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Review by COLORADO HERMIT
I chose this from my Vine list mainly for the photo paint shop. I have the Corel Paint Shop Pro XI and liked it in my old Dell Optiplex desk top with Windows XP but it doesn’t want to run right on my new Dell Studio 17 with the Windows Vista. I thought since this was a newer program it would work better than the old one does with Vista. Wrong.
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Review by COLORADO HERMIT
I have the Norton 360 for 2014 since I had the 360 last year. I’ve been having a problem with a browser hijacker for the last several months and I’ve tried several different things to get rid of it. I was hoping the Norton 360 for 2014 would find and fix it but no luck. So I figured I’d install this as extra protection but the Norton 360 won’t let it install and this antivirus won’t install unless I remove the 360.
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Review by COLORADO HERMIT
I’ve used this AVG this year to replace the Norton that I have used for the last several years. The Norton let me down when it let several email virus’s &/or Trojans get into my mail and start sending themselves out to everybody in my address book. This has made everybody in my address book very mad at me!nnThere was one thing that the Norton has over the AVG and that’s the identity storage.
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Review by COLORADO HERMIT
Pretty much the same as Norton 360 2013. There is a couple of things that I don’t like about it. One is the password vault. I cant get it to just fill in the info to sign into my most used web sites without having to enter the vault password first. So what’s the point of having it? The other thing is the reason I got it. I have some sort of browser hijacker in my computer and I cant get rid of it.
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Review by COLORADO HERMIT
I have several photo programs on my computer and several others that I didn’t care for laying around. My favorite, easiest to use and quickest one to use has been the Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10. I also have the Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI and I’ve used it for my more advanced editing.n Now this Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 takes the place of both of them. All the basic editing functions are pretty much intuitive and easy to find and use.
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Review by COLORADO HERMIT
I had tried the DSL for the last year and I just dropped it and went to cable. The one drawback was I lost my free McAfee and Spy Sweeper that came with the MSN DSL. After looking at a lot of the internet security programs out there I decided to try the Kaspersky since it had the highest customer ratings of all of them. Was that ever a mistake!n I downloaded the 1 month free full version of Kaspersky internet security 7.
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Review by COLORADO HERMIT
I thought the McAfee programs were bad about being memory pigs, but I’ve never seen ANY program that can come even close to being as big of a HOG AS THIS ONE! With it just running in the background, and only this,I checked my Windows Task Manager and it was using over 700 MB of memory and had the CPU pegged at 100%.n Yes, my computer is a little old. But its not that bad!
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Review by Colorgirl
It is refreshing to have a game show up in the industry that seems sold out to blood and gore that is purely fun entertainment.nIn the orginal tradition with slightly modern adaptations, the Nancy Drew game STAY TUNED FOR DANGER is easy enough for young inexperienced gamers, but with a challenging level for older gamers wanting more fun.nThe story is fun, the scenery beautiful… P>Great game to give a young lady for a gift.
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Review by Colorgirl
The following review is written under the umbrella idea that CorelDraw Suite is one of the best I have ever used and I can not stand going without it. However, it is not without its frustrations. This version is better than previous versions in many ways. I will attempt to list a few of my frustrations here so if you run into them, you are not surprised. Still the program is worth it and I highly recommend it.
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Review by Colorgirl
I am usually very good at writing reviews, but this product has had me wondering how to begin. There are so many amazing facets to this program that I am not quite sure how to go about addressing this.
There is a variety of ways that I can address this from the person who has never seen Painter before to the person who has used Painter since the days of its origin at Fractal Design before Corel bought it, and even those who use this for high end graphics production in text books, fine art, and gaming illustration.