WinUtilities Professional Edition giveaway has been canceled – no more free updates
August 15, 2010 33
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For the past 6 months dotTech has been running a WinUtilities Professional Edition giveaway, allowing dotTechies to grab WinUtilities Professional Edition for free. Recently, because of a disagreement between dotTech and YL Computing (the developer of WinUtilities), YL Computing has canceled the WinUtilities Professional Edition giveaway and dotTechies will no longer receive free updates. If you have WinUtilities Professional Edition currently installed using dotTech’s registration information do not update the program or else it will revert to the trial version.
Furthermore, it seems like YL Computing has also canceled the giveaway with other sources like Softpedia, so you can’t grab it from there anymore either.
Update: I got a hold of WinUtilities Professional Edition 9.81 installer (the latest version that works with dotTech registration code); I uploaded it so dotTechies that want WinUtilities Professional Edition can use it (dotTech’s registration information works on it). Download it from http://dottech.org/downloads/WinUtilitiesPro_9.81_dotTech.org_Giveaway.exe. After installation, right-click on the system tray icon, go to “Settings…” and uncheck “Automatically check for updates”.
For those that feel the sting of no longer receiving free WinUtilities Professional Edition, dotTech has featured many system utilities freebies (Glary Utilities Pro [now expired], WinOptimizer 6, TuneUp Utilities 2008, jv16 PowerTools 2009 [v1.9.0.590], Advanced SystemCare Pro) that one can use and there is WinUtilities Free Edition that is always available for free. Plus, I am currently trying to get dotTechies some lucrative system utilities for free, so stay tuned.
I apologize for any inconvenience!
@Everyone: To be completely fair, YL Computing wasn’t really being “dishonest” with their dealings with dotTech… they just didn’t agree with me on a point and that lead to the end of our cooperation. No malice there, although I would have appreciated an easier way to get a hold of v9.81 (I got lucky Softonic still had it). I am just saying this so people don’t get the wrong idea about them… that wouldn’t be honest on my part.
@Ashraf good that you found it, better that people download from you then from me ;)
For those fearing their key won’t work anymore…as long as you keep (or reinstall) 9.81 your key will work
I wouldn’t blame or hold grudges against YL Computing. They were generous enough to offer this freebie for such a long time. I especially appreciate their quality product, and we should all be thankful for them and Ashraf no matter what happened.
@Ashraf: Thanks for finding 9.81 for us and making it so easily available.
I’m going to miss WinUtil. I was just thinking that I might go ahead and buy the thing when it last updated to 9.81. I’ve been using it since I joined up here and thought I might go to the website and see if it was reasonable. I never use an “automatic” or “one-click” anything and WinUtil made it easy to avoid that module. Oh well. I might still consider buying a future version someday if they ever want to play nice with dotTech again.
This might be a good time to mention that almost all of the utility programs I’ve seen don’t perform any better than the native window functions and many of them are just calling the windows api from a pretty gui.
CMD.exe is so much better than the old command.com that a few simple batch files can do most of what they can do. You just don’t get the pretty buttons to click on. :-)
Hey Ashraf!!
How about the GIVEAWAOFTHEDAY version of this program?? Do you know if users can upgrade to v 9.82 without losing the GAOTD license referring to the previous version?
Not sure why my comment was deleted. It was not profane, it simply was a praise to Ashraf for bringing us quality software for free.
Never mind Ashraf I feel like a complete idiot, I commented on the other original post and didnt realize it (smacks self in the face and repeats)