em4020
I am interested in empiric reports with PROs + CONs of applications. I am a fan of AlternativeTo.net & enjoy to find & give here comparative information about distinguishing application features. I use WinXP, Vista, Win7 & BlackBerry 9860, I like Win7, Delphi, portable apps, Waze & virtual machines.
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Comments & Reviews
Reviewed Referata★★★★★In April 2023 I like like Miraheze and EditThis as best alternatives to Referata.com, because both Miraheze and EditThis are very good migration targets for my numerous wiki-sites based on MediaWiki on referata.com. Unfortunately referata.com has been deactivated 2022, the Referata.com-wiki-platform is since 2022 inacccesible.
Reviewed ShoutWiki★★★★★I like ShoutWiki, because I can migrate my numerous wiki-sites from http://www.referata.com, which has been closed 2022, to ShoutWiki. ShoutWiki also is based on MediaWiki-syntax similar to Referata.com, Wikipedia, Miraheze, EditThis. Because ShoutWiki is Ad-financed I think it will be a better migration target than Miraheze with not enough money to pay the servers longer than until June 2023.
Reviewed Panda Dome★★Error messages in Panda AV with Windows XP since April 2018:
Until end of April 2018 Panda AV was the best AV-solution for Windows XP, because it is a very slim AV-application with a low demand of RAM. Now this error message pops up every few minutes, so I must look for another AV-application for Windows XP. Because of this bad behaviour (I think only in Windows XP) I must reduce...
Reviewed XMarks★EverSync is the best replacement for XMarks, which stops syncing with May 1, 2018
I am convinced, EverSync is the best replacement for XMarks, which is no longer available after May 1, 2018. EverSync is a multi-platform bookmark syncing service, very useful, if you want to sync your bookmarks on more than one browser. Like XMarks did, its service...
Commented on MEGANew local folders und files are not automatically synced to the online storage and to another Windows 10 computer on the Windows 10 Client.
Reviewed Advanced IP Scanner★★★★Since Nov.2016 Softperfect Network Scanner is commercial - Advanced-ip-scanner
Softperfect Network Scanner was only until V.6.1.6 (Nov. 2016) freeware, the Version 7.0.1 (24 Nov. 2016) is alredy commercial. Now I will use Advanced-ip-scanner, because
- like Softperfect Network Scanner it also can be used portable, e.g. in my LiberKey-environment or portable-Apps-com-environment.
- The user interface of softperfect network...
Reviewed SoftPerfect Network Scanner★★Since Nov.2016 Softperfect Network Scanner is commercial - Advanced-ip-scanner
Softperfect Network Scanner was only until V.6.1.6 (Nov. 2016) freeware, the Version 7.0.1 (24 Nov. 2016) is alredy commercial. Now I will use Advanced-ip-scanner, which also can be used portable, e.g. in my LiberKey environment. The user interface of softperfect network scanner was only english, with Advanced-ip-scanner you can select one of 13...
Reviewed Get My Keys Back★★
Reviewed SterJo Key Finder★★★★
Commented on Classic Shell- The start-menu of Windows 10 is unusable. If You install Classic Shell you have the very good start-menu from Windows 7 with printers and autostart group again
- I miss the autostart group in the normal start-menu of Windows 10 without "Classic Shell"
- I like, that "Classic Shell" has a multi-language-UI and an installer in english and 6...
Commented on Windows 10Many Disadvantages of Windows 10:
- The start-menu of Windows 10 is unusable. If You install Classic Shell you have the very good start-menu from Windows 7 with printers and autostart group again
- I miss the autostart group in the start-menu of Windows 10 without "Classic Shell"
- In Windows 10 I cannot change the name of the local "OneDrive"-Folder to "OD" to avoid very long path-names, in Windows 8.1 I could
- I had to reinstall...
Reviewed AOMEI Backupper★★★★Comparing Macrium Reflect Free Edition vs. AOMEI Backupper Free
Advantages of Macrium reflect Free Edition:
- I can can start MR Free backups from the command line from System Scheduler AB Free is not able to make command line backups, only AB pro can be started from the commandline, see Edition Comparison The System Scheduler needs only 4.9 MB of the RAM, Macrium...
Reviewed System Scheduler★★★★- In Z-Cron you cannot sort the events, only in the Windows "Events today" the events are sorted with the start-time of the event
- In System Scheduler all events are sorted with one click by event-name, last run, next run
Reviewed Macrium Reflect★★★★Comparing Macrium Reflect Free Edition vs. AOMEI Backupper Free
Advantages of Macrium reflect Free Edition:
- I can can start MR Free backups from the command line from System Scheduler AB Free is not able to make command line backups, only AB pro can be started from the commandline, see Edition Comparison The System Scheduler needs only 4.9 MB of the RAM, Macrium...
Commented on Seagate DashboardYou cannot configure, what drives or folders are included in the backup. No scheduler, no automatically cleanup of the backup files. The buttons "Protect Now" and "New Backup Plan" have no function, they do not work.
Because Seagate Dashboard is useless, I uninstalled it instantly.
The best free system backup software is Macrium Reflect Free Edition.
Reviewed Task Scheduler★★Advantages of System-Scheduler over Windows Task Scheduler
- Names of the Tasks can be changed
- Tasks can be duplicated
- Backup of all Tasks alltogether to an INI-File
- Restore of all Tasks alltogether from an INI-File
- Export of all Tasks to a CSV-file
- Same professional time scheduling as the Windows Task Scheduler e.g. every third sunday of each month
Disadvantages of System-Scheduler compared with Windows Task Scheduler
- System-Scheduler has only an...
Reviewed Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder★★★★If you install the free version of Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder on Drive C (not portable version) the installing procedure can install automatically TuneUp-Utilities, if you do not change the preselected installation-mode.
The application is very useful. I like, that it produces a txt-file with all detailed product-keys and product-ID's of your installed Microsoft products with only one click.
In the "user defined installation"-mode you can unselect the installation of TuneUp-Utilities....
Reviewed Driver Easy★★★★DriverEasy detected more drivers than SlimDrivers. So I prefer DriverEasy about SlimDrivers. After Slimdrivers had updated all drivers on Vista Business 64bit und reported all drivers to be actual and OK, there remained an "Other USB-device" not working and yellow-marked:
After "optimizing" all drivers with SlimDrivers DriverEasy reported 2 missing and 23 outdated drivers.
Reviewed SlimDrivers★★DriverEasy detected more drivers than SlimDrivers. So I prefer DriverEasy about SlimDrivers. After Slimdrivers had updated all drivers on Vista Business 64bit und reported all drivers to be actual and OK, there remained an "Other USB-device" not working and yellow-marked:
After "optimizing" all drivers with SlimDrivers DriverEasy reported 2 missing and 23 outdated drivers.
Reviewed LiberKey★★★★-
LiberKey is by far the best Portable-Apps-Service I know
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I generally prefer portable apps over programs, which must be installed and change my computers registry
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I can use the portable apps in the Liberkey-management on computers, where I have no admin-rights
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I can use LiberKey portable-apps on a memory-stick or USB-harddisk
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If I change to another computer, I must not again install all my programms, I just copy the LiberKey-folder with all apps
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If I change...
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Reviewed Bullzip PDF Printer★★★★My personal ranking of the 4 PDF-printers is:
- doPDF
- Bullzip PDF PRINTER
- CutePDF
- qvPDF
Advantages of doPDF over Bullzip PDF PRINTER, CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
With one click you can make this folder to the standard folder where to store doPDF-files
Advantages of doPDF and Bullzip PDF PRINTER over CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
- It is easy to choose the folder, where to store the pdf-file
- You can also select the target-folder from recent folders (and...
Reviewed CutePDF Writer★★My personal ranking of the 4 PDF-printers is:
- doPDF
- Bullzip PDF PRINTER
- CutePDF
- qvPDF
Advantages of doPDF over Bullzip PDF PRINTER, CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
With one click you can make this folder to the standard folder where to store doPDF-files
Advantages of doPDF and Bullzip PDF PRINTER over CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
- It is easy to choose the folder, where to store the pdf-file
- You can also select the target-folder from recent folders (and...
Reviewed qvPDF★★My personal ranking of the 4 PDF-printers is:
- doPDF
- Bullzip PDF PRINTER
- CutePDF
- qvPDF
Advantages of doPDF over Bullzip PDF PRINTER, CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
With one click you can make this folder to the standard folder where to store doPDF-files
Advantages of doPDF and Bullzip PDF PRINTER over CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
- It is easy to choose the folder, where to store the pdf-file
- You can also select the target-folder from recent folders (and...
Commented on doPDFMy personal ranking of the 4 PDF-printers is:
- doPDF
- Bullzip PDF PRINTER
- CutePDF
- qvPDF
Advantages of doPDF over Bullzip PDF PRINTER, CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
With one click you can make this folder to the standard folder where to store doPDF-files
Advantages of doPDF and Bullzip PDF PRINTER over CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
- It is easy to choose the folder, where to store the pdf-file
- You can also select the target-folder from recent folders (and...
Reviewed Yahoo Mail★★Yahoo-Mail malfunction not being able to define a new basename for throw-away-addresses
Yahoo-mail has a malfunction not being able to define a new basename for throw-away-addresses. This problem is very old and has been decribed already 2011 on http://de.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111101121041AABusL6 with the subject: "Ich kann keine Wegwerfadresse erstellen: Service zum Erstellen des Basisnamens ist...
