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    Nimi Places

    • Free Personal • Proprietary
    • Windows
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    Alternatives to Nimi PlacesNimi Places info, screenshots & reviews
    Organizes desktop into customizable containers - showing folders (e.g.: local folders, network locations) contents, displayed as icons/thumbnails on scrollable surface. In-built thumbnail engine is capable of displaying thumbnails for supported Open Documents and PSD images, but also for supported PDF files.

    Supported media formats can be quickly: previewed, listened, played using in-built multimedia fronted - with included image viewer supporting custom shaped and circular selection, and in-line playback of audio files.

    Files can be labeled, customly ordered, searched by typing. There are multiple sorting options from by name to by content (that groups into sets of matching similar files).

    Other management features consist of file & folder rules, time & location based settings and more.
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    • Special Folders
    • Configurable
    • Portable
    • File management
    • Group Icons
    • Skinnable

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    IcePirate16812
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    • Negative comment • more than a year ago • 16 users agree • 2 replies
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    While free for non-commercial use, this is not open source software.

    Be sure to read the license!
    3)(d) APPLICATION might COLLECT, UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD and STORE:ANY INFORMATION and THIRD PARTY INFORMATION without confirmation and prior notice.

    This is far too broad for me. I won't use it.

    cubanCword

    Thank you for pointing that out. In today's world that is unacceptable, I get needing ad revenue but that is a red flag

    Reply written more than a year ago

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    R0tten

    Yeah, thanks. I will just block it in windows firewall.

    Reply written 11 months ago

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    sa
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    • Negative comment • more than a year ago • 2 users agree • 0 replies
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    it's very..crappy...and the EULA is horrendous.

    basically:
    install our shite tool and we can steal your computer data in any way we feel necessary!!
    WE'RE ASSHOLES IF WE WANT TO BE ASSHOLES!

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    rojo56551
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    • Positive comment • more than a year ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
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    Stardock Fences would be my favorite icon grouper, but its license activation is unstable and obsessively paranoid. It randomly loses its activation and I have to re-activate. Nimi Places gives me nearly the same functionality without the activation hassles. I just wish Nimi Places could perform its organization without my having to move my stuff into separate folders, for reasons. Still, I'd rather do that than to continue the Stardock activation battles.

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    ar
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    • Negative comment • more than a year ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
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    An hour of my life that I'll never get back trying to make Nimi Places to work. First it crashed, almost immediately. Then it crashed again after reboot. Then I went to un-install and Nimi was nowhere to be found. No uninstall, no shortcut, no desktop icon, nothing in the Start Menu. Not even in Control Panel, nothing. Until I rebooted and there it was, embedded in my system and crashing again. So I bit the bullet and did a manual uninstall, delete from the Programs folder, scrape the registry, etc. But hey THAT'S ALWAYS A BLAST, RIGHT?!?!?! Try not to waste unsuspecting people's time for personal benefit. Knock it off and don't be evil.

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    Th
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    • Negative comment • 9 months ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
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    Crashes on Windows 10, requires uninstalling manually:

    • Ctrl+Shift+Esc > Startup > right-click Nimi Places > Disable
    • Delete these folders
      • C:\Program Files\Nimi Places
      • C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\.Nimi Places
    • WinKey + R > regedit > enter
    • Delete:
      • HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartupApproved\Run\NimiPlaces
      • HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\NimiPlaces

    Then the only places referencing it will be lists of "recently ran applications" or "recently opened files".

    [Edited by TheJaredWilcurt, May 06]

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    Categories

    File Management • OS & Utilities

    Tags

    • desktop-organizer
    • fencing-on-the-desktop
    • organize-desktop
    • desktop-customization

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    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 10 comments and reviews about Nimi Places, and it has gotten 45 likes

    • Developed by Nimi projects
    • Proprietary and Free Personal product.
    • Average rating of 2.8
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