How to evaluate more than once

[JohnFredC]

I am constantly on the lookout for better file managers and evaluate new products continuously,  often encountering a tools that havw promise but aren't yet "ready".  Every six months or so, I like to re-evaluate the promising tools in the hopes that they have addressed the areas that were deficient in my original evaluations.  Sometimes that re-evaluation results in a buy.  (I have a policy in my shop of paying for all software that I use regularly.)

For instance, I am primarily a TotalCommander (owner/)user who re-evaluated Servant Salamander for several years until it finally got to the point where I could say: I need this tool!  So I bought it and use it daily for the purpose I was waiting support for.

My point in this post is re-evaluation.  I contributed a few bug reports to the original 2Xplorer and used it for a while. When Xplorer2 Pro appeared I tried it with great interest, knowing it would be very fast and have useful features.  However, I didn't buy at that time because of several things that were either missing or not implemented the way I was accustomed to using them.  That was probably a year ago or so.

During the time since I originally evaluated Xplorer2 there apparently have been many enhancements, some of which are on my original list of deficiencies.

Unfortunately, I cannot "try out" the latest version of Xplorer2 because my original (and long since un-installed) "trial has expired".

As a software marketing plan, this doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't every software developer want me to try out their software again?  Maybe I'll like it and buy it this time around!

I know Xplorer2 is inexpensive... less than a meal at the local Outback Steakhouse.  But somehow or other it just doesn't seem right that I should have to pay to evaluate, so I haven't.

Not trying to get something for nothing here, but I am a potential customer, after all, and there are many competitors to Xplorer2.  A 1-day "re-" trial of new versions would be more than sufficient.  Who knows, such a re-evaluation policy might just generate additional sales!

[fgagnon]

If you have a machine on which you have not previously 'evaluated' x2, using it would be your quickest option, as nikos is away this week.
Failing that, send nikos a PM, and I'm sure he will be able to fix you up.

[JohnFredC]

Hi fgagnon

Thanks for responding.

There is no urgency for me to evaluate Xplorer2 immediately.  I was just offering what I considered a reasonable reaction to my inability to evaluate the latest version.  Xplorer2 is not the only software that is problematic to re-evaluate.

Cheers!

[nikos]

i may open v1.2 for re-evaluation
the problem is that with each such "opening" your PC gradually gets more clutter in the form of marks x2 leaves behind to track earlier installations