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Recusant said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Recusant said:

I don't know how many times i've tried, and given up with ZoneAlarm. Every now and then a version is released that crashes my PC (it has issues with other software i may be using). So i've switched permanently to Comodo :)

Curious. I've never had a problem with Zone Alarm.

It just has random conflicts with random programs. I can't remember the sordid history with other apps, but most recently it wouldn't play with uTorrent. I changed the firewall and no more system freezes. Oh, it also usually rates poorly here: www.matousec.com

Hey Recusant this is another good source of review / test material Comparatives||tests - reviews - reports just dig around in the list at the left of the page ie Proactive tests etc

All links for Driver Sweeper have been diverted to Treexy Driver Fusion, including the link on the first page.

Does anyone have any information on Driver Fusion?
Is it any good?

Thank you Dave. Driver Sweeper removed from list.

I cannot find any reference to it but I was told of a search app that I have since tried and it beats anything else I have used for looking for bits and pieces.

https://www.jam-software.de/customer...pkhqk6r35nf8f7

http://www.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/

Thank you John. UltraSearch added. :)

ICit2lol said:

I cannot find any reference to it but I was told of a search app that I have since tried and it beats anything else I have used for looking for bits and pieces.

https://www.jam-software.de/customer...pkhqk6r35nf8f7

UltraSearch - Freeware fr die ultra-schnelle Dateisuche

I had 1.5 on my system. But I was only using it occasionally. Updated to 1.61 when I saw it used MFT instead of indexing. I don't know why but when minimized to tray, Shift Backspace seems to work as hotkey in addition to whatever is selected in options.

This is a really nice little utility.

edit: seems to be not smooth on shutdown or logoff when Minimize To Tray is enabled. Also may interfere with MagicJack when "autocheck new drives" is enabled. I would really like it if those rough spots were sanded down. Nice simple interface. :)

edit2: I noticed I added an entry to my general-purpose tray hotkey script to open UltraSearch in response to Shift Backspace. The weird behavior may be do to my script and not an UltraSearch bug. If I find out more I'll edit here. Don't mean to blame the software. With these hotkey things it's easy to forget when you add one. :)

Many thanks, Brink, for this invaluable information.

Hum now I have seen Dariks mentioned but not the others - haven't had a look yet so can't say if any good.

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