It’s always nice to work with software that you know. It means you don’t have to relearn how to use an application and, over time, productivity will increase. It was this mindset that has always made me reluctant to swap from my old faithful file sharing application – Ares Lite to something more modern like Ares Ultra or Ares Ultimate.

I picked up Ares Lite back in the day when it was doing an excellent job of providing a resource-friendly version of bigger brother Ares Galaxy. It was clear of spyware too, which made it very popular around the web; interestingly thought the misconception that the ‘Lite’ version of Ares Lite was used because it was the only version that wasn’t packaged with spyware was patently untrue.

There were a lot of versions of Ares that were and are packaged with spyware, Ares Destiny being packaged with Dealio being a well known case in point, and that put a lot of people off. Ares Lite was not the only clean version though.

These days there are plenty of spyware-free Ares implementations that are well worth a look. I eventually went with Ares Vista (which plays very nicely indeed with my Windows Vista installation) and this is just one of the great filesharing programs that are available.

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