Also see these threads:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=164704 and
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...18#post1535518.
Lightworks is far more powerful, but for simple edits these products (particularly VideoPad) are good and much simpler to learn. So, it depends how serious your editing is going to be and how much time you want to invest into learning a program.