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Member since June 8, 2004

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    Dean Stacey

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  1. Review - SIGuardian

    1.7.323 Beta (Nov 29, 2004)

    Why even get this? HDD Health (www.pantersoft.com) is free for non-commercial use.

    Unfortunately, none of the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring tools appear to support external USB 2.0 hard drives, which is a disappointment, I have several.

  2. Review - Hide Folders XP

    2.0 RC (Oct 20, 2004)

    It's obvious the people knocking this program have never used it. What this program does is give you an interface to easily designate the folders you want hidden and options to allow you to hide and unide all of them with a simple hot-key press, enter a password before allowing unhide etc. For instance, on boot, all of my designated folders are hidden, I press Ctrl-Shift-U and all are instantly unhidden once I enter a password. I press Ctrl-Shift-H and all of my designated folders are instantly hidden again. Yes, you can hide folders with NTFS, but this makes it a hell of a lot easier. It's like the difference between using Tweak-XP to tweak XP or going in and hacking the registry manually, which would you rather do? I've been using this program for a number of years, it's fairly frequently updated with bug fixes and new options free to exiting users (seems to be about every 4 months or so), and I can honestly say I feel this program is worth what I paid for it considering the use I've gotten out of it. It just works and works very well.