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fishead · Feb 09, 2005

I did see my expiration date, it was 2013... too many people sitting around trying to figure out ways to screw people out of a buck. And how do you like the new ads, gigantic and self collapsing after you are totally annoyed and don't know weather to scroll up or down.

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

I sure can't explain what SFTP did to you but the guy does have a forum where you can post your questions.

https://www.smartftp.com/forums/

And sometimes you even get an answer. LOL I'm joking he always gives an answer. As far as I can see you should be entitled to updates until 2013. Might you have installed the update into a different folder from the original one? I got an update recently and was not asked for a registration number. The version I have right now is 4.0.1234.0

Ads? You mean the ones found all over the Net on just about every page you open???! The worst ones are the ones that cover most of the page and have no X to shut them down, you have to wait until they disappear on their own. I hate them! How can they think they will sell you something by being so obnoxious?

violent1

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

Yes all over the web. I just saw one, I was checking a site and before I even read one sentence an ad popped up covering most of the page and was taking too long to load so I just left. How stupid, I bet they they drive half their traffic away. Our local paper is one of the worst sites with huge ads that interfere with your visit and the pages all take forever to load.

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

I really didn't check out win7, other than a few minutes when I had it on. It was so basic, it didn't have much in it, unlike vista which is loaded with crap. I used youtube videos to help me make it run faster, there is a lot you can turn off from starting up. I don't know how much win7 has but if it is as fast as I thought there isn't the need to shut things off. One thing I always hated about vista is the shadow copy, every time you move a big file it makes a shadow copy. Imagine how good that works with large video folders.... it can crash a pc so bad it has to have a sys recovery.

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Well Win7 isn't exactly a bed of roses it seems. I started getting some show stopper errors on bootup about a program not starting and that Windows encountered a problem with a program and would notify me when a solution was found. And when I clicked on any icon it said Windows Explore had shut down and needs to be restarted, everything was soooooo slow. I looked for a solution on line, seems a lot of people were experiencing this same type problem, and found a lot of solutions none of which worked for me nor most any of the posters.

I finally realized AVG was no longer in system tray and couldn't be launched. I uninstalled AVG and everything was back to perfect! Everything worked and boot up was super fast. Then I started getting a notice from Windows that I needed to have a virus scanner installed and running. Among their offerings was Avast! so I chose that having had it before and liked it. It downloaded started installing, it got almost to the very end of the progress bar, stopped in it's tracks and then said the Avast update couldn't complete, the program would close and that's just what it did. Got a note saying Window encountered a problem with the program and Window would let me know when there was solution. So far I haven't heard from Windows. LOL

It still wants me to install a virus scanner and I'm sure that warning will be there until I do but since it appears there is no way to install a virus scanner I can't comply. Everything on the PC works great except it won't install a virus scanner for some reason. I'm sure there is a setting somewhere that's causing this but I don't have a clue.

dontknow

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

Well thanks for letting me know, maybe I won't install it. I read where there were quite a few problems with it. I checked your problem and saw where others have the same problem and they are using 64 bit. I didn't see any resolution to fix it. So windows is still selling a broken os.