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Found Deals and Discounts / EaseUS Todo Backup Workstation 4.5 [GIVEAWAY - 5 licenses]

« on: June 14, 2012, 09:10 AM »

Here's a chance to get a license for the latest version of Easeus ToDo Backup Worstation v4.5.

Easeus ToDo Workstation giveaway contest by vmancer

Quoting the site:
"New features and improved in EaseUS Todo Backup Workstation 4.5

    Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8 (32 & 64 bit)
    Backup tasks and plans can be interconverted
    Full support dynamic volume (backup/restore/clone)
    New interface of backup management for business convenience


The GIVEAWAY

I have 5 licenses of EaseUS Todo Backup Workstation 4.5 to be distributed to lucky reader. If you are interested, follow these steps below....

    The winners will be announced on this page after 1 week."

Now approaching the last day or two I think, if you're interested..

There's a free version (very good) for home users: the workstation version offers extra functions.

And unlike Acronis TI (as yet), I understand Easeus ToDo Backup is compatible with the latest Windows 8.

Hope that's of interest..

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Found Deals and Discounts / Paragon Partition Manager for £7-95 - 68% off (via Ashampoo regular offers)

« on: February 21, 2008, 06:53 PM »

Ashampoo frequently sends out email discounts, mostly on their own products, but sometimes for 3rd party products at very low prices.

Sign up for Ashampoo's newsletters to get these offers- though they can be annoyingly frequent. (So just arrange to bin them periodically)

Archive letters (examples)
http://r.ashampoo.co...7275&lk=I3ipkl79

I recall they offered PCMover for 50% off a while back, and a deal on some Scansoft software.

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Found Deals and Discounts / In the UK: Laplink & cable free with Windows Vista Magazine (Feb)

« on: February 21, 2008, 06:30 PM »

Hi, In Asda, Sainsbury, Wallmart (yes, Wallmart in the UK- they took over Asda I seem to remember); Windows Vista mag for Feb has a free copy of Laplink PC Mover + cable.

BTW- has anyone actually tried PCMover?

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Found Deals and Discounts / IOLO Search and recover 4 - free. Sign up for the newsletter.

« on: February 21, 2008, 06:24 PM »

Hi,
 
Go here to get a free copy of IOLO's Search and Recover 4.
 
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You have to confirm your subscription/subscribe to the newsletter; requires address details in subsequent pages.
No credit card entries.
 
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Just click the link below to confirm your subscription to the iolo technologies, LLC email list and automatically enter the drawing:

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Best Dialog Extender / Consistent favourite folder access- wow- that was hard! Office->Directory Opus

« on: August 01, 2007, 08:01 AM »

Hi, all I wanted was a consistent way of going to favourite folders with

Directory Opus, Foxit Reader, Office, explorer, wordpad and notepad,
(maybe Winrar is hard as one program mentions it).

It took me a couple of days looking around and trying about 12 programs to find a consistent colution (I think). A year or two back I started here, and have used Filebox Extender. But hey, it doesn't work with Wordpad or Foxit Reader - no extra buttons. Context menu extensions CFI Shelltoys and Regtoy have 'Goto Folder'- but these behave differently in different contexts; for example, Directory Opus allows Regtoy on right click on a blank pane area, but not Shelltoys.

The top two came out as
Chameleon Folder (www.neosofts.com) and Autodialogs (www.metaproducts.com).

Of these, inconsistency in displaying the extra button on Foxit Reader's open-save dialog box won the day for Chameleon.

One minor bug in Chameleon is in configuring the submenus and folders to display correctly- it seems to need one folder between submenus. (There's no separator).

Chameleon works with Directory Opus, Office, Wordpad, Notepad, Foxit Reader, Explorer, Winrar.


Programs I tried included:
Fast Folders, ABF Favourite folders, Folder Jockey, Shelltoys, Regtoy, Fast Directories, Quick Folders, PS Hot Folders, Access Folders. Folder Express. (DM2 admittely doesn't yet support Office).

Direct Folders for some reason did nothing, while Folder Express and Xfolderdialog installed but their trial had already expired.

Well, I hope that saves someone a lot of time!

David L.

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UrlSnooper / Wpcap.dll missing- but can't uninstall or reinstall winpcap

« on: May 09, 2007, 08:12 PM »

URL Snooper 2 fails to start now- well, WinPcap more exactly.

"This application has failed to start because wpcap.dll was not found. Re-installing..

But when I try to reinstall (& yes, I did install winpcap) it says 'Winpcap is already installed....!' Catch 22.

There's no add-remove entry for wpcap or winpcap.
Nothing in the registry for wpcap or winpcap.

Ideas welcome! Thanks, David L.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / EX Cat - a strightforward reliable catalogue program

« on: March 25, 2007, 08:24 AM »

EZ Cat (http://www.loggytronic.com)

If you want a solid, few frills file & folder disk catalogue program that is really straightforward to use, try this.

"EZ Cat was originally commercial and after a good few years of success it is now freeware."

No mp3 tags, doesn't look inside mp3's.

But no really awkward interface bugs either- straightforward old explorer style.

By comparison, I found some views in CDVISTA non-intuitive and I was scrambling around to find the parent folder of what I'd found at first.
After trying about 6 freeware programs, I'm surprised I've not found a neater looking program that meets my basic needs.

dalchina

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ProcessTamer / 140k or not to be 140k?

« on: February 24, 2007, 09:17 AM »

Hi, good idea, I wanted to limit explorer & IE taking over my PC when they load.

The blurb on this prog said it was small.... small and efficient.. task manager says it's over 7Mb- is that just me? 

dalchina