jv16 PT 2006 beta testers - Thank you!

blackdex

Thx Jouni :).

You have done a real nice job on this version.

Sorry i didn't do more to help, useualy i do.

And as always keepup the good work :).

disptchr

I Beta Tested the product from the beginning of the beta testing period Never had any problems with it so never posted on your web site.

It is a great product and I will purchase it but am disappointed in the way you non-rewarded the Beta Testers !

I downloaded and started testing the program from a link in Fred Langa's, Langalist Plus Newsletter.

redseujac

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oreius

Hehe Lots of problems just slow on the draw.. Bang Bang hit but not dead yet.. :

brotman

Hi,

Here is acopy of the reply I got from JV for my suggestions...........

Please send any liscening info to brotman@nc.rr.com

Chuck Brotman

--- On Tue 03/21, Macecraft Software < info@macecraft.com > wrote:

From: Macecraft Software

To: brotman@excite.com

Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13 +0200

Subject: Re: General feedback from macecraft.com, user Charles Brotman

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback. We will most likely implement your

suggestion in the next major update of the product.

Best Regards,

Jouni Vuorio (Mr.)

Macecraft Software

----- Original Message -----

From:

To:

Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 8 PM

Subject: General feedback from macecraft.com, user Charles Brotman

> Hi,

> I'm a jv16 2006 Beta tester and I have a few comments regarding the

> start menu fixer module:

> My setup has alot of shortcuts (including numerous dulicates, for

> organizational purposes. I find the current User Interface (a yes

> no dialog) for choosing to modify or delete (as apprpriate) to be

> very clumsy for such a setup. I offer some possible ways to

> improve this:

> 1) Make the choosing list or tree based, rather than one-at-a-time

> by a dialog. ( Ontrack/Vcom Fix it utilities works (very nicely)

> this way...)

> Barring that...

> 2) Use color, dialog titling, or other obvious visual cues, to more

> clearly indicate whether

> this dialog is for a chasnge or a delete.

> 3) Add additional action choices such as:

> a) yes to all; no to all; cancel

> or even more specific (and granular)

> b) yes to all changes, of these directories, etc

> c) allow removal of the invalid shortcut from the change dialog

> (this would be useful for cases such as "unwise.exe" and

> readme.txt. which often offer erronious reassignments.

> d) be smarter about the dialog messages -- do some of the work

> for the user, whw=ere possible. Example:

> if offering a change from

> p filesx/y/doit.exe to

> c filesx/y/doit.exe Make it easier to see what's

> changing by vertical allignment as I have attempted here, use of

> higliting/color. eg make the changed item (here, the disk letter)

> stand out or simply say:

> change pointer to "program filesx/y/doit.exe from P: to C:?".

> the more general cases coulds be handled using path factoring.

> That's it for now. If I've sent this to the wrong address, please

> ingform me of the correct one and forward it apprpriately

tullik

Is there a free lunch...?

Common sense says the main criterion is the value of the information to the developer in his debug and product improvement efforts. It is his call.

I have looked at the "complainers" contributions posted in all the relevant forums. Some are a little interesting, most are redundant, and a very few are just irritating (to me anyway). None provided any incremental value that I could see.

Should jv award more free licenses? As I said, it is his call. I think he has been quite generous.

If you didn't make the cut, save your pennies and buy a license.

brentw

A very small contribution on my part.

From : Brent Welch <biwelch@hotmail.com>

Sent : March 6, 2006 9 PM

To : <jouni.vuorio@macecraft.com>

Subject : jv16 RC2 Disk Wiper

When using Disk Wiper to wipe the free space, once you get a Windows warning about "Low Disk Space", the progress bar and amount written stat freezes. The hard drive activity LED on my machine also shows no disk activity, although the tlapsed time continues.

After hitting "ABORT", Windows now reports that I have 4.00KB free space on my D:\ drive, as opposed to the 37.3GB that I had prior to using Disk Wiper.

thomaslamb

Jouni:

I examined my "saved emails sent folder" submitted to Macecraft for JV16 Power Tools 2006 Beta testing results and I found 2 specific messages.

From : Thomas Lamb <thomaslamb1@hotmail.com>

Sent : Monday, February 20, 2006 9 PM

To : jouni.vuorio@macecraft.com

Subject : JV16 Power Tools 2006 Beta Testing

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I have been trying out the new Registry Compactor feature on the latest version of JV16 Power Tools 2006 Beta today and I am getting several errors in the process.

I have not used the Registry Cleanser on this beta version yet so the BACKUPS folder is empty.

Error Number 1: Failed while compacting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE

Before size = 29184.00KB; After size = 28848.00 KB

Error Number 2: Failed while compacting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM

Before size = 5376.00 KB; After size = 5248.00 KB

Error Number 3: Failed while compacting HKEY_USERS\S-5-21-3128759765-1589047663- 974308345-1007

(does the above reflect a registry key?)

Before size = 5888.00 KB; After size = 5716.00 KB

System Configuration:

Dell XPS GEN5

Intel Pentium D 3.0 Mhz

2G Ram

500G HD

Windows XP Pro

WIN XP SP2

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Thomas Lamb <thomaslamb1@hotmail.com>

Sent : Monday, March 27, 2006 8 AM

To : jouni.vuorio@macecraft.com

Subject : JV16 Power Tools 2006 RC5 Beta Testing

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Per your email request dated 03/24/2006 I uninstalled the "RC4" version of JV16 Power Tools by performing the following:

(1) Uninstalled JV16 Power Tools 2006 RC4 by clicking on the JV16 Power Tools 2006 "Uninstall" startup shortcut.

(2) Deleted all the folders and files associated with C:/Program Files/jv16 power tools 2006 to the Recycle Bin.

(3) Installed jv16 Power Tools 2006 RC5 by clicking on link:

http://www.macecraft.com/downloads/betas/pt2006/jv16pt_setup_rc5.exe

and performed the download.

I have done some testing over the past several days but when I attempted to run the utility program today (03/27/2006) I received the following error message:

"Your trial period has ended. Please, visit http://www.macecraft.com if you wish to purchase a license and continue to use this product. Contact Support@macecraft.com if you have already purchased a license."

I am also getting the "License Tool" Window popping up with the error message:

"No valid license file found".

Have I lost some critical file or (Registry Key entry?) which contains license data for this beta version of JV16 Power Tools 2006? I have been assisting in the testing since you first offered the 2006 version earlier this year.

My other thought is that maybe JV16 Power Tools 2006 RC5 is somehow accessing the license data for JV16Power Tools 2005 which is also on my computer. Does the JV16 Power Tool 2005 and JV16 Power Tools 2006 utility programs have same name .DAT files in folders or subfolders outisde of the "Program Files" main folder?

In the interim I will attempt to uninstall JV16Power Tools 2006 RC5 and then re-install via the above mentioned link to your Download web site.

Your recommendations, please.

Thank you,

Tom Lamb

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I also may have sent you an email expressing my concerns about the Registry Compactor feature when I received a message indicating that all the Registry Hives had compacted successfuly (already 100% compacted). I could not find this email in my "saved emails sent" folder). But when I ran a competitor's Registry Compactor utility program immediately thereafter, it showed that the registry would be then compacted by over 33.33% according their own compaction rules. I did not permit the actual compaction take place. I very seldom have a compaction result exceeding 1 - 2% max. In the above scenario I immediately restored the registry to its status immediately before the JV16 Powere Tool 2006 compactor run. I then re-ran the competitor's Registry Compactor utility and the result was then in the normal range of 1%.

guizop

Hi,

I sent a report about memory access violation at shutdown:

http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=824&highlight=

and a feature request about keeping the oldest file in case duplicate files are found.

Best regards,

tony

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lashiec

Err... by some chance, is anyone of the new posters a reader of the "Tech Support Alert" Newsletter?

redseujac

Well well well

Reading al those posts of guys now writing their first posts to get a free license, I am pretty well disgusted

Never heard of them till now, yet the betatesting period was long and hard enough and what have they done?

They should be really ashamed : : : : :

If I were Jouni, I'd close this topic (thread) ... It really hurts me to have to read all this nonsense :

Hey JV, could you please stop this!!!

brotman

Tony, et. al.,

Though I am not one of those who is "posting his first post just to get a license" . I would like to point out that your (and others') comnplaints about the latest set of posts are as unecessary as ithey are unbecoming!

Like some others who have pasrticipated in this Beta test I did some of my communicating via email. In any case I received an email from Macecraft stating that the Beta test was over and to send reminders to JV if our names were not on a specific list and felt we had participated. In my case I simply copied a note I had recieved from JV in response to my feedback which stated:

------------

" Thank you for your feedback. We will most likely implement your

suggestion in the next major update of the product.

Best Regards,

Jouni Vuorio (Mr.)

Macecraft Software"

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No doubt several of you have made more significant contributions than I have (and perhaps more than others like me who responded top JVs request for evidence of participation. I think whether our participation warrants a free license should be up to the author, not the members of the beta team, easpecially as not all correspndence went through the forum. To argue otherwise is to doubt JVs ability to judge what was useful and is a waste of bandwidth.

I can understand your frustration at what you see as new "pretenders". coming in at the last moment, but let's leave it up to JV...

Regards,

Chuck Broitman

mochi

I replied with emails in February and March. Here is my first reply:

"Hello,

I may have found one small bug. I couldn't reproduce it and I don't

believe it is "critical". After cleaning the registry, I exited out

of the program. I reentered the program and attempted to clean the

registry again. There was one entry showing:

"hkey_local_machine/temp_xxxx" The xxxx represents a number I cannot

remember. I checked for the error using regedit and was unable to

find anything like it. I exited the program without fixing or

removing the false error. Again, I started JV 16 RC2 and I ran the

registry cleaner and it showed no errors this time. As I said

earlier, I can't reproduce the same result using the same steps so it

must be just a fluke. Anyway, I thought you might like to know.

p.s. thanks for your outstanding programs."

My reply in March was a simple - I can't find anything that doesn't work correctly.

Thanks for your consideration

fraser

Hello Jouni,

I sent by e-mail a comprehensive report on my experiences with attachments showing results and highlighted a number of bugs.

I sent this on 1 March using my registered e-mail. :(

redseujac

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mkairys

I do not wish to sound either impatient or ungrateful, but I emailed my request for a license three days ago and have not as yet received it. (My name is on the list.)

I see the request to avoid the use of comcast email accounts because of their spam filtering, but that is the only address I have; and I am quite careful about checking my filters...

jwwickstrom

I tested this early, and only wrote once, but I kept testing. I had to fix the registry myself after the following description of what happened. I was generous in what I wrote:

Using Registry Cleaner

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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 5 pm Post subject: Using Registry Cleaner

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When using the registry cleaner, I had to use "Normal" first, otherwise program would stop responding.

After running a "Normal" scan, Advanced worked, but with quite a few glitches-results finally presented and all OK after I checked the registry myself.

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I believe I should get a free license for my troubles in testing this product.

Thanks for listening.

John.

jv16

MKairys wrote
I do not wish to sound either impatient or ungrateful, but I emailed my request for a license three days ago and have not as yet received it. (My name is on the list.)

I see the request to avoid the use of comcast email accounts because of their spam filtering, but that is the only address I have; and I am quite careful about checking my filters...

The first free licenses will be sent out today, rest will be sent out in next week.

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