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Winaso's terrible service

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As good as Dell was with their customer service, Winaso is bad. Dell offered support for a problem when I didn’t even go to to them for help and when the problem wasn’t their fault. Winaso won’t even respond to support requests from a paying customer.

My grandfather was a computing pioneer. He was one of HP’s early employees. He started building electronic calculators and moved on to writing software. He’s been having a problem with his computer where it reboots when he attempts to print anything from Outlook Express. His hardware tests fine, and he can’t find a solution for the problem, so he works around it.

Then he finds the exact same behavior when he’s using a windows system utility from Winaso. It’s scanning his system and in the exact same place each scan, his computer spontaneously reboots. So he sent them an email and asked what could be done.

After a few weeks, he heard nothing and asked again. A few weeks later, still nothing and he asked again. Still nothing. So I told him to forward his next message to them to me. At least we can warn people not to buy their products.

It’s possible this is a problem they can’t solve. After all, Microsoft support has no idea why Outlook would cause a computer to reboot. But he’s a paying customer—the least that Winaso could do is reply and tell him they don’t have a solution.

Gentlemen: This is the fourth time I’ve sent you a request for help for the same problem. You have not answered my previous requests and since I have paid for the Winaso program, I expect to at least hear from you about this problem.

A copy of the last email (number three) is shown below:

Gentlemen: I’m running WIN XP and IE6.0.

Winaso License Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have e-mailed you about my problem twice and have not received a reply. I need to get this resolved.

When I’m in Outlook Express (6.0) and press the print icon or file/print keys, my computer reboots. I can print from the web, Microsoft Office, photo pgms, etc.

When I run Winaso Clean Registry the search will continue through each section until I get to either "Invalid ActiveX" or "Invalid Files Path". The program starts searching, the screen goes black, and the computer reboots. If I bypass these two sections I get a "No Errors" found.

Is there a way to isolate the file or files that cause your program to abort and reboot. Please help me solve this problem.

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