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Speed up and secure your PC

Started by dhilipkumar, May 28, 2009, 10:23 AM

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Speed up and secure your PC

These easy tips will help you clear your system of clutter, improve its performance, and keep it free from malware and other security threats.

Clean up Windows with file-sorting software
Effort: Minimal
Cost: Free


You really have to get serious about organizing your PC. Let's start with your browser's download folder.
For Firefox users, the Automatic Save Folder extension is a free add-on that automatically saves downloads into user-specified folders based on file extension or on the site the file came from.

Wipe an old hard drive via Boot and Nuke
Effort: Moderate
Cost: Free

before you sell your old PC or return a bum hard drive, keep one important fact in mind: Deleting files doesn't guarantee they're gone for good. To clean your hard drive properly,
Once DBAN is done with your disk, you can be sure the data is gone.


Use KidRex and KidZui to protect your children online
Effort: Moderate
Cost: Free

Search site KidRex, for example, employs both Google SafeSearch and its own database of inappropriate content and keywords to keep things clean. Free Web browser KidZui, in contrast, is a complete kid-oriented browser, engaging children with a fun interface and protecting them with all sorts of built-in safeguards.

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Manage media on any device


Convert your tapes and records to digital
Effort: High
Cost: Free to $60

VHS digitization you seek, you'll have to make a purchase: Either you can buy a DVD recorder and use your old VCR as an input, or you can buy and install a video-capture card (such as the Hauppage WinTV HVR-1800 MCE) for your computer, and then connect your VCR to it.


Eliminate DRM Hassles
Effort: Minimal
Cost: $40

The entertainment industry is desperate to control how you use your digital media, but you just want to enjoy what you've paid for, wherever you happen to be. In many cases, removing DRM from media is a breeze.



Limit your kids' games with Time Machine
Effort: Moderate
Cost: $40

Protecting your kids from the dark corners of the Internet may seem like a breeze compared with the daunting task of limiting their time racking up achievement after achievement on their Xbox 360....

Time Machine transforms the video game console into an arcade-style machine, requiring tokens that allow kids to play for a predefined length of time.

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Manage media on any device

Sync iTunes across multiple PCs
Effort: Moderate
Cost: $29

You would like your iTunes library to follow you wherever you go, but iTunes isn't all that obliging...
app automatically syncs your iTunes library across multiple computers

Use your netbook as a media center
Effort: Moderate
Cost: Free

Your netbook is tiny enough that you can take it along wherever you go, but with that small footprint comes similarly small capacity....
But there's a silver lining. including your Wii, your iPhone, and, yes, your netbook....

Clean up your music's metadata
Effort: Minimal
Cost: Free

The iPod and iPhone, iTunes remains one of the most popular media players around.
This free download automatically scans, identifies, and updates your music's metadata with appropriate album art, plus song, artist, and album info...





Sudhakar

Informative post Dhilipkumar.

Thanks for this good share.
  :educated

dhilipkumar



Thank U The_Big_S...........



Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal

its great free all-in one tool straightens out your Registry, handles Windows startup programs, erases your surfing history, removes spyware and protects you from future infections, and gives your system an all-around optimization.

Be sure to tell the program to create a restore point before it goes to work. And examine, closely, what it will do in its overall system optimization. Apart from that, just direct the program to scan your system, see what it wants to do, and let it do its business.

Download form pcworld


WinSettings Pro

This tool you can kill junk files, duplicate files, and Internet tracks. It also includes a good cookie cleaner that displays all your cookies, lists their contents, and then lets you eliminate ones you don't want. Features beyond system cleaning include Registry tools that claim to speed up Internet access.
And how about a screen-capture program and wallpaper randomizer on top of that?

Download WinSettings Pro



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Secunia PSI

If you make sure that all of your applications are patched and up-to-date, they'll run faster and be more secure--and so will your PC on the whole.

Unfortunately, visiting the Web site for each of your applications can be so time-consuming that you'll never get around to doing it. Grab this freebie instead. It scans your system, lists all of your applications, and then regularly checks for security patches. When it finds a new patch, it applies the fix.


Download Secunia PSI
Price: Free

PC Decrapifier

One likely reason your system is sluggish is that it's bedeviled by "craplets"--software that your PC maker installed because it was paid to. Craplets slow down startup and general operation.

This free software removes dozens of unwanted items automatically. It zaps only a specific set of craplets and trialware programs: Those that are specifically put on new PCs, such as QuickBooks Trial, Wild Tangent Games, Dell URL Assistant, and others. (For a full list, go to the PC Decrapifier site.) Before you use this utility, create a restore point in case it kills something you wanted to keep.

PC Decrapifier

sakunthala

this shows how to speed up and secure the pc with cost or free
this is really informative post