PowerDesk Pro 9 For Win10 - Do NOT buy or Use

Just a warning...

I used to use PD starting with ver 4 years ago. It worked great. I
think the original folks sold out to a conglomerate. In any case, by
the time they were up to around ver 8 it was buggy, By ver 9 it was a
mess. Ver 9 came out 3 or 4 years ago. I had not heard from the
company, Advantquest for years. Got an email from them a month ago
for an update to Ver9, they said it was now compatible with Win10. So
for $19 I upgraded and installed it on my Win7 machine. It actually
seemed to work. Then last week I bought a new Win10 machine so I
uninstalled it from the old machine and installed it on the New Win10
machine. At the very first reboot it threw and error message "Error
loading kvvapi.dll". Did a reinstall, no change. In trying to use
the program it had display messups within it's own window. Then when
I clicked on Desktop in the left pane it tossed out another error
message about not finding some DLL.

So I uninstalled it. Thank goodness the kvvapi error went away after
uninstalling it.

What a piece of trash the program STILL is. I went to their "support"
and while the support page they send you to lists about 50 programs
they "support" in the drop down menu, PowerDesk ISN'T one of them.

On 18/01/2016 01:26, Ashton Crusher wrote:
Just a warning...

I used to use PD starting with ver 4 years ago. It worked great. I
think the original folks sold out to a conglomerate. In any case, by
the time they were up to around ver 8 it was buggy, By ver 9 it was a
mess. Ver 9 came out 3 or 4 years ago. I had not heard from the
company, Advantquest for years. Got an email from them a month ago
for an update to Ver9, they said it was now compatible with Win10. So
for $19 I upgraded and installed it on my Win7 machine. It actually
seemed to work. Then last week I bought a new Win10 machine so I
uninstalled it from the old machine and installed it on the New Win10
machine. At the very first reboot it threw and error message "Error
loading kvvapi.dll". Did a reinstall, no change. In trying to use
the program it had display messups within it's own window. Then when
I clicked on Desktop in the left pane it tossed out another error
message about not finding some DLL.

So I uninstalled it. Thank goodness the kvvapi error went away after
uninstalling it.

What a piece of trash the program STILL is. I went to their "support"
and while the support page they send you to lists about 50 programs
they "support" in the drop down menu, PowerDesk ISN'T one of them.


I'm still using the free version of PD 4 which came on a magazine cover
disk years ago. Works perfectly well with W7 (32 & 64 bit) and may well
work with W10. I'm sure that later versions have more bells and whistles
- but if they're not reliable, what the hell?!
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Cheers,
Roger
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On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:21:09 +0000, Roger Mills
wrote:

On 18/01/2016 01:26, Ashton Crusher wrote:
Just a warning...

I used to use PD starting with ver 4 years ago. It worked great. I
think the original folks sold out to a conglomerate. In any case, by
the time they were up to around ver 8 it was buggy, By ver 9 it was a
mess. Ver 9 came out 3 or 4 years ago. I had not heard from the
company, Advantquest for years. Got an email from them a month ago
for an update to Ver9, they said it was now compatible with Win10. So
for $19 I upgraded and installed it on my Win7 machine. It actually
seemed to work. Then last week I bought a new Win10 machine so I
uninstalled it from the old machine and installed it on the New Win10
machine. At the very first reboot it threw and error message "Error
loading kvvapi.dll". Did a reinstall, no change. In trying to use
the program it had display messups within it's own window. Then when
I clicked on Desktop in the left pane it tossed out another error
message about not finding some DLL.

So I uninstalled it. Thank goodness the kvvapi error went away after
uninstalling it.

What a piece of trash the program STILL is. I went to their "support"
and while the support page they send you to lists about 50 programs
they "support" in the drop down menu, PowerDesk ISN'T one of them.


I'm still using the free version of PD 4 which came on a magazine cover
disk years ago. Works perfectly well with W7 (32 & 64 bit) and may well
work with W10. I'm sure that later versions have more bells and whistles
- but if they're not reliable, what the hell?!

What i suspect, but have not confirmed, is if you did an upgrade, the
DLL was still in the system and found. A new install, probably does
not have this DLL. I have heard of other programs that worked with the
upgrade, but not clean install.

Mike