DB,
Too many hoops or are you just lazy? Getting this program registered is a very simple process.
The next time Franzis offers another program here, you don't have to set up an account again
because you already have one. My key was sent to me via email immediately. This is a very good
company with terrific programs they offer here at GOTD, from time to time.

dave stevenson, the code is mileage but the ID must be filled

Faye, When u click "Internet", you should be taken to Franzis homepage, where you create a new account(if you dont have 1)..then they send you the registration code in email.

Well now it has been almost an hour. No it is not in my spam folder

Faye, You were taken to Franzis homepage, filled info and still nothing? I would go to your account on their website and double check

Faye,

It's not at all uncommon to have emails blocked by spam filters running on your email provider's servers. Use a different email account with a different email service. I have email addresses with 4 different providers, and sometimes I have to try 3 of them -- when a company sends out thousands of emails with keys, those spam filters can wrongly ID anything coming from that address as spam.

mike, Thank you Mike. I found out the problem. Franzis should tell you you have to disable the ad blocker if you use one. I disabled that and I used a different e-mail. All went smoothly this time. Thanks again Faye

DJ, Thanks DJ for helping me out. I had a ad blocker and I had to disable that then things went smoothly Thanks Faye

Mattsy, you have to "extract all" then click "setup" in the extracted folder..the Mac folder is separate in both for Mac users. If it still doesn't work, it's possible the GOTD Thermida wrapper is being blocked by your antivirus, so may have to disable the antivirus and retry.

TK,
In many countries 1,000,000.00 is 1.000.000,00

Carl, I am aware that some foriegn nations do use an alternative number system but they are not native English speaking/reading nations therefore when marketing towards english language nations use the languages notations :-) Also 1.000,000 != 1.000.000,0 even if 1,000,000.00 = 1.000.000,00 when translated into another languages syntax... ie, they have a decimal comma rather than a decimal point and a point thousands seperator rather than a comma thousands seperator... I am not aware of any nation that uses both point and comma thousands seperators interchangably within the same number... as that leaves no character for the decimal sub-unit seperator.

TK,

Or just... understand what they're trying to say and maybe cut them some slack in the language department.....

TK, I accept your complaint, but if you are fussy about usage by native English speaking/reading readers you should also separate using a separator and not a seperator.

TK, please don't clutter the comments section with trivial nonsense that nobody cares about.

Zen , I am more concerend about accurate and meaningful specifications, ambiguous feature claims that require the reader to infer or assume what they really mean is a very poor way to initiate a contract of sale. SInce I was not forming or intending to form a contract with the reader I see no reason to be that concerned about my misssssssspelling :-p I would not be too suprised if the variations the program could produce is precisely 1 million. Because for it to be Theoretically 1 million it would have to be demonstrated as possible to produce 1 million variations otherwise if it has not been experimantally demonstrated then its only hypothetically 1 million variations not theoretically. Acording to scientific methodology anyway ;-) Reason is because not all settiings combinations are ensured to produce a completely unique output.

J, I don't do mind reading, I prefer to provide product contributors with constructive criticisim that if they follow will improve the apearence and value of their marketing/descriptive text. I am not bothered that readers so far found my comment as not useful since it was specificly directed for the vendors attention not for general readers entertainment, the rest of this thread has been about irrelevences since the first replies syntax examples where not examples of what was being constructively criticised and the rest thought I was not understanding and just being picky rather than offering potentially helpfull advice to a German company that for some reason unbeknown to us got the numerical value syntax all messed up which does not look good for a software company as good programmers generally have a reasonable grasp of mathematics and syntax.... poor programmers well who knows!

Observer ,

You are absolutely right. I have said it before..certain posters on this comment board are full of themselves and think they are smarter because they write long winded stories about things nobody cares about.

Blackhat,

"Why do we need to create an account with the developer when most of us will never access the account but more concerning is why does the developer need all this information and what are they doing with it?"

Why?... Because you want the free software. ;)

Franzis has been this way for years with their giveaways, and there have been LOTS of complaints from the very first. The only thing those complaints have accomplished is that now the emails with keys are in English -- Google translate is no longer needed.

That said, Franzis does a lot of giveaways, often the software is worth having, if not in the must have category, so saving the email & password, then reusing them, makes sense by making it pretty painless.

Mart, I've never had an issue with any Franzis product, and I don't mind them keeping my account on file. Makes it easier to get my registration codes should I forget 1 or crash my drive. Yes I have a few of their software from 2 yrs ago.
I would love to find an Android app that can do what Buzzer does on a PC, as not everyone uses their phone for photography.
A great many programs "embed" themselves in registry, and just for the heck of it, I uninstalled this using my uninstaller. Saw no real difference in uninstall times.

Mart,

"1. Overly arduous and intrusive sign up procedure."

If you save you email & password for the next time, it's no worse than most giveaways.

"2. Useless program outperformed by even the most basic free android app."

But those Android apps do not run on your Windows PC/laptop. If you're snapping quick pics that are automatically uploaded to Google or wherever, there's very often little or no need to put them on your PC. If OTOH you're using a camera that's not built into a cell phone, you're not going to go through the maybe arduous task of getting those photos on your cell phone's limited storage just to edit them.

"3. Totally embeds itself needlessly and worryingly into your registry. Took an absolute age to uninstall using Revo..."

I monitored the install, and PhotoBUZZER has almost zero impact on Windows registry -- what you saw was the result of installing the Microsoft C/C++ runtimes, just the way that Microsoft recommends they be installed. IOW if you have a complaint, it's with Microsoft.

mike,
Mike is 100% correct. I wish people would stop it with the "intrusive talk." It sounds so silly. Now if you were talking about Microsoft, then I would totally agree. All that Franzis has on me is my email address. They, very infrequently, send email followups or advertise new or existing software. Franzis makes terrific software so if they are offering you free software here, all they do is ask you to create an account at their website. That's it. Once you confirm your email addy, your reg key is sent to you immediately. No waiting at all like with so many other programs offered here that make you wait hours for a key. And the next time Franzis offers you this or another software product, getting your key now involves just one less step.

Ref Shawki, If you have an error The name of the problem event:
APPCRASH
in module name with error: OpenCL.DLL,
that is the easiest way out:
1. Go to the folder with the program
2. Find the file “OpenCLCheck.exe” and change it to the other name, I changed it to “— OpenCLCheck.exe”
3. Start the program
4. Enter the serial number
5. The program will open.

//Attention! Programs from Franzis do not support Cyrillic fonts, see that the file was named in English and the path to the file consisted only of English letters //.

Ref Shawki, I also tried a number of times to install this application with no success as it is just not opening without any error notification
(Windows 10x64bit Pro)