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Thank you for your reply. I don’t understand quite well your explanation with diskmgmt.msc “to assign the entire other partition to an empty SoftOrbits folder”. And “making that folder point to the new partition”. How do you “point” ? Junction, subst ?.
Have a nice Sunday.
Robertmake sure NO softorbits software is running, rename existing Softorbits folder in AppData\Roaming\ folder to Softorbits1 for future use. Then you create an empty folder called SoftOrbits in your logged in users AppData\Roaming\ folder and then go to diskmgmt.msc I usually go there from right click on This PC Manage console. and chose the target partition you want the softorbits programs to end up on and Right click on it in the disk management console and select “Change Drive Letter and paths…” CLick Add button and then choose “Mount in the following empty NTFS folder:” then press Browse button and navigate to “C:\Users\[yourlogin]\AppData\Roaming\Softoribits” and after you have done all that you can now navigate to the other drive/prirtition via opening the previously empty SoftOrbits folder… now for protection against the folder being deleted by faulty uninstallers right click on the SoftOrbits folder and select Properties and then the Security Tab, then click Edit button and in new window type Everyone into the input box and press “Check Names” button and the OK button… now you will have an Everyone user Group added in the top panel, select that entry and then in the Permissions for everyone panel put a tick in the deny write to hopefully deny future uninstallers the right to delete the folder when you uninstall a softorbits program which is highly likely as they’re not very good programs! final step is to copy the contents of the Softorbits1 folder into the contents of the new Softorbits folder and continue as usual. You will find future SoftOrbits installs will be placed on the other drive/partition and the installer won’t know any difference.
[@Bart Dill] Thank you so much for your kind words and for taking the time to write this, I really appreciate it.
I understand the appeal of a lifetime license, but I won’t be offering one for AFKSecurity. As a security tool, it needs continuous work: regular updates, new protections, and professional-grade testing. The subscription is what keeps it improving over time, and it’s also why most security software works this way.
That said, I regularly run discounts on my website, including on the annual plan, which brings the cost down nicely compared to paying monthly. Checking the site from time to time is the best way to catch one.
Thanks again, and I hope you and your friends enjoy AFKSecurity!
Crap software, does not uninstall fully after trial, leaves processes running. Had to perform a system restore just to get rid of it.
I was thinking about buying it, now I am not gonna even touch it.[@Ed] Thank you for taking the time to write this, and I’m sorry it cost you a system restore. That should never happen.
I reproduced the problem and found two faults on my side. On Windows 11, Smart App Control could block AFKSecurity’s own uninstaller because part of it was not signed, so the uninstall stopped halfway. And the AFKSecurity window in the notification area was not closed during uninstall, which left a process behind. Both are fixed in the next version: every part of the installer and uninstaller is now signed, and uninstalling closes the window and waits for the protection service to stop completely.
If anything from AFKSecurity is still on your computer, a restart removes what is left, and I’m happy to help directly at [email protected].
Crap software, does not uninstall fully after trial, leaves processes running. Had to perform a system restore just to get rid of it.
I was thinking about buying it, now I am not gonna even touch it.This is the fun of installing untested straight out of the compiler software released as commercial software without even private ALPHA testing the basics let alone private beta and then announced public beta testing and finally public release candidate testing before a single penny is asked for the software. Some developers just believe they kow better than tried and trusted development paradigms.
fair point, and I won’t pretend otherwise.
AFKSecurity is a young product, made by a single developer.
It isn’t for lack of method. Every build goes through 807 automated tests, plus simulated attacks and normal-use scenarios, and there have been 11 releases in five weeks. What I lack is a large pool of testers with different machines, and some problems, like Ed’s, only show up on real PCs I don’t have access to. That’s exactly why every report gets fixed as fast as possible: Ed’s issue was patched within days.
I also answer every message myself. If anyone runs into a problem, uninstallation included, write to [email protected] and I’ll help personally.
And there’s a free trial with no payment details, so anyone can judge it on their own machine before spending a cent. If you’d like to help as a tester, you’d be genuinely welcome.
fair point, and I won’t pretend otherwise.
AFKSecurity is a young product, made by a single developer.
It isn’t for lack of method. Every build goes through 807 automated tests, plus simulated attacks and normal-use scenarios, and there have been 11 releases in five weeks. What I lack is a large pool of testers with different machines, and some problems, like Ed’s, only show up on real PCs I don’t have access to. That’s exactly why every report gets fixed as fast as possible: Ed’s issue was patched within days.
I also answer every message myself. If anyone runs into a problem, uninstallation included, write to [email protected] and I’ll help personally.
And there’s a free trial with no payment details, so anyone can judge it on their own machine before spending a cent. If you’d like to help as a tester, you’d be genuinely welcome.
But it is not fair to not announce UPFRONT that this is a PUBLIC BETA TEST PHASE AND BUG FIXES FOR REPORTED PROBLEMS WILL BE REPUBLISHED AS PART OF THE GIVEAWAY! So that inexperienced users that don’t know how to use SC command to cleanly remove all traces of the service from the registry and not just force a delete of the executable at reboot and leave an orphaned service registry details that errors out silently with file not found on each reboot. 807 tests does NOT cover everything.
Peoples machines can end up in messes during unannounced beta phases and they are not suitable for enthusiastic novices!
I believe your other program has a serious uninstaller problem in that does it remove the downloaded during use AI Inference models for the offline languages? If not things are getting insane with uninstallers leaving potentially 4 or 5 gigbytes of orphan AI inferences by default in the users AppData\Roaming subfolders. Most conventional installers auto-generate the uninstal script from the install script and ignore anything the main program and auto installing services do during runtime… in todays are with main programs downloading gigabytes of dynamic data in the form of AI inferences or other databases these NEED to be cleaned up on uninstall and conventional auto-generated uninstallers WILL NOT deal with it and auto-installing services may seem like a novel solution to deploying a service but it prevents clean uninstallation by the auto-generated uninstaller so is BAD programming practice. When I tested this I knew I was probably alpha/beta testing this so manually installed it by following the install script manually but putting it where I wanted and manually removing the service using SC command line as I knew due to the way the service auto-installed itself on the fly that it would have to be manually sc delete’d.
It’s good that you are actively participating in this giveaway but since you are using the giveaway as an extremely valuable part of your development process it would be stupid if you didn’t participate and make full use of us. I used to get paid reasonably good money for a small software house to internally beta test their software’ you are getting potentially hundreds of testers for free. But you should have posted with the description a warning and disclaimer that this is a public beta to release candidate exercise.
[@TK] Hello Tk,
Thank you for the detailed technical breakdown, TK. You’ve raised a very fair point regarding the Windows service cleanup, and I appreciate you bringing it to my attention.
For AFKSecurity, you are completely right about the dynamic service registration: the uninstaller was indeed missing the proper routine to cleanly unregister it from the registry. I am fixing this Fast so that it performs a clean removal without leaving orphaned service entries.
For the Other Software AFKLiveTranslate V1, This is not an unannounced beta, but a legacy, concluded project. It is no longer supported, maintained, or available for download/purchase on my website. SharewareOnSale specifically requested to run a giveaway for this specific V1 archive while V2 is being developed. As noted explicitly and transparently on the giveaway page, this legacy version is provided strictly “as-is” with no support or future updates planned.
Thank you again for the rigorous feedback.
