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Giveaway of the Day - Start Menu X Pro
I know nothing about this software, but it sounds like some might want
to use this for a Start Menu under Windows 8. Start Menu X is a replacement of the system menu for power users. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/start-menu-pro/ -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 |
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Giveaway of the Day - Start Menu X Pro
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:48:19 -0800, Evan Platt
wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:05:25 -0600, "BillW50" wrote: I know nothing about this software, but it sounds like some might want to use this for a Start Menu under Windows 8. Start Menu X is a replacement of the system menu for power users. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/start-menu-pro/ Not that impressed with it. I use Classic Start Menu - which has the classic start button when you press the Keyboard Start buttonn - I couldn't find a way to do that in Start Menu Pro. There are several such choices, but my personal favorite is Start8. -- Ken Blake |
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Giveaway of the Day - Start Menu X Pro
BillW50 wrote:
I know nothing about this software, but it sounds like some might want to use this for a Start Menu under Windows 8. Start Menu X is a replacement of the system menu for power users. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/start-menu-pro/ If GOTD doesn't provide a link to get the download from another site, like from the author, or the author hasn't explicitly told GOTD to *not* use their wrapper, you can only install this software today. Tomorrow, a month from now, or later when you need to install the software it will phone home (and error if you don't permit or have an Internet connection) to check the giveaway day and finding it is long after will abort the installation. You have only today to get it installed. That's how GOTD works: today is the only day you can install. From the above URL, yep, it's a wrappered app. GOTD's has wrappered their phone-home-to-validate software around the program. As they state on that web page (emphasis added), "You have 3 hours 50 minutes to download AND INSTALL it." After that, it won't install ever again. Do you really want to add a program to your suite of software that has only one day on which it can be installed (and that day has long passed to reinstall)? Even if you think having just one day to install is okay because you'll leave it permanently installed, hardware does fail. What are you going to do with their wrapped download when you have to replace a failed hard disk or wipe an infected one and start over? Say bye-bye to that GOTD-wrapped software. |
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Giveaway of the Day - Start Menu X Pro
On 2/21/2013 10:14 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
BillW50 wrote: I know nothing about this software, but it sounds like some might want to use this for a Start Menu under Windows 8. Start Menu X is a replacement of the system menu for power users. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/start-menu-pro/ If GOTD doesn't provide a link to get the download from another site, like from the author, or the author hasn't explicitly told GOTD to *not* use their wrapper, you can only install this software today. Tomorrow, a month from now, or later when you need to install the software it will phone home (and error if you don't permit or have an Internet connection) to check the giveaway day and finding it is long after will abort the installation. You have only today to get it installed. That's how GOTD works: today is the only day you can install. From the above URL, yep, it's a wrappered app. GOTD's has wrappered their phone-home-to-validate software around the program. As they state on that web page (emphasis added), "You have 3 hours 50 minutes to download AND INSTALL it." After that, it won't install ever again. Do you really want to add a program to your suite of software that has only one day on which it can be installed (and that day has long passed to reinstall)? Even if you think having just one day to install is okay because you'll leave it permanently installed, hardware does fail. What are you going to do with their wrapped download when you have to replace a failed hard disk or wipe an infected one and start over? Say bye-bye to that GOTD-wrapped software. Whoa! You are getting a full version of a commercial product for free. And you are complaining about that you have 24 hours to install it and to activate it? Geez are you hard to please. If you don't like the deal, then purchase the product outright. No big deal! I purchased a lot of software I seen first on GAOTD. And it is nice that the first one is free. ;-) -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 7 Pro SP1 (x86) |
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Giveaway of the Day - Start Menu X Pro
BillW50 wrote:
On 2/21/2013 10:14 PM, VanguardLH wrote: BillW50 wrote: I know nothing about this software, but it sounds like some might want to use this for a Start Menu under Windows 8. Start Menu X is a replacement of the system menu for power users. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/start-menu-pro/ If GOTD doesn't provide a link to get the download from another site, like from the author, or the author hasn't explicitly told GOTD to *not* use their wrapper, you can only install this software today. Tomorrow, a month from now, or later when you need to install the software it will phone home (and error if you don't permit or have an Internet connection) to check the giveaway day and finding it is long after will abort the installation. You have only today to get it installed. That's how GOTD works: today is the only day you can install. From the above URL, yep, it's a wrappered app. GOTD's has wrappered their phone-home-to-validate software around the program. As they state on that web page (emphasis added), "You have 3 hours 50 minutes to download AND INSTALL it." After that, it won't install ever again. Do you really want to add a program to your suite of software that has only one day on which it can be installed (and that day has long passed to reinstall)? Even if you think having just one day to install is okay because you'll leave it permanently installed, hardware does fail. What are you going to do with their wrapped download when you have to replace a failed hard disk or wipe an infected one and start over? Say bye-bye to that GOTD-wrapped software. Whoa! You are getting a full version of a commercial product for free. And you are complaining about that you have 24 hours to install it and to activate it? Geez are you hard to please. If you don't like the deal, then purchase the product outright. No big deal! I purchased a lot of software I seen first on GAOTD. And it is nice that the first one is free. ;-) If you could only install Windows once, even if it were free, would you then rely on the availability of the OS thereafter? You won't ever be able to install it again, like after putzing around in the registry that makes it unbootable or replacing a failed hard disk. Are you really going to rely on ANY software for *continued* accessibility if you can only install it once AND only on one specific day? Anything with the GOTD wrapper should be used as a trial version (where there doesn't exist a fully functional trial version from the author). Test it in a virtual machine, or on your real host if you don't mind its pollution after an uninstall (which includes, say, a failed hard disk). I was merely pointing out a warning to anyone not familiar with GOTD's trick of enveloping the downloads in their phone-home wrapper that must be afforded Internet access during installation and will abort if either there is no such connection to GOTD's site or if their wrapper finds the one day allowed for installation has elapsed. As long as users know what will happen with GOTD-downloaded software then they won't get surprised later when they later want to reinstall that same software but find they cannot. You get just one shot for the install, it has to be immediately (on the giveaway day) which means you have no time to research the product if you are not already familiar with it, and you'll never be able to reinstall it again (unless you know how to strip off their wrapper -- hint, hint). |
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