Lately, every time you turn around Microsoft seems to be releasing or rechristening a Web service with the Windows Live moniker. To date, seeing how all of these Windows Live tools work together has been difficult, but in the new Windows Live Toolbar 3 for Internet Explorer 6 we finally get an inkling of...
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Spyware Terminator delivers, absolutely free, comprehensive anti-spyware with anti-virus protection. “The best things in life are free.” Now that saying applies to the ultimate in real-time anti-spyware and anti-virus protection. Spyware Terminator, from Crawler, gives users the peace of mind that pesky spyware programs can be stopped at the gate and disabled before they...
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Hard drive performance is one of the major bottlenecks in today’s PCs: The drives just can’t feed data fast enough to system memory. And matters only get worse if a hard drive is severely fragmented. Windows ships with a basic utility to combat the problem of disk fragmentation, but power users need something more...
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If you’re the type of user who never likes to shut down or restart your machine, PGWare’s SuperRAM 5 may become one of your favorite applications. This tiny program optimizes a system by freeing wasted memory that crashed, closed, or otherwise disabled applications or services didn’t properly release. You can run SuperRAM 5 as...
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Zappit System Cleaner is a useful freeware application that’s designed to quickly and safely clean the extraneous bits of data that tend to bog down a Windows-based system over time. Zappit scans the host system’s hard drive and Registry and eliminates unnecessary files and keys to free up hard drive space, streamlining the OS....
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SiSoftware’s SANDRA (System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) has been a benchmarking staple among enthusiasts and analysts for a number of years. But this suite of mini-applications includes a number of other useful tools, as well. With the latest version of the suite, Sandra 2007 SP1, users can not only benchmark and test their...
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