I've been in IT for over 30 years, many of them using MS products. I have an IQ of around 140. It took me five minutes to get into the stupid, fiddly plastic packaging. Absolutely appalling design - unless it was designed as a MENSA puzzle!
Then I tried to activate the full key having been using a 60 day free trial key. That in itself is an adventure. The instructions provided were useless. The instructions on the internet were useless but I got there in the end.
The product itself is fine and great value but they don't half make you work for it. 0/10 for packaging, 0/10 for activation instructions, 8/10 for the product.
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I've been in IT for over 30 years, many of them using MS products. I have an IQ of around 140. It took me five minutes to get into the stupid, fiddly plastic packaging. Absolutely appalling design - unless it was designed as a MENSA puzzle!
Then I tried to activate the full key having been using a 60 day free trial key. That in itself is an adventure. The instructions provided were useless. The instructions on the internet were useless but I got there in the end.
The product itself is fine and great value but they don't half make you work for it. 0/10 for packaging, 0/10 for activation instructions, 8/10 for the product.
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I've been in IT for over 30 years, many of them using MS products. I have an IQ of around 140. It took me five minutes to get into the stupid, fiddly plastic packaging. Absolutely appalling design - unless it was designed as a MENSA puzzle!
Then I tried to activate the full key having been using a 60 day free trial key. That in itself is an adventure. The instructions provided were useless. The instructions on the internet were useless but I got there in the end.
The product itself is fine and great value but they don't half make you work for it. 0/10 for packaging, 0/10 for activation instructions, 8/10 for the product.
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Dear Hopeful Buyer,
I cannot beginning to express how disappointed I am with the this product.
I am not one who would usually write a review, but my disbelief at the poor customer service, pushed me to warn as many as I could.
For starters, this product is really overpriced, considering how little it actually does.
Even after doing a full PC scan and successfully detecting 2 Trojans and one bit of malware, there was no action taken to remove it. Nor was it quarantined.What then is the point?
I might as well have open the window and throw my money outside.
I then call the customer service and was informed that I would have to pay a £1 a min, to even speak to techinal support.This is crazy , nobody should ... Read More:
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Having a house full of PC's of varying ages and a mac. I am loathed to buy
more licenses as I already have older pc and a mac version of office.
Get "Open Office - 3" virtually free and run on any machine and save files as microsft versions .doc .ppt etc and vice versa.
I am thinking of stripping vista off my childs new lap top and going over to a linux version and avoid the other rip off that is microsoft security software
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Paint Shop Pro came to my attention after receiving the latest version of TurboCAD v15 Pro which I use extensively for work purposes, the idea being to import drawings for production into finished presentable artwork. I decided to try the programme out first with Corel's free monthly trial and I'm glad I did - I found the programme to be annoying from the start. The first thing to happen was a long wait on start-up whilst it 'raided' all my photo files and converted them to run in PSP. OK, so perhaps that is to be expected. BUT-
I deal daily with customers who I visit and need to show them information from my laptop, including photos of equipment. Having waited for the computer to load up initially, on selection of a photo I them had to wait further for the ... Read More:
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this caused massive problems for us when installing it on a 4 system mini network (4 PC's) and on a laptop - see my full review on upgrade 5 users version. Treat with caution. Its caused us lots of stress
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Unfortunately, despite this being a potentially fine piece of software it is ridiculously unstable. My latop is very powerful and was bought specifically for photo editing, yet with Vista 64 the program constantly crashes (around every 10 minutes) then requires a full refresh of thumbnails before it is useable again. This can take several times with a few thousand photographs, therefore taking hours for a single edit!
Come on Adobe, get this sorted!
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I would give this product 5 stars but it came free with Sky broadband and i got a nasty hijacker virus in 3 days of installing and switching broadband on. I've now discovered that Sky didnt check which computer i had and i was supposed to download the software from Mcafee's website which was compatable with Windows Vista.
PROS: The security suite is very good.
It's perfect for people like me who know very little about computers
It's perfect for people like me who know very little about viruses
You can set up a scheduled daily or weekly scan
It detected and deleted 2 Trojans
It's inexpensive
CONS: The customer service/tech support should be a free phone number
The tech support is average
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I've had this a couple of weeks now, and at first it felt a bit strange as the buttons are slightly further apart from normal MS optical mice that I use, but actually when I use it, I don't notice. It works very well and I would happily recommend it.
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