Apowersoft Photo Viewer [crapware]

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Apowersoft Photo Viewer [crapware]

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[Based on this thread, I am recommending against any and all Apowersoft tools or software.]

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Synopsis: photo viewer and basic editor with some nice extras not found elsewhere, but some obvious misses as well.

Neat stuff:

* Lots of options for numbered items 123, ABC, abc, rounded, circle, and various transparency levels (this is really great)
* Highlighter pen

Missing bits:

* Speed bubble doesn't automatically include a text prompt (have to add it separately)
* CTRL+Z to undo
* Easy upload to image hosting services like Imgur
* Batch operations
* Image editor is really just an addendum tool for screenshots, which makes sense as the same company sells a program called Screen Capture Pro

Status: not at all portable. Writes settings all over the place, automatically sets itself as the default graphics viewer.

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Re: Apowersoft Photo Viewer

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webfork wrote: Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:59 pmStatus: not at all portable. Writes settings all over the place, automatically sets itself as the default graphics viewer.
Glad you took one for the team and not me :p

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Re: Apowersoft Photo Viewer

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Specular wrote: Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:23 am
webfork wrote: Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:59 pmStatus: not at all portable. Writes settings all over the place, automatically sets itself as the default graphics viewer.
Glad you took one for the team and not me :p
lol ... yeah if I had more free time I'd have a testing rig setup with Sandboxie or similar program to auto-dump all changes on program exit. As it stands, I have to do a lot of manual cleanup and I cycle out my Windows install ~1 / yr.

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