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1. Steve Watkins    

   VP, Secretary at Inspiria Holdings, Inc. | over 2 years ago
   PowerDesk Pro 9 - a Sad Farewell

   I've used PowerDesk from version 6 to version 9, in Windows XP to Vista to 7, 8, 8.1, and 10. With each platform migration, it was harder and harder to install PD. I finally bought a new package to go along with my Windows 11 Professional desktop. Unfortunately, the software not only doesn't work, but the technical support people are not native English speakers. Between extraordinarily thick Indian, Eastern European, and allegedly French Canadian accents, I LITERALLY had to bring in a translator. At the end of it all, they couldn't install PD, because it's not coded for Windows 11.

   AND, based on their almost fanatical insistence on my "trying technical support" (three times) and refusal to graciously offer to refund my purchase price, I'm having to escalate this into a Collection Event with my bank getting involved.

   Thus, Avanquest has lost me as a customer, despite their once unquestionably-superior program. Their product's (former) greatness has been drastically exceeded by their p**s-poor customer service.

   👎 Cons:    Extraordinarily-poor customer service|Failure to say that powerdesk 9 doesn't work under windows 11|Technical support is a joke

Winfile mentions (8)

• RIP, WordPad

  > Plenty of open source apps are abandoned. The maintainers get tired, too busy, or whatever. Other people can pick up the baton. For example my window manager of choice is Window Maker which was abandoned for literally years (fortunately since the underlying tech doesn't change every other month, it still kept working) before someone else it picked it up and nowadays there are a few developers working on it. > If... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• [Windows 10/11] [S Files Pro X] [$14.99 -> $0] [Dual Pane File Manager with Colorful Themes]

  There's always winfile lol. I wish they'd drop the 95 era file explorer source. That was the best one imo. Source: 12 months ago

• How to split your models among several drives in Windows 10

  The ancient winfile (that get revived by microsoft), ctrl+shift drag to make symlink. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there a better file manager than Explorer that I can download?

  Joke comment: WinFile if you do not have Windows 11 22H2. Source: over 1 year ago

• file manager/windows explorer

  Good old Windows File Manager from the early 90s! In the Microsoft Store or github https://github.com/microsoft/winfile. Source: over 1 year ago

Avanquest Powerdesk Pro 9 mentions (0)