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Archive: Vista

Enhance My Vista download and EulaAlyzer

1-12-08 Free Software I have tripped over on The Net

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EnhanceMyVista 1.2

http://seriousbit.com/

EnhanceMyVista is an easy to use yet advanced enhancing, optimizing
and tweaking tool for Windows Vista.

With a clean and simple interface it brings you an All-in-One set of
powerful and neatly classified tools, settings and tweaks.

As a bonus there are some unique and uncommon options too. Being
permanently in development it is the best choice in it’s category.
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EULAlyzer 1.2

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/eulalyzer.html

License agreements - a pain?

End user license agreements (EULAs) are the bane of most computer users.
No one wants to read through pages and pages of boring text before
installing a program. And many programs put their license agreements
in small windows that require lots of scrolling. So many people either
skim them or skip reading them altogether.

But it can be dangerous not to read license agreements.
License agreements can provide information about the intentions of
software, and other bundled components. Have you ever installed a
program, only to have your desktop taken over by advertising? It may
have been noted in the license agreement that you simply clicked past.
If you aren’t reading the license agreements, you have no idea what
you could be agreeing to.

You should always read license agreements before agreeing to them.
But now there’s a way of making that much easier.

EULAlyzer - Making it all easy

EULAlyzer can analyze license agreements in seconds, and provide a
detailed listing of potentially interesting words and phrases.
Discover if the software you’re about to install displays pop-up ads,
transmits personally identifiable information, uses unique identifiers
to track you, or much much more.

The Benefits

* Discover potentially hidden behavior about the software you’re
going to install
* Pick up on things you missed when reading license agreements
* Keep a saved database of the license agreements you view
* Instant results - super-fast analysis in just a second

And with additional features like the EULA Research Center, which
optionally allows users to anonymously submit license agreements they
scan to help us to further improve the program, everyone can be a part
of the effort to make something that used to be so tedious, so easy.
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