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NOT pre-activated,
NO activation license,
The program teases “Activate now for a special price”.
If you try to activate it, they demand the “special” price of $50.
Their web site promises that prices start at $24 — if you do NOT go through this SoftwareOnSale tease.
This is ancient in PC-age terms, being a program not updated since 2017-09-21.
The program window and info says FREE version.
The program screen says PRO version.
The free trial version promises Staganos is 7 days.
Did they THINK what they are “giving away” is a free trail version for … longer than 7 days, perhaps?
But this is not even a TRIAL version, since so much of it does NOT work at all.
This software can’t perform the following of it’s own features:
CAN’T Smart Update
— CAN’T delete Internet History ( this is a Smart Update feature ?!? )
— CAN’T shred deleted files ( this is a Smart Update feature ?!? )
— CAN’T update drivers
— CAN’T software update
— CAN’T recover deleted files
— CAN’T uninstall wizard ( this is a Smart Update feature ?!? )
CAN’T Smart Turbo
— CAN’T Optimize Startup
— CAN’T Internet Tuning
— CAN’T defragment drives
— CAN’T optimize Windows services
— CAN’T optimize Windows settings
— CAN’T delete Windows font cache
— CAN’T delete Windows thumbnails
— CAN’T show items to be cleaned from the registry, CAN’T toggle invisible items on or off to be cleaned
— CAN’T defrag the registry
I imagine SOS approached Steganos and asked if they have anything they’d like to promote, and Steganos said, “sure, take this year-old sleeper and give it away” and casually walked away from even checking if they were offering anything of value, a sore and sorry behavior here on the part of Steganos, who COULD have generated goodwill here, and instead has sullied their name by carelessly throwing trash at us as if we are less then worthless to them, throwing disposable software at a market segment that they apparently consider disposable.
If Steganos cannot make this right, then perhaps Steganos ought to be eliminated from SOS marketplace in the future.
I’m just saying.
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