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There are many excellent resources available to improve your PC performance and further protect your PC.
All these products are open source and free to use.
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CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and
privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to
run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.
www.ccleaner.com |
Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently
than with any other browser.
Tabbed Browsing - View more than one web page in a single window with
this time saving feature.
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
NB Some websites are not compliant and (sometimes specify) they only work
with IE - another good alternative is to use Avant for tabbed web browsing
(its and addon to IE)
Try Avant
Browser, the top rated multi-window browser in Internet, which adds a batch
of features and functionalities to Internet Explorer. Avant Browser is the
fastest web browser on Earth. Its user-friendly interface brings a new level
of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades
have steadily improved its reliability.
http://www.avantbrowser.com/
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The
Netcraft Toolbar is available for
both Internet Explorer and Firefox, and serves as a giant neighborhood watch
scheme for the Internet, in which members who encounter a phishing fraud can
act to defend the larger community of users against the attack. Once the
first recipients of a phishing mail have reported the target URL, it is
blocked for toolbar users who subsequently access the URL and widely
disseminated attacks simply mean that the phishing attack will be reported
and blocked sooner.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/
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Tautology Bandwidth Meter
Tautology Bandwidth Meter measures the total amount of data across a
computer network interface. If that interface is connected to a broad band
adapter then the amount of traffic is approximately the same as the internet
usage for that computer.
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/link/tbm/
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The
Belarc Advisor
builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing
Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status,
CIS (Center for
Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser.
All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not
sent to any web server.
Operating Systems: Runs on Windows 95/98/Me, NT 4,
Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003.
Browsers: Requires IE 3 or Netscape 3, and higher
versions. Also runs on Opera, Mozilla, and Firefox.
File size: 945 KB.
License: The license associated with this product
allows for free personal use only. Use on multiple PCs in a corporate,
educational, military or government installation is prohibited. See the
license agreement for details.
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What is the speed of your Internet connection?
http://www.abeltronica.com/velocimetro/pt/?idioma=uk&newlang=uk
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Find Information Faster: Organize Your Computer - A very
useful Microsoft site Published: September 27, 2005
http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/manageinfo/computerclean.mspx
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Fast
Easily search your entire hard drive in less than a second to
pinpoint the right file, email, music or pictures.
Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) brings the power of a
sophisticated, yet easy-to-use search engine right to your PC and allows you
instantly to search files, emails, and email attachments stored anywhere on
your PC hard drive. It executes sub-second searching of Microsoft Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, and all popular music, picture
and video formats. CDS also conducts a desktop search of your browser
history, favorites, and contacts.
Find Your Files and Emails with the Power
of a Search Engine Right on Your Desktop
Size:
3.0 MB
Download time: Approx. 6 minutes on a 56K modem
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DigiGuide, the best TV guide
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