Not Good For 98SE

Pros: Very good ad blocking in page ads. Easy to install and configure. The tech support is very friendly and helpful.

Cons: 1. Causes invalid fault errors in Windows 98SE.

2. Looses settings on exit.

3. Assumes you know every portion of a web page- and who they're linked to for the ad-blocking feature. A nice idea, but totally unrealistic for ad heavy sites. And blocking the wrong thing can cause a page to disply incorrectly...

4. Can freeze the program or lock your system up when turned off.

Posted: 17-Jun-2007 11:44:21 AM

Buggy & Difficult

Pros: It has a free version and a huge user-based community support center.

Plug-ins otherwise missing from the program are written by the users. (Also a con...)

No 'spyware' I could see. It's free... And, uhm..., it's free.

Cons: 1. Does not play all .wma's (Windows Media Audio) files, even when Windows Media Player and Windows Shell will. (I rip my cd's to drive to save wear & tear on them.)

2. With a full gig of ram, files should play smoothly. With Win Amp, they were choppy, broken, or even prematurely ended... This was the only player that had this problem.

3. Not supported by developers- when searching their web site for help topics, you are told to post to a forum for specific questions not covered. There are no help files to speak of (except a hotkey list) within Win Amp itself.

Oh, and if you right-click on various parts of Win Amp enough, you can 'teach yourself' how to use it's less-than friendly "classic mode" interface.

4. They have dealings with AOL.

5. Plug-in content created by users often have bad descriptions, inaccuracy, or do not work correctly.

6. Totally f'ed my codecs up. When I uninstalled Win Amp, made it worse. Had to reload Windows and codecs from scratch.

Posted: 06-Mar-2007 02:26:09 PM

*****?!?!?!?!???

Pros: Very customizable. Its help files are online only, so you might want to save the web page, copy it to Word or your office program, or have Acrobat Pro convert it to a .pdf.

CCleaner will give you ultra-generic overviews of features if you select the options individually.

Cons: CCleaner has no status bar whatsoever. You have to guess by your Windows cursor if it's working.

It shut itself down without any reason or warning. Though it wasn't a "crash" per say. There was no lag or error... Didn't interfere with Windows at all... It literally just stopped by itself.

It does leave temp files and cookies in Windows... Thus making it not worth the time it takes to download the program...

Posted: 07-Mar-2007 03:55:59 AM