Looks like Ashampoo WinOptimizer 8 will be free for everyone Dec. 19th

FWIW- betanews is giving out free keys to Ashampoo WinOptimizer 8 on December 19th. The time for the 24 hour giveaway will be from 00.00 to 23.59 (Central European Time) on Monday, December 19.

http://betanews.com/2011/12/14/happy-holidays-ashampoo-winoptimizer-8-is-our-gift-to-you/

 

Dont forget not to use a primary email address or they will shampoo you to death.

 

Ashampoo WinOptimizer is an excellent product. I am waiting eagerly to get my hands on it.

Thanks for the heads-up.

 

@acr1965, thanks for your message!
I'll get this on monday.

 

haahah

although they improved their unsubscribe mechanism as they have not sent me any emails past couple months

 

Is Ashampoo WinOptimizer 8
better than TuneUp Utilities?

 

Good to no treehouse.thanks

 

That would probably depend who you ask. I think Ashampoo OEM's their product while TuneUp Utilities' is an in house development. Either, way, IMO I'd stay away from anything deleting, compacting or otherwise editing the registry unless something is obviously acting up with the computer. Even then I just use certain products to mess with the registry. I didn't like TuneUp running in the background all the time, not sure if Ashampoo does the same thing or not. But overall I think Ashampoo's product is pretty decent.

 

this

tuneup 2008 was last good version in my opinion.

i have tested quite a few suites and the best by a country mile was auslogics boostspeed

 

I'm get spams daily from Ashampoo.

 

LOL Not only will they hammer you with email, they will also provide pop-ups on your desktop. I have Snap 4 and had to set the firewall to stop it from phoning home and serving up ads.

 

That sounds about right.Watch out pretty soon they might send a rep to find where you live and start to ring the door bell.You might have to go in the witness to spam protection program.

 

I think the only issue I have had with Ashampoo is that whenever I download a new product of theirs the spam emails start again until I go to my online account settings and request they stop. After that I have had no problems. As for the pop up ads, I've seen some "update available" or "upgrade available" that appear at the program's start up in its splash screen. There's an option to not show them again which has always worked for me. But I normally just opt out of everything, service messages, etc from the beginning and have no pop ups afterwords.

 

This promo is now live. Here's the download page-
http://giveaway.downloadcrew.com/

 

I got mine, and installed...

 

Got mine installed it and then removed it.Just dont like it or need it,but it was worth a try though.

 

Thanks Tarnak, Reverted to Opera and managed to get the key
Now to see how long it stays on my computer
regards Worgeordie

 

Just make sure you uncheck the various options under "settings" > "basic functions" > "service channel" > "configure". Otherwise, as djohn mentioned earlier, you will shampooed to death.

 

I'm already pretty careful about who I'll open the door for LOL Regarding my earlier comment about pop-ups on the desktop I only recently noticed that notifications can be turned off in the Service Channel section of the GUI, so not so bad. By the way Ashampoo has a holiday special going at the moment - 70% off using coupon code christmas11

 

This is the funniest comment I've read today.