Free software every day

[PurpleDemon]

Has to be registered in the 24hr. period correct?

Yup.

[dr_ml422]

What was it that didn't convince you? Too vigorous? Not user-friendly? I downloaded the compressed folder, but didn't open it. So I guess it's too late huh? Has to be registered in the 24hr. period correct?

[MilesAhead]

I'm saying I tried Wise and didn't like it. Some people swear by it. It's all what works for you. If you buy a car and it's always aces, it's a great car, even if 97% of the people who get in rear-end collisions burn to death due to the gas tank exploding. Hey, I didn't get burned and it always starts right up for me!!

[dr_ml422]

For them that believes in 'em Wise Reg cleaner is the giveaway of the day today:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

I think I tried it once on Vista and it made me feel kinda' itchy.. anyway, I took it off and didn't go back. Not cleaning but compacting the free NTREGOPT seems to work in both 32 bit and 64 bit Vista. I feel pretty comfortable using that utility. But that's just my preference.

So Miles you really don't buy into reg cleaners, or you saying that you do n if anyone else does then get this free giveaway?

OTN, I swear I haven't seen anything like Acronis true Image. That baby takes a snapshot of your drive to the tee. I have my dell backed up on another hdd just in case. All I would do is plug it in n that's it. Unbelievable software.

[MilesAhead]

I never heard of Paragon until a nasty BHO deleted my C: partition on my old XP PC. Searching around and looking on the various product forums I tried to guess which imaging backup would work best on my PCs. I picked the Drive Backup Personal for image backup. Looks like they have been in business for a long time doing disk specialty software.

In fact I was playing around with styles on my Vista 32 bit system last night and hosed it. Glad I had an image backup that was only a few days old. Hooked up the external and 45 minutes later I was booting back into Vista 32 just like nothing happened! I guess I picked the right one that time.. at least for my PCs.

[blutach]

Paragon's stuff is usually pretty good. After that freebie cured my problems on the other machine, I upgraded to version 9 of its Hard Disk Manager. I guess this is what freebies are for - to show the power of the products.

Regards

[MilesAhead]

Paragon Total Defrag Special Edition for 32 bit

I just got serial and download for Paragon Total Defrag SE for 32 bit Windows systems. From what I see it's like a TOTAL defrag that can run for hours and hours as it shifts file order around, shrinks MFTs and yadda yadda. Not for the paranoid. I'd recommend having an image backup before running it. But if you like things wicked unfragmented you might want to try it.

http://for-free-on-internet.com/2009/03/paragon-total-defrag-2009-the-missed-hot-find-2-and-a-word-to-raymondcc/

edit: I haven't used it yet myself so I can't vouch for it. I just downloaded because it was available. I may try it on XP at some point since that backup set is very small on my system. So I'd say proceed with caution.

[MilesAhead]

Wise Reg Cleaner

For them that believes in 'em Wise Reg cleaner is the giveaway of the day today:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

I think I tried it once on Vista and it made me feel kinda' itchy.. anyway, I took it off and didn't go back. Not cleaning but compacting the free NTREGOPT seems to work in both 32 bit and 64 bit Vista. I feel pretty comfortable using that utility. But that's just my preference.

[PurpleDemon]

Put it in a .zip file.

Great Idea

Thanks

[cynthia]

I tried to attach the difference, but the ico file is invalid for the forum.

Put it in a .zip file.

[MilesAhead]

The best one I've found so far for free is Greenfish Icon Editor. I don't use the drawing in Greenfish. I use Photofiltre 64x64 and generate a .jpg then use Greenfish to convert. It is nice in that you can select what icon sizes and color depths you want included.

Then again, I don't attempt to draw pictures. I usually stick a letter or a couple of swipes with a brush on a colored field. But the conversions seem to work in everything afiak.

http://greenfish.extra.hu/

[PurpleDemon]

I guess the icon is with lower quality than the original portrait. I don't know if this is normal.

I tried to attach the difference, but the ico file is invalid for the forum.

I assume you know what you are looking for, it is free today.

I'd be curious to know your opinion.

I do know freeware of a program like this is hard to find when I searched for photo_angel2004 some time back when she was looking for something like this.

Thanks

[doctorhardware]

Burrell, how is the quality of the converted Icon. Is the clarity of the icon good.

[PurpleDemon]

Giveaway of the Day - png2icon 1.0

Png2Icon is a little software tool lets you convert from PNG to Windows icon formats without losing any quality. Png2Icon uses advanced resampling filters, what allows you to create very good icons from any images.

It is very simple and straight forward. It DOES work in Vista 32 bit as I have tested that.

https://www.giveawayoftheday.com

[ger@co]

They're just a bunch of commies, but I have been warned.

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