Spyware Security Practices Aid Computer Mantainance by A Singh
Spyware is a scourge for many PC users. Spyware not only covertly runs in the background and steals personal information of the user it is a potential security threat of which the extent of the damage cannot be determined. Though it is important to install anti-Spyware and anti-Adware on your... These tools include good free Spyware removal software among other security measures the user can take to protect the computer from malicious attack such as Viruses, Spyware and Adware. ... A Spyware removal utility is another free Spyware removal software that scans and cleans the registry very...

Three Great Places for Free Software by Douglas Hanna
There's a lot of software out there that you can download free – either completely free or to try for 30 days free before buying. Three great sites There are three great places where you can find freeware and shareware. The first of these is www.zdnet.com. ... This section has literally hundreds of downloadable utility programs, including programs for data recovery, fixing your registry file, undeleting files, managing files, and increasing computer performance. ... Like Twocows, this site is aimed more at us non-techies, with categories such as Audio & Video, Design and Photo, Desktop...

Keeping Your Computer Happy by Mae Paulino
Does your computer last for only a year or so, hangs every so often, and gets struck by virus most of the time? Are you giving it enough hours of rest? Is it cool enough most of the times? Can its memory handle all the applications that you use? If you still don't know it by now, computers are... Running utility tests every week will be of big help to keep your computer virus and worm-free. ... In addition, sometimes, anti-virus programs are just not enough, and that means you have to have other software that will shield your computer from any malicious scripts and programs.

Online Backup: Your Computer Is Being Held Hostage, How Much Ransom Will You Pay? by Andrew Sperry
According to the US National Archives, “31% of PC users have lost all of their files to events beyond their control.” Look at the person on your left. Now look to the person on your right. If it’s not one of them – IT’S YOU. It hurt didn’t it! And if its not you, you know a guy, right? ... The concept is quite simple: load a small software utility onto your computer that constantly runs in the background and tell that utility where you keep your critical data files. ... Now just reload the copies of all of your data (you know, the files you make with you computer hardware and software that...

Windows Startup Errors: How To Fix Them by Gary Bracken
Windows Startup Programs Can Slow Down Your Computer: Almost all software programs you install using the default installation usually decide that they should start-up every time Windows starts. If not kept in check, you can end up with a situation where your computer will slow to a snail's... On our test computer, we found 36 programs that were loading on Windows startup, and our overall windows resources were at 48% (this after we rebooted our computer!) Once we ran a good Registry Cleaner & Optimizer, our system resources were restored to an impressive 96% and our computer ran...

Remote Access Programs by Josh Riverside
Remote Access Programs are one of the leading examples of the advancement of information technology. Their basic aim is to keep the offsite people linked to the office. In today’s scenario of tight schedules and tough competition, more and more entrepreneurs work outside the office premises. ... Remote Access Programs like file transfer utilities, remote-node servers and remote-control software are specially designed for those people who need remote access to the office network and resources. ... You might need to access a file left behind on your desktop computer.

Remote Software by Sezer Bozkurt
Remote access programs are useful and efficient in so many ways. The main focus of this technology is to basically make the office accessible from anywhere that has an internet connection. These days the line between work and home are being blurred with employees working over 50 hours a week in... Remote-control software, such as GoToMyPC allow the user to control the computer that’s sitting in the office as if they were sitting in front of it. ... You might need to access a file left behind on your desktop computer.

Good Computer Maintenance - Part One by Marv Ko
Normally we think of maintenance as a chore, something we have to do to keep things running smoothly and prevent problems down the road, whether with our car, house, or computer. But with a PC, maintenance can actually be fun ... approached from the right perspective. ... Recent testing by the computer magazine PC World, however, showed that defragging no longer improves performance the way it used to. ... Symantec's other utility suite, Norton SystemWorks, is less useful, and if you need system tools more powerful than those provided by Windows itself, a better package overall is V...

Speeding Up Your PC For Free by Jon Arking
My mother-in-law is not very good with technology. She understands that computers run the government and that the Internet is great for purchasing figurines on eBay, but that's about it. Like all tech-proficient son-in-laws before me, I am often my in-law’s foil for computer questions and repair. ... So, when she came to me demanding that I make her 1996 PC run faster, I knew she wanted me to use all my skills and computer super-powers to forcefully evolve her computer into the new millennium. ... Scan the main disks for errors (My ComputerRight-click on C...

PDF Scraping: Making Modern File Formats More Accessible by Joe Broderick
Data scraping is the process of automatically sorting through information contained on the internet inside html, PDF or other documents and collecting relevant information to into databases and spreadsheets for later retrieval. On most websites, the text is easily and accessibly written in the... A computer hardware vendor wanted to display specifications data for his hardware on his website. ... They employed a PDF scraping utility to deconstruct the PDF files and figure out where the links were.