the comments here continues to be very low--people vote based on what the software offered claims to do, rather than what it actually does.  I largely agree with BladedThoth's review, but I'm much less positive on potential improvement.  Some types of software cannot be developed by individual developers.  No single person will ever be able to produce an OS which competes with Windows, Linux, etc.--no one can write tens of millions of lines of code.  Similarly, software which claims to back up application settings cannot be usefully produced by an individual--there's no way any individual can keep up with all the applications which people use, nor the continually changing versions of those applications.  NikSaver supports, at most, less than 5% of my applications.  So, with more than 95% not covered, what good is it?  Oh, sure, I could dig through the file system and registry and try to support them myself, but that would take forever, and I'd have to continually update it when application versions changed.  Any backup program which lets you specify folders and registry keys could do that.

Those wanting to migrate to a new computer should use one of the numerous software packages written to do that--check the reviews.  Personally, I strongly recommend reinstalling applications rather than migrating them.

For those trying to keep their GOTD applications forever, you completely misunderstand the entire purpose of GOTD.  You're not being given perpetual free software because you're such a deserving person and the world wants to shower you with free gifts.  You're being given a no-time-limit fully-functional non-re-installable non-transferable non-upgradable trial of commercial software, offered only on the day it's given away, to allow you to evaluate the software and generate future sales for those products which you find useful.  If you want freeware, GOTD has separate listings for that, and you can go to plenty of other sites.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:05:04 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: SoVeryTrue]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/niksaver/#comment-41564</link>
<description><![CDATA[To those who complain that if their system crashes, they will have to actually BUY some replacement software, I suggest you get a job or borrow money from your mother upstairs. This software is simply an insurance policy. By taking advantage of GAOTD's generous offer today, you will only need to spend a little money IF and WHEN disaster strikes. Frankly, some of you cheapskates expect a lot from someone who has to feed his family and will never see a dime from you. To put that in perspective, next week your boss says to you, "I appreciate all you've done around here last week, but I think I will hold off on paying you to see if I will really need all that work you've done. You don't mind continuing to tidy up around here and do a few more things for me in the meantime, free, do you?"  I'm just glad I'm not a software developer who has to tolerate so many self absorbed people who take but seldom give. I'm actually surprised some of you ingrates even have computers, but then that's why Mom and Christmas go together. Too bad she's also paying for your DSL.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:32:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: windowsexplorer]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/niksaver/#comment-41563</link>
<description><![CDATA[#83--because SiteAdvisor practices guilt by association, they hold a site responsible for what another site does if they are linked.  In many cases, (like this one, I believe and have so told McAfee) this unfairly penalizes in the extreme a site that is itself spotlessly clean.  IMHO, the worst that should have happened is give them a yellow to warn against the links, but a red rating is overkill and dilutes (causes people to ignore the warning and click on through) the effect of a real red rating, which should be reserved for the really bad sites (unless they add another color for that!)  If you agree with me, more people contacting McAfee might help change it.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:11:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Ira]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/niksaver/#comment-41562</link>
<description><![CDATA[I installed the program and found that it lacks certain refinemennts.  Such as the list of my installed programs, in tabular form but without column headings.  But what distresses me most is that it detected only a small sample of all the installed progarms, and even then could not back up some of them, such as Eudora.  I am afraid that the program does only a small percentage of what it is supposed to do.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:30:28 -0500</pubDate>
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