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Software Reviews

by kathy025

The reviews and opinions below are posted by SnapFiles visitors. They do not necessarily reflect our opinion, and are solely based on the experience of individual users.

ReNamer
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Top-notch!  qright

ReNamer version 5.30
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

This is the mass file renaming tool you should keep! Easy-to-add rules, flexible renaming options, and simple yet efficient interface. The best of its kind.

    Review date: Oct 11, 2008

Auslogics Registry Defrag
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  The best free registry defragmenter around!  qright

Auslogics Registry Defrag version 4.1.12.105
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Pretty much like its Disk Defrag counterpart, AusLogics Registry Defrag works amazingly good and fast.

    Review date: Oct 11, 2008

Auslogics Disk Defrag
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Way better than the default defragmenter.  qright

Auslogics Disk Defrag version 1.4.16.308
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

AusLogics Disk Defrag does its job very well - and fast! After the defragmenting process, it will show your system's added performance in nice percentage bars - simple, yet informative. It doesn't have support for individual file/folder defragmentaion yet, but this little tool is highly recommended!

    Review date: Oct 11, 2008

ImgBurn
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  The almost all-around image burner!  qright

ImgBurn version 2.4.1.0
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

ImgBurn supports almost all major image formats. I say "almost" because it couldn't support ALL formats of course. It is a very handy image burning software and getting around the UI is simply child's play. Use ImgBurn to burn you .ISO, .BIN, .MDS/.MDF etc. Recommended to be used along with a burning suite which often lacks image burning support.

    Review date: Oct 11, 2008

Ashampoo Burning Studio Free
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  A freeware giant.  qright

Ashampoo Burning Studio Free version 6.70
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

We should all be thankful for the creators/developers of great freeware programs such as this! If you can't afford to purchase the big ones out there, Ashampoo Burning Studio Free is the best choice! UI doesn't only look sexy, it's also very user-friendly to first-time users. This baby allows data verification and even has BD burning support. Perhaps, the flaw it has would be the DVD-movie burning. ABSF can't burn DVD-movie from video files (e.g. AVI); they should be converted to "DVD-movie folders" (i.e. AUDIO_TS, VIDEO_TS), but aside from that, it does its data burning and other tasks very well. Highly recommended!

    Review date: Oct 11, 2008

OpenOffice
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Stick with ooo 2.4.1 for the time being.  qright

OpenOffice version 3.0
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 1
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 3

OOo 3.0 sure is an eye candy, but when it comes to Features and Ease of Use, it gets a relatively "Poor" rating. One major problem is that it has issues automatically integrating with previous MS Office files. For example, even after installing 3.0, .doc's still open in WordPad and .ppt's weren't associated with any program - meaning, they have that weird "unknown" icon that we all know Windows uses when a file type isn't associated with any software to open it with. Add that to the supposedly "easier" setup UI, there are just too many features that makes 3.0 complicated rather than helpful. It is advised to stick with 2.4.1 for a while, since it appears to be more stable and user-friendly. I would still recommend OOo, just not this version.

    Review date: Oct 11, 2008

Revo Uninstaller
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Really good, but with reboot issues.  qright

Revo Uninstaller version 1.71
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

Revo Uninstaller encounters problems when the software to be uninstalled requires a reboot. When you opt to "Restart Later" and let Revo continue the job, it hangs during the leftover files deletion. If you decide to "Restart Now", then Revo won't be able to delete the leftover files and registry.

    Review date: Sep 18, 2008

Wise Disk Cleaner
  • Freeware
  • WinNT/2000/XP

qleft  This tool is good, but...  qright

Wise Disk Cleaner version 3.7
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

...for some unknown reason, WDC messes up with MS Office. It seems to delete an important temporary file during the cleaning process, which corrupts the installation of MS Office. I had to re-install the whole thing again. WDC is not a bad software. When the bug has been fixed, I'm looking forward to using this again in the future.

    Review date: Sep 04, 2008

GoodSync

GoodSync

Backup your files and/or synchronize them with another location.

Demo Builder

Demo Builder

Create interactive Flash movies and tutorials to show how applications and systems work.

FantaMorph Pro

FantaMorph Pro

A powerful and easy-to-use software for the creation of fantastic image morphing effects