Ipswitch WS_FTP Home 12.2

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• Price: Free to try (30-day trial) $34.95 to buy
• Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7
• Date added: March 04, 2010
• Total Downloads: 12,907,911
• Downloads last week: 2,667
• Product Ranking: #4 in FTP Software
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• CNET editors' rating: 5.0 stars
• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 86 votes
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  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Ipswitch WS_FTP Home 12.2

  "Absolutely amateur product, hard to register/ uninstall"

  by zemonn on August 7, 2010

  Pros: May work well for someone.

  Cons: 1 - After install it throws an error
  2 - Needs serial number that is difficult to try and chase down
  3 - Upon uninstall it deletes EVERYTHING that is located in the same program group (in your start menu) as the program.

  Summary: Poorly written product for a "professional" effort. The install progresses from inconvenient -> frustrating -> infuriating. The trial option could not have been more convoluted and registering on the web site (as instructed), does not actually provide a serial number for trial.
  
  Unbelievable that they simply delete all links in the program group as opposed to actually KEEPING TRACK OF WHAT THE PROGRAMMERS ADDED!! I recommend avoiding this one...nothing but trouble for me. Now to go rebuild my Start Menu.

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Ipswitch WS_FTP Home 12.2

  "Great-used to upload website pages & it does that great"

  by KellyDon on August 4, 2010

  Pros: Fast, Easy to install, easy to use.

  Cons: I have found none.

  Summary: I like it. I would recommend it to friends.
  Fast, Easy to use, Easy to install.
  All I use it for is uploading my website pages to my website and it does that great.

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• 1 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Ipswitch WS_FTP Home 12.2

  "No free trial on Vista"

  by giuliocc on June 10, 2010

  Pros: Dunno, couldn't run it after install

  Cons: Asks you to buy a license. Not clear if i just need to register in order to do trial or i need to hand over cash. End result. FAIL

  Summary: Trial does not start on Vista. FAIL

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• 5 stars

  Version: Ipswitch WS_FTP Home 12.2

  "great file transfer utility & it works with Win 7."

  by bdurstenfeld on April 24, 2010

  Pros: Nice user interface, Lets you see both the source and target locations.

  Cons: none to speak of

  Summary: works great, remembers site passwords

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• 5 stars

  Version: Ipswitch WS_FTP Home 12.2

  "The Industry Standard"

  by retrodata on March 25, 2010

  Pros: This free version has everything you need to move files easily from your hard drive to your remote server.
  Stay Alive feature is perfect.
  easy GUI

  Cons: none found.

  Summary: IPswitch has been the industry standard in FTP software for over 10 years. There is no other free FTP program that even comes close to the functionality of IPswitch's free edition FTP program.

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• 4 stars

  Version: Ipswitch WS_FTP Home 12.2

  "I've used it for years, great product"

  by b_miller on March 13, 2010

  Pros: uncomplicated, easy to use, works great - in the past I've had problems with inexplicable logon failures, but haven't seen that for months

  Cons: there is no longer a Refresh View in the new release, something I used a lot

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