Computers

Oct.07, 2008 in Computers

Dear readers.

The following free programs will increase the performance and usability of your computer.

Enjoy!

Ccleaner - CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It 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. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! Download for Free

Defrag - Cleaning your Registry with a tool such as Eusing Free Registry Cleaner will go a long way toward speeding up your PC–but it won’t go all the way. Even when you clean out the Registry, it may still be bloated. That’s because over time, the Registry becomes defragmented, particularly when you add and remove Registry entries. This free, simple tool defragments the Registry, and gains you a bit of hard disk space. More important, though, is that it speeds up your PC’s access to the Registry by compacting it–and that means a speedier PC.

The program is free, it’s simple to use, and it speeds up your PC…what else could you ask for? Download for Free

Driver Sweeper- You’ve been a good boy or girl, and you regularly update your system’s drivers. In theory, that should keep your system in tip-top shape, and running at peak performance.

But there’s a downside as well: If you don’t properly remove your old drivers, they can cause system instability, slowdowns, hardware woes, and system crashes.

Driver Sweeper to the rescue. This clever little utility does exactly what it says. It sweeps through your system, finds old drivers, then lets you remove them. For safety sake, it backs them up as well, so that you can restore them, if need be. Download for Free

Winpatrol - WinPatrol is an all-purpose utilty designed to increase the performance and usability of your computer.

It’s FREE and has been assisting computer users for over ten years. Download for Free

Easy Duplicate Finder- Easy Duplicate File Finder is a free powerful tool that helps you to find and remove duplicate files on your PC.
How do you think, what hard disk space on your PC is occupied by duplicate files? Easy Duplicate Finder will show you.

Easy Duplicate Finder is a completely FREE Software. It contains absolutely NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE, NO REGISTRATION, NO POPUPS, NO MALWARE or other unwanted software. Download for Free

PC Decrapifier-The PC Decrapifier is a program designed to remove or uninstall a specific list unwanted software in an unattended fashion. It can be used to clean off most of the annoying software that is typically shipped with newer PCs. Download for Free

Foxit Reader - Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size (only 2.55 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

In the past, you’ve had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document. Moreover, if you want to annotate a PDF document, you have to pay US$299 to buy certain software.

Now with Foxit Reader, you don’t have to endure such pain any more. The following is a list of compelling advantages of Foxit Reader:

* Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is only 2.55 M which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size.
* Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
* Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
* Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.

* High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users’ permission. While other PDF readers often silently connect to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware. Download for Free

Avast - Represents a multi-award winning solution to virus protection, with anti-spyware and anti-rootkit software built in for added security. It is available free for non-commercial, home use and with its fast, automatic updates avast! antivirus is already being used by more than 50 million users worldwide to provide continuous protection against all forms of malicious software (malware). Download for Free

Spybot search and distroy- Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven’t intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been “hijacked” (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don’t see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there’s no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer. Download for Free

Secunia PSI - The Secunia PSI is the vulnerability scanner for your personal computer. It is the FREE security tool designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer from software vulnerabilities.

Software vulnerabilities affect all applications installed on your computer, from the Operating System down to your email client, office application, instant messaging, and so on. Download for Free

The article author is not responsible for any damage as a result of using any of above programs.