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Twayne
Hi,
HiJackFree was recommended recently on this group. I thought I'd return
the favor with a short synopsis of my opinion of the program so far. I
downloaded the freebie version yesterday and have spent some time
playing with it.
-- It's a keeper.
-- For the techinically minded, it doesn't do anything really "special"
but what it DOES do "special" is bring a lot of separately accessed and
used settings, management abilities and analysis together into one,
almost turn-key package. That alone is a biggie IMO for the technically
minded.
-- For those intermediate users, I'd say this could be an outstanding
tool to learn and manage your computers with.
-- For those with a smattering of kowledge about processes, services,
etc., this could also be a great tool, but without paying attention it
could also be dangerous to the health of your system. So, as with
anything that messes with the OS areas, be certain your backups are
current and preferably the disks imaged.
-- For those with no knowledge of the capabilities of this program I
would say tread carefully. Windows naming conventions are strange and
don't always mean what they appear to mean or mean different things in
different contexts, so making a mistake could be disastous. Learn more
about using XP to accomplish these tasks and how it all fits together,
THEN try this tool if you feel you must. It has some built in
protections, but if you can't boot ... well ... <g>.
So, most any "computer user" should be ablel to make use of this
program. If however you don't do backups regularly, don't do backups
before you touch anything to do with your operating system, or better
yet keep the system drive imaged, you are NOT a computer user! I won't
say what I think you are.
On the cons side:
-- I think the screen needs more warning about backing up and that it's
possible to damage the OS beyond bootability.
-- I've only noticed one very minor "bug" so far: One screen says
"Updating" before you've clicked the "Update" button. It said it was
getting the updates, so I just waited to see what they would be. But
nothing happened. So I clicked teh Update button and the update
activities started.
-- I like not having to reboot to use the program. It looks like it's
written in VB or similar so it apparently doesn't depend on the
Registry.
Other than that, I've found nothing serious and like the puling together
of the various functions into one application.
The only thing that might be missing, but I might have just
overlooked, is I couldn't find "Dependencies" for the services and
processes. It's probably there and I just didn't find it; it's needed
though, if you're going to play with some of the available settings or
the person could be unknowingly changing things they're not aware.
I'll also be passing this along to the author.
HTH,
Twayne`
Cheers,
Twayne
HiJackFree was recommended recently on this group. I thought I'd return
the favor with a short synopsis of my opinion of the program so far. I
downloaded the freebie version yesterday and have spent some time
playing with it.
-- It's a keeper.
-- For the techinically minded, it doesn't do anything really "special"
but what it DOES do "special" is bring a lot of separately accessed and
used settings, management abilities and analysis together into one,
almost turn-key package. That alone is a biggie IMO for the technically
minded.
-- For those intermediate users, I'd say this could be an outstanding
tool to learn and manage your computers with.
-- For those with a smattering of kowledge about processes, services,
etc., this could also be a great tool, but without paying attention it
could also be dangerous to the health of your system. So, as with
anything that messes with the OS areas, be certain your backups are
current and preferably the disks imaged.
-- For those with no knowledge of the capabilities of this program I
would say tread carefully. Windows naming conventions are strange and
don't always mean what they appear to mean or mean different things in
different contexts, so making a mistake could be disastous. Learn more
about using XP to accomplish these tasks and how it all fits together,
THEN try this tool if you feel you must. It has some built in
protections, but if you can't boot ... well ... <g>.
So, most any "computer user" should be ablel to make use of this
program. If however you don't do backups regularly, don't do backups
before you touch anything to do with your operating system, or better
yet keep the system drive imaged, you are NOT a computer user! I won't
say what I think you are.
On the cons side:
-- I think the screen needs more warning about backing up and that it's
possible to damage the OS beyond bootability.
-- I've only noticed one very minor "bug" so far: One screen says
"Updating" before you've clicked the "Update" button. It said it was
getting the updates, so I just waited to see what they would be. But
nothing happened. So I clicked teh Update button and the update
activities started.
-- I like not having to reboot to use the program. It looks like it's
written in VB or similar so it apparently doesn't depend on the
Registry.
Other than that, I've found nothing serious and like the puling together
of the various functions into one application.
The only thing that might be missing, but I might have just
overlooked, is I couldn't find "Dependencies" for the services and
processes. It's probably there and I just didn't find it; it's needed
though, if you're going to play with some of the available settings or
the person could be unknowingly changing things they're not aware.
I'll also be passing this along to the author.
HTH,
Twayne`
Cheers,
Twayne