Yesterday I registered twice at given site but I don't get any my own serial number.... It sucks.

My rego code didnt work when I got it it said invalid yet the subject of the message said Giveaway of the Day but it gave me a v3.0 code. Not happy! Let me see if I can get a v 4.0 one.

#20, Peter W

Click: Start,Control Panel,System, Advanced system settings-here (in the Performance area)click Settings , now click Data Execution Prevention, click Add..., now find PPTminimizer in your program files, highlight it and click Open, now in the resulting window click PPT again, then click Open, now click Apply at the bottom of the small window, click OK. You are done. Now double click the PPT icon on your desktop, and the program should open for you.

Developing a program targeted for MS Office users is actually not that bad of a thing. There are more people using Microsoft office programs than any other office type alternatives. The developer is simply trying to capture a piece of that action, which even if tiny can generate a substantial income.

Only in this case today’s GOTD is anything but bogus because shrinking the size of Word & PowerPoint programs is a good thing. It makes it easier to attach an email without worrying as much about those emails being rejected and bounced back because the email became too large (size wise) for a server to send. I’ve personally had that happen on more than one occasion and would have to spend more time to split the email, which isn’t very much fun to do if you think about it. Plus there’s a greater potential of leaving the person you sent the email to, an unfavorable impression. And that’s not a good thing in a highly competitive marketplace or for someone looking for a job.

Thanks anyway, I see that someone else's code wouldn't have worked. Gmail saw the response as spam. I used a different address and got the registration code in 30 seconds. It's a good program. It reduced a 56 MB PPT to 4.6 MB at medium (default) compression, and the quality of the pictures looked as good as the original. Thanks, GotD!

9 PM and still no registration e-mail. Have to be up very early tomorrow, so I don't have time to wait around at my PC. Can someone please post the registration code?

Like #23, I followed the directions to obtain the registration code approximately 1 hour ago and have not yet received an email with the code. Can anyone help by posting the code? Thanks.

Good Reg ok try on a file .99 down to .66 MB only work on ppt & pptx

more info at
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/products/?p=1259&tag=nl.e101

Product Spotlight: FILEminimizer Suite

When are you going to include Windows 7?

Ashraf

Sorry to contradict you,but PPTminimiser 4.0 does support compressing PPTx files.

I still have this from last time's giveaway. There's no difference right?

Installed and registered successfully on Windows 7 32bit.
Although the program version is 4.0, it does compress .pptx files (opposed to what Ashraf said in the first comment).
The ratio of the compression highly depends on the amount of photos and pictures you've got in your document, for it seems that the most (if not all) effort the app does is on the these objects. For example, with standard compression settings, a 1.88MB .pptx was compressed to 784KB and the same original file when saved as .ppt with 2.17MB was compressed to 0.99MB. Nevertheless, .docx is not supported, and a 524KB .doc had exactly the same size after compression.
As others have mentioned above, this app is most useful when you have to email such files and you face upload size limits set by your email provider.

I was sent a email with a registration code that will not work. I have used the program to shrink two seperate files and it appeared to work fine. Iam using vista 32 It is no good if it will not register with the code your company is sending out? It is only a sample

JB

The e-mail of serialno information was classified imediately by Gmail as spam.

I've used PPTminimizer 3.0 with ppt files that have lots of jpg images -- great results, much smaller file sizes, virtually no change in image quality. Installed PPTminimizer 4.0 on Windows XP without a problem.

Installed this morning on XP SP3 32 without problems. Registration info still not emailed as of this evening.

Just checked back ... my last message is not posted showing this is merely a trial version ... I did contact the company for their e-mail response BUT they're not responding.
Why are some able to receive a response but not me???
I'm betting they'll wait until tomorrow to respond then state it's beyond the free time period; what am I doing wrong???

With the size of drives today, what is the need for compressing word files? They are tiny compared to media files.

Just had to get a new computer due to all the USB ports died ;-(
I was disappointed that I could no longer use this program I'd downloaded previously ... then noticed WIN7 was not listed, yet a few of you state works fine with this edition.
Therefore, thanks Give-A-Way for offering this once again ... sure hope others will also be available - as a image capturing program ;-)

Developing a program targeted for MS Office users is actually not that bad of a thing. There are more people using Microsoft office programs than any other office type alternatives. The developer is simply trying to capture a piece of that action, which even if tiny can generate a substantial income. Conceptually it’s like a person who has a dot tech review site that on its own merits does nothing more than nitpick (please click http://www.tfd.com/nitpick ).
So in order to get people to visit their site, they’ll plant a hotlink on a popular professional reviewers web site for the hope of luring people to their own site in order to maximize hits for Google advertising acceptance or some other hidden agenda.

Only in this case today’s GOTD is anything but bogus because shrinking the size of Word & PowerPoint programs is a good thing. It makes it easier to attach an email without worrying as much about those emails being rejected and bounced back because the email became too large (size wise) for a server to send. I’ve personally had that happen on more than one occasion and would have to spend more time to split the email, which isn’t very much fun to do if you think about it. Plus there’s a greater potential of leaving the person you sent the email to, an unfavorable impression. And that’s not a good thing in a highly competitive marketplace or for someone looking for a job.

@#13 Giovanni – This web site has a forum and I know how to use it, do you?

Seems to work great for me. Installed, registered and works just like it said it would! I read some negative reviews, but now that I am learning how it works, it is great! I have no idea why anyone wouldnt want to get this! It compresses nicely for emailing too!

Just for the record this giveaway is version 4.0, released two years ago, in May of 2008. So it isn't really current.

Upgrades to the current version (5.0) are available from their web site for the standard license fee. (I believe it is $39.95).

Just something to be aware of.

-JC

I followed the directions to obtain the registration code approximately 3 hours ago and have yet to receive the email with the code. And no, it is not stuck in my spam filter. Can't do much without that code.

i use Yahoo mail which allows me to tranfer 20Mb. I know that most other email systems allow quite good amount of space for attachment. I think this kind of niche compressors are becoming obsolete.

- Registered . . very fast respond
- Installed on XP-Pro SP3 OK
- Try to cheat using the rgister code with the new version . . Not allowed . . Good registration

The minimizer will compress the graphics in the files with minimun loss of quality . .

Agree with # 10 . . its better to add another HD.

I've been using this since it first came out on GOTD (version 3, I think). I've compressed dozens of presentations with it. It's been great for me; I usually get about 80-90% compression rates.

You can do most of what this program does within Powerpoint (image compression achieves the best results). But I can't be bothered to figure out the ins and outs of becoming a power Powerpoint user. This is a nice quick solution.

PPTminimizer 4.0 is Boingo recommended!!

Hopefully, I have helped you make an informed decision to download today.

Thank you,
Boingo

No review, just a humble comment and trying to help:

Where is the problem with using "Options/Settings" in a given programme?
@#7 Joji: Please look into the programme before complaining and repeating incorrect info given by comment #1.
This is what I'm referring to:
http://www.picdepict.com/images/28567169148721014148.jpg

@#13 Giovanni: No, MS-Office is NOT needed.

@#20 Peter W: I had the same problem. Just turn Data Execution Prevention, DEP, off for this programme and it will work.
(sorry, my system is speaking German, I have problems to translate the correct path, just search for "DEP" and you'll find the win-help file).

I use this tool since some time ago, and it worked flawlessly all the time. No bugs, no issues.
Thanks to GOTD and Balesio.

graylox

As a medical doctor I have very huge presentations full of images.I have this s/w since quite some time obtained from elsewhere. Very good software indeed. A must have for those indulging in frequent powerpoint use.
Dr Nitin

Nvm... this thing can't even replace the original file! It sucks... I tried emailing Belasio to enable that feature, but they won't listen. :(

~Joji~

Software installed without a hitch but will not register

Installed fine, but registration does not work. It says, thank you for your registration, a confirmation will be send to your email address. Well neither one did happen. I checked the software and it's still trial version ;(

installed on win7 x64, can't get it to run. reg screen does not show up. tried running as admin and the compat. mode for vists and xp. no luck.

Works great, does exactly what it aims to do - cuts PPTs down in size while leaving in PPT format.

Very lame software. Doesn't do half of what it says correctly. Many bugs and issues. I have no idea why anyone would download this.
The quality of giveaways has gone way downhill in recent times. Not really GOTD's fault. I guess they can only give away what companies are willing to give them. Doesn't look like many good companies are giving out anything worthwhile.
Not much we can do.

Installed OK onto Vista, but when trying to start either via Start / Programs etc, or by double-clicking the .exe file I get the error message : PPTminimiser has stopped working / looking for solution etc.
Trying to run the executable as administrator does not help.
Any ideas anyone, please?

#13 - sorry... forgot to link:
Free PDF Compressor 1.12

Tried to 'optimize' a Word document of 10 Mb. It is made in Word 2007 but saved as a Word97/2003 document.
The result was a file of 7 Mb, but when the new file was opened in Word it came up saying that there was an error in a table. This was a very simple table. The message said that it could be repaired by closing and opening the document with an correct error option, which I however could not find.
In future I'll just zip the word file (then it becomes 5 Mb) as I have done previously.

#10 - Many possible scenarios. Carrying portable presentations around on a flash drive for instance.

@13 Giovanni

I realise that Acrobat is not free but it does include a nice little option to Reduce document size, but if it's (text only) ebooks why not just convert the PDF to a plain txt file as that should be the smallest file size you can get.

Strange, it gives you the option to replace the existing file or to create a new file in the same directory or new one. It's all in the settings. I'm waiting for the license to arrive it seems the mail comes in the old fashion way. However if it works as Fileminimizer it is ago for me.

Ash, many e-mail systems limit how large a file you can send out or receive. I used to work with HUGE PPT presentations that we had a difficult time distributing because of these limits where I worked. A tool like this could be very helpful in these cases.

Hi all!!

Nice Software but only for those that use OFFICE.

I have a question for you: since eBooks are in PDF format does anybody know if there is a similar program (preferably FREE....LOL!) for PDF files?

Fantastic software. Simple install. Works as described. Has saved my butt many times, compressing bloated ppt's. Have achieved as much compression as from 22MB to 2MB's.

Works for me on Windows 7 x64.
Have compressed some files and the average is 20%.
Best compression that I had 41% and worst 1%
Not the 98% that they claimed.

Why would one need a program like this when 1TB Hard drives these days are under $70!! Just zip the attachments to save space and password protect if needed.

Registration details not accepted when entered in the program's dialog box.

Running MS Office 2007 + Windows 7.

Wait... do I see "Overwrites existing files of the same name in the same output directory without warning"? THAT IS WHAT I WANT!!!

The word "overwrite" is what I really want out of this software. Too bad Balesio stripped off that feature in File/Picture Minimizer... :(

~Joji~

To register the program you need to go here http://balesio.com/giveawayoftheday042010.php
and enter your email address.

This address is shown in the activation window.

Very good application. I have used it well on Office 2003 before I changed my HDD. Good chance to have it again.
Recommended. Has very good minimizing proportions.