'owdy Grif,
I was simply curious about your recommendation on this utility the other day when I had plenty of 'nothing to do', so decided to give my system a check - Win98FE, MSIE v5.01SP2 w/oodles of memory and hard drive space, and connecting with Cable.
Can't say I was impressed in the least.
1. I let it run for approximately an hour where it reached just about 62,000 files and it wasn't half way through the drive. With Cable, that thing is slow and I'm glad I didn't have to use DUN.
3. It found several of my test files I have on the system for virus, which it found and added the extension of .vir to the end of the current name.
4. I use PCMag utility Inctrl5 to monitor changes when I let anything install on the system. I found, Added 207 registry keys and 221 registry values; Values changed: 55; quite a few files and folders were added which included many from the TIF, so I'll not state the number here since I didn't want to weed those non-applicable out.
2. Deleted the following key which IMHO this utility had no business fooling with:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AP\PFE\001\Configurations\DefaultConfiguration\MruList "10"
Type: REG_SZ
Data: "D:\Viewer\PLUGINS.TXT",0,6161,3a79699e,0,0,447,822,1,0
Note: "HouseCalls" comparison was 48 Registry entries and about twice that for values, with 27 files added. We understand many of these utilities do this -- some just worse than others.