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anhamgrimmar said:
www.ccleaner.com/
clears out a hell of a lot of crud of your pc. took 1.9gb of temporary files that i didnt know i had, and gets rid.
pooter still works as well
Thumbs up for this - I'm pretty tight on keeping my PC lean and mean, but this found nearly a gig of junk!
Jonna_Rex said:
Jonna_Rex said:
How can I really get free off these spyware/adware on my comp for no charge????????
Download the trial version of Spysweeper
and also run Adaware
There are some more of these types of programs but the above two are the best in each of there fields.
I was alarmed that my pc has been infected by spyware and now even after cleaning it still pops that alarm window up. Also messed up my internet homepage url and says just about:blank now.Not able to change it??
you should be able to easily change your homepage url, about:blank is just a default for those who don't want a homepage, though some programs try to change it to their own. Just goto a tools>settings in most webbrowsers, should be round there somewhere.
Jonna_Rex said:
Also messed up my internet homepage url and says just about:blank now.Not able to change it??
I think 'Cool Web Search' changes your homepage to about:blank. Neither ad-aware or MS-Antispyware can get rid of it permenantly in its current form, but if you google for CWShredder that should sort it. If not I think you'l need your own thread
Not freeware, but I just found this liitle gadget on the web.
TerraTec USB key TV tuner
Looks a bit expensive, but capable of picking up most free digital stations (in the area) and able to record to hard drive.
TerraTec USB key TV tuner
Looks a bit expensive, but capable of picking up most free digital stations (in the area) and able to record to hard drive.
Klite codec pack -
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror
Azureus Bittorrent client - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Lots of ftp and web server stuff
www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/
Noise reduction for digital images
www.neatimage.com/index.html?37
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror
Azureus Bittorrent client - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Lots of ftp and web server stuff
www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/
Noise reduction for digital images
www.neatimage.com/index.html?37
cuneus said:
Klite codec pack -
<a href="http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirrorhttp://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror</a>
That ROCKS
>> Edited by hornet on Tuesday 1st November 01:41
And a good find for when your codecs are stuffed, or you can't find the right one, or media player absolutely refuses to use the right codec - VLC media player.
www.videolan.org/vlc/
www.videolan.org/vlc/
For those of you that use the Firefox (or Mozilla) browser, the spellbound spelling checker extension is great for spell checking your posts to PH. It can spell check and correct any typing in all text areas and input areas in HTML forms using an option in the context menu or button on the toolbar.
I've been playing local web filtering proxies of late. Mostly Privoxy. There's also Proxomitron which does the same sort of thing but is more tweakable.
I'll admit that I don't know exactly what I'm doing, but they seem useful for stripping out ads, banners and nasties as well as doing a few other things. You can link them to Tor if you're a really paranoid surfer...
I'll admit that I don't know exactly what I'm doing, but they seem useful for stripping out ads, banners and nasties as well as doing a few other things. You can link them to Tor if you're a really paranoid surfer...
Try
www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
A free PDF reader similar to Adobe but not as resource hungry and starts quickly
www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
A free PDF reader similar to Adobe but not as resource hungry and starts quickly
Won't help most people but....
For project planning, I sometimes use Open Workbench (www.openworkbench.org/), which is open source, and will do most of the stuff that M$ Project will do.
For project planning, I sometimes use Open Workbench (www.openworkbench.org/), which is open source, and will do most of the stuff that M$ Project will do.
I thought I'd add my bit!
If you want a total mobile phone management tool (mainly for Sony Ericsson's), try this bit of kit!
http://fma.sourceforge.net/
FloAt's Mobile Agent
Brilliant piece of kit allows you to work your mobile from your PC using Bluetooth or IrDA.
If you want a total mobile phone management tool (mainly for Sony Ericsson's), try this bit of kit!
http://fma.sourceforge.net/
FloAt's Mobile Agent
Brilliant piece of kit allows you to work your mobile from your PC using Bluetooth or IrDA.
Just been playing with this,
www.autopatcher.com
You install it to a network folder, and it runs on new boxes without installation. Patches them up to date hands-off, optionaly installs things like sun java, flash player, .net.
Seems quite good.
www.autopatcher.com
You install it to a network folder, and it runs on new boxes without installation. Patches them up to date hands-off, optionaly installs things like sun java, flash player, .net.
Seems quite good.
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