Toolkit – Other free utilities

  The 46 Best Free Utilities Ian “Gizmo” Richards maintains a running list of the 46 best free utilities on his “Tech Support Alert” Web site. Gizmo keeps the list up to date by adding and removing utilities and updating each of the 46 descriptions. I have referenced this page frequently, and have now added [...]

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Toolkit – Bootable CD tools (LiveCD)

  Hiren’s BootCD is a free bootable CD containing various diagnostic programs for fixing various Windows computer problems.  It is a Linux based operating system and provides dozens of utilities that can be best described as performing first aid for your computer. Anti-virus and Malware scanners, disk-check utilities, undelete……Download the 500mb zip file, extract or [...]

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Toolkit – PC Firewall

  Kerio Personal Firewall Highly respected  free firewall that almost went out of existence until it was rescued.  This is becoming the free firewall of choice by professionals. Zone Alarm Personal Firewall by Zone Labs Protects your computer by placing a barrier between your PC and all network traffic coming in and going out of [...]

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Rootkit Scanner

A rootkit is a stealthy type of malicious software (malware) designed to hide it existence from the Windows operating system as well as hide from Antivirus and AntiMalware scanners.  Kapersky Anti-rootkit utility – TDSSKiller is a free utility provided by Kapersky that will scan for Malicious rootkit software on your computer.  McAfee now provides a [...]

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Toolkit – AntiMalware and AntiSpyware

Special Note:   Remember – If your computer appears to be infected the first step I perform is a Windows System Restore.  A system restore will return your computers system files to a state recorded on a particlulare date and time you have selected. The longer the virus, malware, or scare-ware is running the more deeply [...]

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Toolkit – AntiVirus

Special Note: Remember – If your computer appears to be infected the first step I perform is a Windows System Restore.  A system restore will return your computers system files to a state recorded on a particlulare date and time you have selected. The longer the virus, malware, or scare-ware is running the more deeply [...]

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Internet Search tips and tricks

Ed Rudel Special Search Tips (Click on link to hear the segment of our 4/09/11 program where we discuss the tips and the new addition to the Toolkit) Can you imagine the internet without web search capabilities?   We would have to know specific web site addresses for every web site we visit.  A simple comparison [...]

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The Best Free Software of 2010

Get what you DON’T pay for!  PC Mag reports on 196 programs that cost nothing but will make your computing life richer while keeping your wallet fat!

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What is the best Anti-virus suite out there?

PC Mag recently put 12 anti-virus suites to the test to see who really give the best all around protection.  Remember, these are suites: they are like Swiss Army Knives with lots of functions, all of which take up Ram but just might offer some pretty comprehensive protection.  Full Story

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Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows

Computer crashes happen to all of us and usually at the worst possible time.

You guessed it, my computer crashed and now I have to deal with picking up the pieces. My job is to provide technical assistance and instill confidence into others whose computer have failed. This isn’t suppose to happen to me.

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Tool Kit

The Internet Advisor Toolkit Internet search Tips and Tricks 4/9/2011 – How to improve your Internet search experiance. To fully protect your Windows PC, you will require four additional software components. At The Internet Advisor, we have provided links to a number of FREE (and respectable) resources. Windows Updates Your computer should already be configured to automatically [...]

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Ctrl-Alt-Del What is all this junk

Ctrl-Alt-Del – Items in Task Manager Have you ever pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del on your PC, looked in the Task Manager Processes tab and wondered what all those programs currently running were? You may have pressed those three keys because your computer was hung and you wanted to reboot your computer. Maybe you have wanted to end some [...]

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