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COMPUTER MAINTENANCE
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| Diskeeper 7.0 Home |
http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp
Free Trial / $29.95 to buy |
Automatic defrag designed for home-computing needs to keep non-networked PCs healthy and running at top speed. I bought this software |
| Acronis True Image Home 10.0 (latest is v 11.0) |
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/
Free Trial / $39.99 to buy |
Creats an exact copy of your PC for a full backup or backups only your important data. After a few failures with Vista backup (restore) I bought this software. |
| WinUtilities 5.27 |
http://www.ylcomputing.com/content/view/12/31/
Free Trial / $39.99 to buy |
A collection of tools to optimize and speedup your system performance. Contains utilities to clean registry, temporary files on your disks, erase your application and internet browser history, cache and cookies. A PCMag pick in their most recent magazine. I have downloaded the trial. |
| TuneUp Utilities 2007 |
http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities
Free Trial / $39.99 to buy |
Same functions as WinUtilities. I used this utility with XP and but never reloaded after changing my OS to Vista |
| Ccleaner v 2.01.507 |
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Free |
A freeware system optimization/privacy tool that removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history |
| MSCONFIG |
http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
Free with Windows OS |
Stop unnecessary startup programs. Disable all, but the anti virus software and firewall at boot up. No other program really needs to start up at boot, which takes resources and slows things down. Provides a procedure that will provide a faster boot up and eliminate wasting memory on programs that are not in use at this time. |
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YOUR PC/SYSTEM INFORMATION
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| Belarc Advisor Version 7.2 |
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
Free |
This is by far the most widely used utility to show basic information about your machine, including CPU frequency and memory settings. Builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing hotfixes, anti-virus status and displays the results in your web browser. |
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EMAIL
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| MailWasher Pro Version 5.3 |
http://www.firetrust.com/
Free Trial / $37.00 to buy |
Stops unwanted email from getting to your computer. I've owned this software for years. The updates have been free up to now. |
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SPYWARE
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| Ad-Aware 2007 |
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
Free |
Removes advertising robots including malicious spyware and malware |
| Spybot Search and Destroy |
http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
Free |
Removes advertising robots including malicious spyware and malware |
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FUN
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| Solsuite Solitaire 2007 |
http://www.solsuite.com/
Free Trial / $19.95 to buy |
Collection of 476 solitaire games. All the favorite games are here: Spider, Klondike, FreeCell, Pyramid, Golf, Busy Aces, Canfield, Forty Thieves, Four Seasons, Carpet, Flower Garden, Rouge et Noir, Monte Carlo; along with original solitaires |
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