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   Review - Vistapack XP

   2.3 Beta (Mar 5, 2008)

   Good program.
   
   To counter the Vista trolls up here, there are many bad issues with Vista, so I will begin with just a few for starters:
   
   1) Activation: Treating honest customers like trash, forcing activation, reactivation, controlling what they do with what they buy. Ask yourself, if you would rather the car maker do the same, hey, we designed your car, own the patent, you just pay for the rights to use it so we tell you how far and where you will go?
   
   In addition, imagine if an emergency room used Vista, it decides to go into enhanced reduced functionality mode in the middle of a critical operation WAH!!!! Too bad, legit or not, we flagged you as a pirate!
   
   Don't forget, if their activation server(s) went down, or were inaccessible, hello, you would be stuck!
   
   In addition, some people do use camera phones to take a pic of the key code on new Vista releases, go home, install the new key, a legit customer buys it & the first thing he or she sees is YOU ARE A FILTHY PIRATE!!! 500,000 dollars, or 5 years in prison good buddy!
   
   2) The trusted computing platform Vista is built on. Reducing certain digital vids to analog to try to prevent "video" piracy. Since when does a dumb OS know more than you do about what is or isn't "pirated" films?
   
   I have a good might to make my own & dare Vista to call me a pirate so I can sue!!! I am serious!!!
   
   3) UAC controls in Vista. More secure? Ask user about every file they open?
   
   Sure, great way to waste time, & hello, that still does nothing to educate the uneducated about whether a file is safe to run or not!
   
   4) WGA + updates. Updates downloads a "critical" update called WGA. I would hardly call a program that spies on you critical.
   
   5) Vista introduces nightmarish system requirements, in addition to DX of all DX's version 10. Never mind having DX 9, whaaaaa...., they envision "forcing" customers to upgrade through new games and things that use DX 10 since the will not make DX 10 for XP
   
   6) Forget truly erasing tracks. Unlike running regular programs to securely wipe, Vista makes regular disk images in addition to System Restore, that has versions of what you worked on so that if you "removed" something, someone could call an old version back up, inadvertently "spying" on you & your private info unless you did a totally clean install & wiped the drive CLEAN.
   
   7) XP runs rings around Vista, even with the fancy aeroshell & adjust for best performance turned off.
   
   8) What were they thinking? The start menu sucks! XP Start menu is awesome. Vista, nah, trash! Even their old, well, I know you can set it to classic, but Vista classic goes to a 98ish menu instead of XP.
   
   9) File menu's & system exploring. You simply cannot get things done like you can in XP. There are a few general areas that Vista is stronger in, or looks better in doing, but many file/copy/paste/arrange options will not work in Vista no matter what you do to get it going!
   
   10) You can download a UXtheme patcher for XP, click patch, reboot, then download any Vista or XP visual styles you want & they will work in XP.
   
   Yes, for free, can make start menu look like XP, toolbar, the works, but with XP FUNCTIONALITY.
   
   This is only the beginning of problems in Vista & things that Vista cannot do.
   
   MS is trying to forcefeed Vista, but the digital lockdowns built in aren't worth hacking.
   
   They can be, but XP does everything I want, & stable as well.
   
   Anything Vista can do, XP can do better.
   
   MS is dying, so Vista is a last ditch effort to stay alive.
   
   Proof of it is the declining market shares to freeware such as Firefox replacing IE, Ubuntu replacing XP, it's coming, it's happening, & nothing will stop the truth!

2. 
   Review - TUGZip

   3.4.0.2 (Feb 22, 2008)

   I give this program a 5, because it is clean, simple, works great.
   
   It does have a couple of things I can gripe about though.
   
   Winrar will allow you to add an icon to the SFX extractor, plus show a license screen (handy for showing ahem, the serials of some programs that went freeware & have the key included).
   
   But tugzip doesn't allow you to change the icon of the SFX. In addition, doesn't seem to support totally silent SFX like winrar, but shows an extract dialogue.
   
   Am slightly annoyed that it shows 3 possibilities for SFX package, but you can only use 1 because the other 2 are greyed out.
   
   But for zipping, unzipping, yada yada, works nice.
   Would really love to see support for viewing sfx comments (so you can remember/change it in the future if you have to, like winrar), & the ability to change the icon of the sfx, plus a totally silent sfx.
   
   Because sometimes you just want it to launch, say, a driver backup program with no dialogue.
   
   Overall, good program, but would be better with these enhancements!