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License Giveaway – iCare Data Recovery Software Worth $69.95

Software developers seem particularly generous this holiday season. From now until December 25, 2010, iCare Data Recovery Software is giving away iCare Data Recovery Software Version 4, which is...

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Secunia PSI Updated – Version 2.0 Released

Secunia has just released (December 20, 2010), Version 2.0 of their award winning vulnerability and patch scanning free application – Secunia PSI. As important as it is, that you secure your computer...

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Burn Your CDs/DVDs With Free CDBurnerXP

If you’re looking for value in a CD/DVD burner (and what can be better than free), then CDBurnerXP (last updated November 24, 2010), is definitely a significant freeware application. The fairly simple...

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Check Windows Security Status With Free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.2

Intrusion detection systems do a good job (or so I’m told), in protecting physical environments against desperados and trespassers. But, creating an access point by leaving a window or a door open,...

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Troubleshoot BIOS Beep Codes With Free Rizones Beep Code Viewer

Recently, I swapped out the video card on one of my machines, and at the same time bumped up the memory by adding another two GB of RAM. A fairly simple operation which was followed, unfortunately, by...

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Use Free Prey To Track Your Lost Or Stolen Laptop Or Cell Phone

Recent statistics indicate that more than 10,000 Laptops are lost, or stolen, each week at U.S. airports alone. Broken down, this same set of statistics indicate that a Laptop is stolen, not lost but...

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Save $29: Partition Assistant Professional Edition 4 Day License Giveaway

There are a number of sound reasons to partition today’s large Hard Drives. The best reason I can think of (from a personal perspective), is simply this – data organization. Additional good reasons to...

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A Recipe for Success: Six Ingredients for Maximizing Windows XP Mode Performance

Guest writer Tibor Schiemann, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of software developer TuneUp, (the TuneUp Utilities 2011 folks), walks you through Windows 7 XP Mode – what you’ll need, and how to...

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Emsisoft Free Emergency Malware Removal Kit – USB Ready

This post was originally published July 26, 2010. I came across the Emsisoft Emergency Kit just in the last few days, which means, I haven’t had a chance to put it through my normal test process. So,...

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Sysinternals Suite – More than 40 Windows Utilities In One Download

If you’re  a Geek, then I’ll wager that you’ve got at least one of Microsoft’s free Sysinternals utilities, such as Autoruns (startup monitor), on your system. Autoruns: If you’re a geeky Geek, then...

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Free StartUp Tuner 2 – Fixes Slow Computer Boot Time

Is Windows boot time starting to get you down? Do you sometimes feel as if you could go and make a coffee while waiting for Windows to start? Let me tell you, if you feel that way, you’re not alone …...

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What’s Really Running On Your PC? Find Out With Free What’s Running 3.0

Regular readers are going to start thinking that along with my addiction to wine, women, and song, I must be addicted to writing reviews on Windows Task Manager replacements and the like. This review...

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Free BufferZone Pro – Maybe The Best Surfing Virtualization Application At...

Back in December, regular reader John W, pointed me to a free license giveaway for BufferZone, a virtualization application which creates an isolated environment called the Virtual Zone, while you surf...

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Windows Problems? Get The Answer Straight From The “Horse’s Mouth”– Windows...

If you have a problem with your car, it seems obvious that you’d seek out answers from your mechanic friend, and not your friend the plumber, or your friend the carpenter. In other words, you’d get the...

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Paragon System Backup – Free For 3 Days Only (Save $29.99)

Paragon  System Backup (3 user license), is available for free until April, 22 9:00am (EST). To take advantage of this offer you will need to visit the Paragon Facebook page and click the “like”...

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Free Secret Disk – Keep Your Secret Computer Files “Secret”

The days of privileged information, and personal privacy, have gone with the wind. Private information concerning you is accumulated, bought and sold, and then manipulated for profit. If you’re like...

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Is Windows XP Dead? Not According To OPSWAT’s June 2011 Quarterly Report

To quote Mark Twain, “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” I suspect, if Windows XP were capable of speech, we just might hear the same observation repeated regarding its own demise....

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TweakGuides.com – A Tweakers Paradise?

Computing is more or less all about generics – a sort of, one size fits all approach. But, if you’re like me, the last thing you want is a machine that’s configured to run with settings which don’t...

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GigaTribe Private P2P – Share Your Videos, Pics, And Docs Privately

A few days ago, I ran a few tests on peer to peer downloads, on the off chance that things had improved in this malware infested playground. No such luck, of course. Of the five game files that I...

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Little TunnelBear (free) – A Drop Dead Simple VPN Built on Simplicity and Speed

I’m an Internet privacy advocate (regular readers will now pause – laugh – and say – “no kidding!”), and while the fight to rein in Google, and others, might seem unwinnable, privacy advocates have not...

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