It seems to me that this program doesn't offer anything that Outlook doesn't already have in some form already -- filtering, sorting, and printing. Considering it needs Outlook to run, what is the purpose of this?

Sorry for my< last bad comment. I just wanted to say : I don't like this application. thanks fr sharing anyway. I love giveawayoftheday.com

A shame this app cannot do something like archive Thunderbird emails into a documents folder separate from Thunderbird itself...I've been looking for something that would let me do that. I can't stand Outlook and have been using Tbird for a long time now... and I'm sure I'm only one of many people who use something other than Outlook!

It should clearly say "Outlook add on" in the description (a big remiss of GAOTD team).
Also in the description, a comment about not being for Outlook Express would have been sensible (especially because it is aimed at "non savvy people").
I have enjoyed (and obviously agree) with the many useable and intellegent comments.
Currently I do not know any person or business that uses Outlook, they all use Outlook Express - even though quite a few also have MS Outlook installed on their machines :-)
BUT I think specialist software is a good idea.
There are people out there studying, "Pro Ams" and more, who might benefit from specialist software, so they deserve a chance, just like the rest of us do.
Remember, think about others and not just your self.

I don't usually print emails but attachments. This software does not handle sorting and prioritising of attachment printing. For forensics, the chronological order of both emails and their attachments should be relevant.

It, can reverse the emails in Outlook so that one can print them with the earliest email on the first page. This is such an obvious feature that many, many businesses (think large law firms) would grab and so would I.

Very useful software for Outlook Users.

Even though this is free software - I feel cheated. This software is useless. There are many alternatives out there that help manage your email on many levels - there is a plugin for Thunderbird that does what this program does and much more.
Thumbs down on this one.

IF you can relate to the need for a more flexible MS Outlook printing facility - don't be put off by the average user ratings! This is a wonderfully simple piece of software which can regularly save you a lot of time and bother.

I'm sure there would be a lot more positive comments if all the office bods were not so busy working or facebooking. Or maybe they didn't have the admin privileges to install at work!

THE GOOD:
Trouble free installation.
Very unobtrusive outlook add-in.
Much nicer previewing facility for multiple emails. Great even just for reading an email trail without printing.
You only need to select the latest email in a thread and it will automatically consolidate the others into a single preview or print.
Can use outlook column sorting to help select emails knowing that the add-in conveniently restores the sequence for printing/previewing.
Allows you to choose page numbers for printing whereas Outlook email printing does not. Very useful when for example you only want to print page 1 of a 6 page flight confirmation.
Removing extra blank lines a real boon, as is removing page breaks.
Quick landscape/portrait selection.
These benefits apply also to paperless printing with a pdf distiller.

THE BAD:
Sometimes 'PrintMail' option does not appear upon right-clicking.If you have been fwded several outlook mails as attachments, these can be all selected but when you click PrintMail it only grabs one of them.

THE WISH:
A killer feature would be a checkbox to quickly remove duplicate passages for printing i.e. the compounded original messages in replies.

Other advanced software titles…

Advanced Word Checking Tool,

Advanced Keyboard Letter Finder,

Advanced Power Switch Locator,

Advanced Sound Volume Adjusting Utility…

Thanks GAOTD and a special thanks to BuBBy, who should probably consider a new career as a stand up comic! ROTF

Regards,
Damian

More out of curiosity I installed the add-on. I do use Outlook, but rarely ever print e-mails and when, I don't especially like the way Outlook does it. That said, the add-on let's you adjust the margins quite nicely and you don't have to actually open the e-mail to print, but that's about it.

What I did find a major drawback is that there is no way to print the attachments. But I suppose, the lowwyers must not be receiving those.

Greetings, Alex

please do not give this type of profession specific sw.do u really feel
it is unique and good.the programmer must review his heart and mind once--rowdy

The fact that a lawyer would be prey to this type of add on, means the get what is comming to them. The fact that MS Outlook is not security compliant for most lawyers means that this is mostly a waste. I can see the benefit for some but not me and most others. A commercial use for a high level manager with remedial computer skills seems a good canidate, but no need for a secure e-mail client. The fact this is clearly marketed to lawyers since they have no computer savy, case in point take P2P suits that it is only for illegal downloading.

I’m sure lawyers would get this to prove to their clients and constituents they are on the cutting edge of technology.

BuBBy:

I have never laughed so hard at a GOTD comment as I have today. That was great, and hopefully you choose to remain a member of the GOTD community for years to come.

Truly, as said above, you are the actual Giveaway for today. Great choice, GOTD. :)

to #32 - Outlook is the most used email client application in US businesses that are using MS Windows. And it's lead is shrinking. It is not #1 worldwide. It is not #1 for home, education or small business use anywhere in the world. More and more people are using html for email which means less using Outlook. Outlook costs $$$. Outlook Express/Windows Mail(Vista)and Thunderbird are free email clients.

I installed this and uninstalled it once I saw how very little it did. Somehow in that process it wrecked vbscript on my PC. If that happens to you, there is a fix here:

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/209/1/Error-Cant-find-script-engine-VBScript-for-script-when-installing-the-Windows-Installer-Cleanup-Utility.html

BTW, vbscript is important to the correct functioning of your PC, even if you don't use it very often. It is worth checking whether it is working before something important does not work. I use vbscript files quite a lot on my PC, but otherwise I might not have noticed the problem until much later.

If you want to test vbscript:
open notepad
type in: msgbox("Hello World")
save on your desktop as hello.vbs
double-click that file, and it should give you a small message box saying hello - or it will give you an error message if there is a problem.

Just to add to #9's comments about previous boss's
I had one who just didn't get it.He received the e mails and tried to print them.The printer was a corporate shared one at a central location.He didn't and couldn't hear it printing as it was too far away. So he kept pushing the print button till it ran out of paper.The IT guys "loved" him.
I would send him word attachments and he would send the same thing back with his changes,except there were no changes. He finally asked me how come when he finished editing a doc file and sent it all the changes disappeared, I had to try and explain SAVE to him.
Finally we found the best way was for him to dictate his changes to me on a Sunday afternoon over the phone.

Serves Lawyers right! Let them splurge their ill-gotten money on such software!

Wondering just how many people in here have used Windows 7 - it looks real good to us!

I agree with comment #3, been through the ringer with a lawyer. Thank you, but, will pass at this time.

I downloaded it, it installs fine on XP sp3... Nice interface.
that WAS the PRO.
It was removed from system after that since I do not use Outlook nor Express(Which it wasn't designed for i guess).
I use Gmail, and MSNLive Email.... So if it adaptable to those type Email systems it WOULD have been a keeper. I give it THUMBS DOWN. (Program limitations/restrictions).

On the offhand chance that this info might be useful to the 10% or so who might install Advanced Email Printer, it's an add-on to Outlook consisting of a .dll file & a sparse help file. It's also Visual Basic, including some older version VB runtime files. I haven't installed it, so no idea how well behaved the set-up is or isn't, but potentially it could mess up other VB apps you have installed.

It also includes a file called: vbscript.dll in the program folder -- it's an older version of a file likely already in your Windows folder used by ie 7 & 8 among other programs, & a source of potential conflict.

At any rate those are a couple of places to look if after install (or uninstall) something doesn't work properly. The help file says that the add-on searches the content of .pst files (stored emails), if that's of any use to anyone. Please note that I've only extracted the add-on's files from the demo set-up out of curiosity (I am not an Outlook fan), thought this info might be useful (if only to a few), & have no idea how well installation or the add-on itself works.

Software is a joke when it comes to modern times just like EVERYONE else said in the post. Most of the features it allows is what just about all the email programs all ready offer if you know how to do it. Plus, this program limits you on what programs you can use (is outlook a lawyers universal email client: Let's see degree, outlook, loan for bussiness, ok now I'm an official lawyer). Thumb down on this product but I do wish the best for the developer because in these times we can'
t afford to lose any companies (even the crazy ones).

Shadow out

@39 Working for a lawyer in the UK I am sure you read the legal terms Strictly personal usage. I am sure you will pay the $49.95 to use it legally at work, right?

I think the criticism's completely unfair.
Especially the eco-Nazi snarking about paper.

Haven't any of you ever heard of a PDF print driver?

So it doesn't work with anything but Outlook. I use Thunderbird, too, but I'm not so delusional as to think it's got market share like Outlook.

If I was a programmer, I wouldn't be trying to program for a client with no market share. I'd go for the application that's of the most use to people and is likely to sell.

If you think programmers should make things most people don't want or won't use and then give them away, go work for Obama.

@#39 Lawyer Assistant. I'd be interested in knowing if this actually helped you - please post back after you try it. It could be that there actually is a niche for this kind of product... something that is worthless to the general public can be a diamond for the right audience.

One more thing -
If you have your fonts set to anything other than the Windows default - 96dpi - the interface breaks and the controls/buttons/checkboxes are unusable or don't even show up on the screen. Amateur 101 at best.

If these guys are really a MS Gold developer, this should have been caught and corrected when MS reviewed the application (Microsoft makes all developers submit their apps for review). This shows you how effective that review process is (NOT). In my experience MS's developer certifcation is nothing more than a money-grab for Microsoft so I have no doubt they really are certified.

@1 I'm surprised GOTD even let your comment through. Usually anything with a shred of humor gets nuked. GREAT JOB!

This is for comment #37:

Please reinstall it as I had the same problem. Firstly it is mandatory to close your web navigator and the Outlook program if they are already open. Letting these programs openned the installation will not proceed anyway.

Interesting phenomenon I've just experienced: the worse an offered application is the better the comment ratings are.

I guess if you end up buried in the mountains of paper printouts, you could always scan the printouts and send the scans to your Outlook account. ;-)

But you left out the best bit, BuBBy. It's free for PERSONAL use. So the lawyers who could benefit from it can't use it--at least not legally.

I have to agree with Bubby on this one. This is an application (and I use that loosely) that is a solution looking for a problem.
The sad part is that the publisher is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner which means that chances are very good that they actually had a client (in this case a lawyer or firm) that had the problem. At least one would hope that it was a client and not someone in their own company.

Unfortunately this is all too common. I have been presented with "requirements" documents from clients for capabilities that they already had. And while I could have developed an app for the client and resold it for residuals, which is what this is, my conscience and my reputation were better served by training them on what they had.
Bottom line: take the time to learn the software you have. Chances are pretty good that you don't need this cluttering up your system, adding another layer of complexity for your sysadmins to deal with when things break.

That being said, the interface is clean and professional, and indeed it offers the user a perhaps more "friendly" way to accomplish the tasks it does. So it is reasonable to say that for what it does, it is a fine piece of software.

I went to the publisher's site to review their marketing for this specific offering. The company is based in India, which explains the excellent design, and the not quite perfect English. While, according to their site:

Systweak has achieved more than 100 Five Star Awards globally for its innovative software utilities technologies

I found no evidence on a random sampling of those software sites that this one had actually received any acclaim.

To the publisher: Advanced System Protector Pro (offered May 4) was a useful offering to get your name out there, and we liked it. However, following it with a product with such a narrow market was a poor choice. Impress a wider audience by offering GiveAwayOfTheDay users your more mature (i.e. not a v.1 release) and robust products (i.e. an application, not a plug-in) before you target a specific market (in this case lawyers), and you'll develop a much better reputation (and reviewers here will tend to go easier on you).

To the GiveAwayOfTheDay team as always, good job. There is always someone out there that can make use of your offerings.

Thank you, Bubby, thank you #33 Vango! As said above, yep, Bubby was THE giveaway for today! What would we do without our Bubby, W.Rabbit, & Ashraf? :) Informative & fun all in one, Bubby! :) I have too much junk on my PC already. This is 1 time here that it's good NOT to have to download & install the offer to be able to post, as we'd all like to express our appreciation!

I'm going to try it but I buy and use programs that are far more complex than this at less than the $49.95.

Unless it comes down to $20 or $25 I certainly won't purchase it.

Cool idea but expensive for what it is and limited unless you use MS outlook.

For people that actually need a good email filter, I recommend everdesk mail or everdesk optima - they not only sort your emails, they automatically convert them to files and put them in the appropriate folders. And of course you can filter out whatever you want. Not free though, but worth the money.
http://everdesk.com

I am a assistant of Lawyer in UK. I am preapring for a case which has lots of email history. We have to submit email prints in court. Printing each email on seperate page is very borring and requiers lots of attention.

Might be it can be of some help. But as others are saying they did'nt like it. Anyway if something is coming for free no harm.

Wow this was incredible - after I loaded it I could sort my mail !! I could even print preview it! I called Granny up from the still just to show her the room I filled with the emails!!!!! If my thumbs were opposable I give it a two and a half thumbs up!

I tried to install it, but after words, I couldn't find it anywhere--it wasn't even listed on the add/remove programs window.

If you have One Note you can edit emails for printing in there.

I really can't even tell if it installed as I don't see it anywhere.

@#32 developervoice, I believe if you look at the stats here it shows that this program is not welcomed by a rather large percentage of the users in the world. I stopped using outlook 10 years ago and have never looked back and more and more people are doing the same.

here's one i don't have to hurry up & dl & install, cause i'm sure your servers will not be very busy today with this useless piece of (junk?), but of course i won't be downloading it at all since it's so yesterday.

In all seriousness, I'm a lawyer, and I can't imagine having any use for this. Nice try, though :-)

So ... in spite of it all, as an Outlook 2007 user, I decided to install it on a vista 64 system. You see, I HATE the way Outlook prints emails! There's this header it puts on the page which is not configurable in the section of Outlook that leads you to believe you can customize the output. So this seemed like a good idea.

The good: It installed.

The bad: trying to invoke it, the screen that pops up is incomplete and non functional. Only the three finger salute could exticate the computer from this position.

Thank goodness for Revo Uninstaller!

Dear All ... it's wonderful to know that you are all such wonderful, enlightened and "normal" users. Just FYI, Outlook is the DOMINANT email client in the world - whether you like it or not! That means that for a rather large percentage of the users in the world, this GOTD would be at least interesting and possibly welcomed. Some of the abilities in this software at least appear useful and not available out of the box in Outlook and it is, after all, FREE! Did you overpay? So, I will take a look and let you know if they work - but how about chilling on the innuendo and the insults just because it may not be something you personally need - despite Bubby's ever so entertaining post :-)

Doesn't thunderbird do this already?

@27 - Once again, Outlook is NOT Outlook Express. They are two products, and I wish M$ burn in hell for naming them similarly, so I have to explain that fact at least twenty times a week...

I am sure lawyers can afford the $50 price tag. If i had Outlook, I'd give it a try.

What a way to start the day!

Thanks to GAotD, the publisher, and of course the lovely people who post.

Started my day with a laugh! :)

This software will be obsolete in a few months when every Win-user changes to Win7. Win7 does not have Outlook.

It integrates so seamlessly with Outlook that you'll ever wondered why you needed it. You do not. Agreeing (and laughing) with everything BuBBy said, this is a bit of a lame piece of NothingWare that is aimed at lawyers and other Digitally Bewildered suckers. Thumbs down.
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