Well, I got the StartKey, and it really sucks
StartKey is MojoPac?
The website I downloaded it from said it was startkey, but then the installer was called 'MojoPac Installer'. I thought maybe it was like an InstallShield Wizard thing, but called MojoPac. Well, when I ran the program, it identified itself as MojoPac, not StartKey, so IDK WTF is wrong with the name.
Experience
When I first found out about StartKey, it sounded really cool. Their website was all flashy (literally) and it had a nice animation. So I downloaded it, and tried to install it at home. All went well until I ran it for the first time. I had to register on their website. But I have no internet at home, so it freaked out and told me I needed internet to install it.
So I took my drive to school and tried to run it, and get the registration part over with at school. Well, bad idea. It turns out that I needed administrative rights to run it.
Seriously?
So I had to go to the library, and I finally got around to registering and trying it out. It sucks. I tried to run it at the library (which uses a filter, by the way) and it worked. I thought, hmmm, since it keeps its settings on the drive, maybe it also uses a different setting to connect to the internet.
And well, usually when I start IE from the library PC, it asks to enter a username and password. This time though, when I ran it, it didn't. I was like 'whoa!, this might come in handy' so I tried to go to google.com and it loaded. But then IE crashed. I tried again. The homepage came up, then I go to google and it crashed.
Wow.
So I decided to take some screenshots and talk about my experience.
Images look ugly
Well, they do. I personally like flashy stuff (like PAM and Vista and stuff like that). I don't know if its my color settings or what, but all the images were pixel-y or weird or something. They're not all nice and smooth like PA's or just about every other decent program online. Thumbs down on that.
Final Rating
I give it a 3 out of 5 because it does what it says its supposed to do. I didn't make it higher because it ain't really portable (it requires admin rights to install/run) and its ugly.
Screenshot
I know your all eager to see them, so here they are:
This is what it looks like on startup.
This is what your computer will look like when you "switch to host" Although you can hide the bar.
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StartKey was nothing like that. Microsoft wouldn't have taken MojoPac and used that - they were working on their own infinitely superior thing which would require a patch to the local machine. And as far as I can tell, the status of StartKey is still entirely unknown - generally believed abandoned. There's been no news about it this year at all. What was this thing that you got? Whatever it was, it wasn't StartKey.
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That's not startkey. That's just Mojopac, which is basically discontinued and doesn't work on Vista, Windows 7 or XP x64. From what I've heard in the industry, Startkey is dead. But don't quote me on that.
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It is definitely Mojopac (old version), the latest being Mojopac Pro 2.0. And don't waste time on this crap, no support and no contact (I paid for 2 licenses and now they are "dead", move to more expensive V-Desk which is very similar to VMware Thinapps)
I googled "StartKey" and I read about it, and it said "go to the StartKey homepage" or something. So I clicked on it and it took me to what I stupidly thought was StartKey.
Ah well. It was fun to try it.