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Given an Amazon review, indicate whether it is a 'Positive Review' or 'Negative Review'.
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I have dropped my kindle a bunch of times and it hasn't broken yet. Although I lost the pen in two days....
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Positive Review

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Nice case for my ipad mini, I have tested this case a few times already, I drop my Ipad mini like 2-3 times and this case protect my ipad mini from breaking.
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Positive Review

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The product itself works but the software can make you hate this company to the guts. They are [Amazon Censorship]:mentally-challenged software-wise. In order to understand why I must describe my setup so you appropriately know if it can affect you.<br /><br />My setup:<br /><br />-Main PC (you must select a \\"main\\" PC): Asus P5E motherboard running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit edition, overall a high-end PC.<br />-Secondary PC: HP EliteBook 8560w running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit edition; also a high-end PC.<br />-Main PC's user account: Let's call it John, which is a domain account in my home domain (yes, I use Active Directory at home). Username John doesn't have administrative rights at all. It is an account belonging to the BUILTIN\Users group. This is awesome to avoid destructive viruses.<br />-Secondary PC's user account: Let's call it Work, from my office's domain. It has admin rights to the PC but User Account Control is On. But this part is really irrelevant. I just mentioned it for completeness.<br /><br />How this device works:<br /><br />This USB device is actually several devices in one. After you plug it in, Windows 7 will search for and install drivers for 5 different USB devices. It took a bit of time, but not too much. After these are done, a new virtual drive is added to your PC. Look it up because you must run the EasyLink.exe file contained in it. A stock Windows 7 PC would have shown the Autorun dialog box, but that's just the vanilla Windows 7 configuration. The instructions pamphlet doesn't take into account any other possibility. If your PC has Autorun disabled, you must browse for the file yourself. Not a biggie for many users, but other users may find this misleading and obscure.<br /><br />Anyway, you have to run this EasyLink.exe file. But this is exactly where the nightmare begins. You see, this file requires administrative privileges to work properly, or at least that's what it seems because it just won't run by double-clicking it. To behonest, I am not very sure because the [Amazon Censorship]:mentally-challenged software engineers working in the software department of StarTech digitally signed the executable and then altered it, rendering the digital signature invalid. I actually suspect that Windows is refusing to run it because of this fact, and I was only able to circumvent it by right-clicking EasyLink.exe and selecting \\"Run as administrator\\". At this point I am warned that the certificate is invalid, but I am allowed to enter credentials. So I have this OTHER user account from my home domain that does have admin rights. I typed that account in and the (in)famous EasyLink.exe finally runs. It is only at this point that I can proceed with the other part of the installation, which is done in the secondary PC.<br /><br />The story in the Secondary PC is the same: Plug in the other end of the cable, wait for the USB drivers to install, then run EasyLink.exe. Again, I must elevate the process because it either requires admin rights, or is the only way Windows 7 will run it because of the damaged digital signature.<br /><br />At this point I know this will be trouble after a restart, so after watching in awe for 1 minute how easy and SUPER NICE it was to use this thing (after the digital signature odyssey), I proceed to restart both PC's.<br /><br />WAIT! New problem: My main PC refuses to reboot. It turns out that this device confuses the ASUS P5E motherboard's BIOS to the point where the BIOS just won't POST and the PC won't boot. Nice. One more thing to do: If I restart the PC, I must disconnect this USB thing, wait for BIOS to POST, then connect. Granted: Asus hardware is a [Amazon Censorship]:worthless piece of equipment with non-existent customer support, but still it is quite unbelievable to me that it generates such interference.<br /><br />Anyway, after discovering the problem, I was able to reboot the main PC. When it logs back in, the EasyLink.exe software is nowhere to be found. Again,Windows has refused to launch it because of the broken digital signature, or at least I think this is the problem.<br /><br />The rest of my odyssey revolves around trying to make EasyLink.exe to run automatically somehow. Summary of attempts:<br /><br />- A Windows task run as SYSTEM or LOCAL SERVICE on session logon. No go.<br />- A Windows task using SysInternals' psexec tool. No go.<br />- Second best: Autorun of EasyLink.exe in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run with creation and addition of an application manifest for automatic elevation of rights. Completely futile.<br /><br />Ok, so I just abandon all hope to make this work. At this point I know I'll just have to start EasyLink.exe manually every time I log in my PC.<br /><br />And you, avid reader, probably think all is over now, right? Well, no. This product assures it can transfer files from one PC to the other by either using the clipboard or dragging. It did not work for me at all. I am thinking it may be because of security issues between the user running the EasyLink.exe program and the file in question. But that's just my guess. In short: It doesn't work.<br /><br />But wait! Let me throw in the cherry on top: The software only takes into consideration the main monitor screen of the PC's. My secondary PC uses a second monitor. Well, with this thing the secondary monitor is useless. StarTech's software is so simple-minded that it doesn't conceive the fact that a PC may be using more than one monitor. Therefore when you use this thing when you have two monitors in the secondary PC, you can kiss your second monitor goodbye because the StarTech software will refuse to let the mouse leave the main monitor area. Nice, I know. And what infuriates me the most is that I discovered all this in one afternoon. It's like StarTech never QA'd this product at all.<br /><br />So in summary: StarTech has GREAT hardware engineers and complete [Amazon Censorship]:mentally-challenged software engineers programming their software. I tried to give this a two-star rating because seeing this thing working is just awesome, but I just can't. Not after testing multi-monitor support.<br /><br />The switch between PC's just by moving the mouse to the configured screen edge is SUPERB, which I think is the merit of the HARDWARE engineer(s) at StarTech, but let me be clear: THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT WORKED. The core functionality. The extra goodies were left out in my case.<br /><br />Would I recommend? Tough one. The actual product with better software may be amazing. I don't know how good this company is when it comes to software updates, and I think that would be the key to answering such question. So I'll just say this: If StarTech can patch their horrible, horrible software, yes, this is an amazing product I would completely recommend. I'll contact them and update.
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Negative Review