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1. 
   Review - BS.Player

   2.22.952 (Jul 31, 2007)

   Avoid this spyware-laden program.
   
   There are better free alternatives out there, such as Media Player Classic with FFdshow or the videolan player.
   
   I don't see how an advanced user would ever install this over the alternatives mentioned.

2. 
   Review - RealPlayer for Windows

   10.5 Build 6.0.12.1741 (Dec 1, 2006)

   Nice screenshot, very smart from Real's pr dep.
   
   Nice chick, horrid program. avoid like the plague.
   
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3. 
   Review - Ad Muncher

   4.7.26039 Beta (Aug 25, 2006)

   I don't understand all this Proxomitron bashing by admuncher fans and admuncher bashing by the proxo ones.
   Both are very different programs, the only thing in common is that both are capable of blocking ads. I found Admuncher to be excellent at doing its job (just blocking ads indeed) while Proxo, on the other hand is a much more versatile program, it can not only block ads but completely rewrite any page/domain as well as the HTTP routines from the ground up.
   Proxo itself could be "dead" but the program's strenght relies on the filters, anybody with some regexp knowledge can modify the filters to suit *any* page/domain to any personal needs without problems.
   For the "set & forget" lovers Admuncher is a no brainer tho.

4. 
   Review - Google Pack

   Beta (Jan 9, 2006)

   Google's got to be kidding with this release..
   Let's see, Norton, realplayer, acrobat reader 7 all packed together? i can hardly imagine a worse compilation of bloatware.
   All these programs hogs your pc with unnecessary startup services and have their own "updaters" making the google updater application/service redundant and pointless.

5. 
   Review - ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP

   5.13 (Dec 29, 2005)

   What were they thinking when they dumped the good old control panel goes beyond my comprehension. I DON'T WANT or NEED the highly bloated .NET framework on my system; and certainly ATi just lost points in my book for forcing we, the consumers, to use a heavy third-party framework just to set up a hardware component such as the graphics card.
   
   I wasn't sure of what brand to get since i'm about to upgrade soon. Now i'm pretty much certain im going with Nvidia this time.

6. Comment - WindowBlinds 5 Brings Vista UI to XP

   5.13 (Dec 1, 2005 - 8:21 AM)

   I've been testing this app for a couple days now and i have to say it's overall a pretty good program. It's far from perfect trough. So far i've noticed:
   
   -Serious slowing down/extensive cpu usage while using opera 8.51 in *some* cases (it has to something to do with other windows open at the same time)
   
   -on a freshly rebooted system, with just the firewall loaded (no antivirus,unneeded services etc) i notice a somewhat constant 2% - 5% cpu peaks every 4 secs or so
   
   -It hanged up after changing the gamma options
   
   -word processors - rss readers -email clients slow down my system to a crawl without any reason whatsoever, i'm trying to find a reliable method to reproduce this.
   
   (i didn't had those issues before, while using a patched uxtheme.)
   
   And so far it's good that wbhelp.exe is not running all the time anymore, but it integrates DLL's to the system theming engine (hooking it maybe?) instead (Wblind.dll, Wbsrv.dll, Wbhelp.dll, Wbui.dll) so there's no way it uses less resource than xp's default theming serv since now it depends on it.