03-10-2004, 04:07 PM
Guys! how are you.
I will be sending periodic reviews of good software that are handy for nerds and tech-phobic alike. I hope this would atleast liven up this almost quite technology forum.
Being tired of the popups/viruses/trojans/spyware in your computer. You must know the cost of data as we always see how many times there is system/data corruption, wasting valuable time.
As accountants of the new millenium we should embrace technology. So here is a list of some useful freeware/steps that keep your system clean and up and running.
1. WINDOWS UPDATE For those of you who have the facility of fast internet connection, this site is a must visit atleast once a month, preferably weekly. Others may do it once a month if they can afford to keep their internet running overnight )
www.windowsupdate.com
2.GOOGLE TOOLBAR A nice program with very effective popup killer. Its not very fancy but very effective. You can also do websearches directly from the toolbar.
toolbar.google.com
3. SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY If you have made a mistake of visting those ..... sites or just clicking banner ads, you would see dialers and other software in your PC, that sometime set your homepage to a website. These are harmful and can/do send private information to their respective servers. This software keeps your system clean of those nasty spyware. Once a week run would do the job.
www.safer-networking.org
4. AVAST ANTIVIRUS It is a good antivirus which is free as well. You need to get registered to obtain the key. It comes with free one year updates. Do a full scan once a week and enable auto updates.
www.avast.com
5. DISK CLEANUP windows has a nice utility called disk cleanup. Use it atleast once a month to delete temp files and internet cache. You can also clean i-cache from IE tools->internet option.
6. DEFRAG There is a general misconception that defrag kills your hard disk. DEFRAG keeps your disk clutter-free and ensures faster access times. Do it once a month. For those of you having windows Me, 98 or 95, run defrag in safe mode as it would speed up the process dramatically. For 2000, NT and XP, defrag works fine in normal mode.
7. TUNEUP UTILITIES 2003 Though its a 30day trial version, its a very effective tool to clean up your system's registry, hard disk etc. Especially when you have done lots of reinstalls and uninstalls.
http//www.tune-up.com/
Edited by - CBPian on Mar 10 2004 111032 AM
I will be sending periodic reviews of good software that are handy for nerds and tech-phobic alike. I hope this would atleast liven up this almost quite technology forum.
Being tired of the popups/viruses/trojans/spyware in your computer. You must know the cost of data as we always see how many times there is system/data corruption, wasting valuable time.
As accountants of the new millenium we should embrace technology. So here is a list of some useful freeware/steps that keep your system clean and up and running.
1. WINDOWS UPDATE For those of you who have the facility of fast internet connection, this site is a must visit atleast once a month, preferably weekly. Others may do it once a month if they can afford to keep their internet running overnight )
www.windowsupdate.com
2.GOOGLE TOOLBAR A nice program with very effective popup killer. Its not very fancy but very effective. You can also do websearches directly from the toolbar.
toolbar.google.com
3. SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY If you have made a mistake of visting those ..... sites or just clicking banner ads, you would see dialers and other software in your PC, that sometime set your homepage to a website. These are harmful and can/do send private information to their respective servers. This software keeps your system clean of those nasty spyware. Once a week run would do the job.
www.safer-networking.org
4. AVAST ANTIVIRUS It is a good antivirus which is free as well. You need to get registered to obtain the key. It comes with free one year updates. Do a full scan once a week and enable auto updates.
www.avast.com
5. DISK CLEANUP windows has a nice utility called disk cleanup. Use it atleast once a month to delete temp files and internet cache. You can also clean i-cache from IE tools->internet option.
6. DEFRAG There is a general misconception that defrag kills your hard disk. DEFRAG keeps your disk clutter-free and ensures faster access times. Do it once a month. For those of you having windows Me, 98 or 95, run defrag in safe mode as it would speed up the process dramatically. For 2000, NT and XP, defrag works fine in normal mode.
7. TUNEUP UTILITIES 2003 Though its a 30day trial version, its a very effective tool to clean up your system's registry, hard disk etc. Especially when you have done lots of reinstalls and uninstalls.
http//www.tune-up.com/
Edited by - CBPian on Mar 10 2004 111032 AM