It seems like every blog has a “top 10 list”, so of course I had to do better – a top 12 list! This list is near & dear to me since most of my Clients are senior citizens and on fixed incomes. You don’t have to be retired to take advantage of all these freebies. So here we go…
- Best FREEWARE Antivirus – AVG Antivirus – provides a high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust. Easy to use and will not slow your system down.
- Second Best FREEWARE Antivirus – Avast Antivirus – quickly scans your computer for viruses, worms, and Trojan horses.
- Best FREEWARE Firewall application – Comodo Personal Firewall Pro (yes it’s free) secures your system against internal attacks such as Trojan viruses, malicious software and external attacks by hackers.
- Best FREEWARE System Maintenance Cleaner – cCleaner (crap cleaner) quickly clean-up junk files and invalid Registry entries. (click here or the title above to read full article)
August 15th, 2008
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Has your computer frozen up? Are you frustrated trying to play games? Well the problem is usually related to all the “background programs” running on your system that you’re probably not even aware of.
I keep telling folks to get a FREE copy of “End-It-All 2″. It’s a handy dandy little utility that shuts down all running programs except the ones absolutely required to keep Windows running, and any others that you elect to exempt or lockdown from the shutdown process. You don’t even have to install it — just click on it and then “kill all”. It takes only a few seconds to run it and you don’t have to go through all the hassles of rebooting into safe mode, etc. I also use it whenever I’m installing any new software and when using burning software to burn a CD/DVD or doing any drive maintenance and defragging.
EndItAll 2 is also an ultra powerful Windows process killer than attempts to rid your system of those files that have either frozen your system or simply refuse to budge. However, unlike the Windows very basic “process manager”, it also indicates what program each process relates to which prevents you from shutting down anything essential. This is the real beauty of this free utility.
However, the program will not close everything – it will stop short of closing anything essential anyway so it’s really idiot proof. The interface is really simple and it certainly looks a lot better than Windows own Process Manager. If you need to suddenly free up some RAM, it’s a much better option and vastly more powerful.
July 19th, 2008
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