Please, marry me! :)

Pros: The installer is simple, you got shortcuts for all the tools you need.

Right after installing this program got a clear interface if you really about to backup your datas. I found it quite easy to define what i want to do, seems userfriendly to me. For the start, i recommend simple copy process with a custom once-to-run schedulded job. After that you should try the backup job where i strongly recommend to click on the Expert button which will bring up various important windows like ZIP settings. This compression windows will be important if you want to create your backup zip with as lower size as possible.

Right before you can actually run the real process, you are able to run a simulation: which will come in handy if you afraid that datas mightn't be overwritten.

The process speed is ok, you can get infos about the percent in help baloons.

After the first ten minutes i suggest you to improve your user experience by useing the Preferences, it has some very useful option.

The program will automaticly create you the - windows own - schedulded job with all the basic needed parameters then you can decide if you want to schedulde it by month, etc. (this is up to the windows functions). Seems great.

The chm help is extensive, you can find all the basic infos you might need.

The About/Uninstall is very new thing to me but good idea.

Cons: E-mail/proxy usage functions need more tests. Baloon tool tips have unsure locations (fe. when the program is minimized): after that uninstall idea, i don't know if this is a bug or not.

Posted: 21-Jul-2006 12:08:18 AM

A kind of good tool for archiving but think about what you need. Got high price.

Pros: You can predefine to run the program as an administrator on Windows Vista, cool! It's a new thing from the company but you can also specify language type (they should create a switch for more texts per language, cause this is only the interface). This is English and German currently.

Command line is a very good thing unless you use other tools for archiving purposes. Also, the help is quite useful for these jobs.

The spees is ok and at the end of the wizard you can test, then even mail the archive right from the program.

Cons: If you got an example.zip which got an example.exe within and you want to run example.exe from prompt, you must rename the zip or the exe, cause the program won't do that for you (it won't allow to run example.exe cause it's the same as the new sfx name). The help need little update or correction for exact name.

124-128k is a plus to the file and some installers can attach less than this (no encryption was used).

The double-extension for the text save is just not a wise idea cause of virus scanners.

If the zip file is not password-protected, then the self-extracting Zip file won't be password-protected either. So you can forgot the advantage of encryption, whatever high number the program would use. The compression algorythm is not unique, i saw this at the free createinstall, too.

No link for the uninstaller or for home page and the price is too high, yet.

Posted: 07-Aug-2007 04:36:43 AM

The 3.1 version is much better than 3.0.

Pros: This is easier to setup and install and the quick start informs me about general problems (like what to do with the automaticly detected firewall). There were many bug fixes and some more improvments after 3.0, so this new release is more stable.

The network detection works fine and you can get a much better view than you can see from the general MS discovery. From the visual display you can decide what is what.

While working as beta i had received a great support so i think the support is good anyway. So, i thnink if any problems exists, just contact the support (forum is recommended, friendly air).

(The NM no longer hangs - causing me crash - next to unknown router or connection. /wrote at last review/)

The grapics are nice and the program tries to show you own icons for each network interface kinds (like server, notebook, router, etc.).

You can check the status of your machines' windows updates and some other security settings.

Cons: Support more-more-more... routers and network devices.

While the Net2Go feature is very useful, you can only get it's benefit if your router supports the usage.

Your own high custom security settings might cause that Network Magic can't recognise your machine correctly. Right now there's no advice what to change or allow.

At the current release you can't set up time for discovery timing which may cause high network traffic (more computers + more network magics = more network usage)

The shareing's security is too light. Allowing full control for group Everyone makes me unsure how to trust this product!

Posted: 19-Jul-2006 05:08:15 AM