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CCleaner 2.0 Final Is Out

September 12, 2007, 14:54(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

CCleaner v2.00.500 has been released and is the first 2.0 version to be marked as “final” (non-beta).

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.

Full list of features.
Download
***Only the standard build is available as of this writing. Be sure to uncheck the Yahoo toolbar during install!

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Cool Tool Of The Week – SIW

September 6, 2007, 14:36(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

This is one of my all-time favorite tools. Anyone who works on or with computers will at some point or another find this tool indispensable.
System Information for Windows – “Everything you want to know about your PC”.
[Read more…] about Cool Tool Of The Week – SIW

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

TechNet Magazine Spotlight on PageDefrag

September 5, 2007, 14:55(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

PageDefrag can defragment the Windows page file, Registry hives, event logs, and the hibernation file (the area on disk where memory is saved when a notebook jumps into hibernation mode). The program optimizes these files during the PC’s bootup sequence before they’re in use.

More at Technet

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

ProcessExplorer v11.0 Released

September 5, 2007, 14:52(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

We’re excited to announce the release of Process Explorer v11, which introduces major startup and UI performance improvements, new columns and process details for Vista I/O priorities, memory priorities, and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) DLL and executable attributes, an enhanced security properties page that shows raw SID values, fully asynchronous thread symbol resolution, integration with UAC, and more!

Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Ad-Aware Now Vista Compatible

August 29, 2007, 19:10(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Ad-Aware is an excellent Anti-Spyware product. There is a free version and a “pay-for” version.
Announcement
Download

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware, Security, Software, Windows Vista

Cool Tool Of The Week

August 29, 2007, 13:27(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

I’ll be trying to introduce you to a different program every week. This week:

WinToolsXP & WinToolsVista… [Read more…] about Cool Tool Of The Week

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

ReNamer 5.00 Released

August 21, 2007, 18:14(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

ReNamer is a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool, which offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc.

Screenshots , Download , Home

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware

AutoRuns v8.73

August 21, 2007, 12:21(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

This version fixes a bug that omitted nameless Browser Helper Objects from display.

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware

Pidgin 2.1.1 has landed.

August 21, 2007, 12:17(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

FREE instant messenger program. Works with most of the biggies. Download & Info.

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware

Sysinternals Tools Updated

August 17, 2007, 15:26(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

ProcessMonitor v1.22, TcpView v2.51, DebugView v4.7, AutoRuns v8.72

For those of you who don’t know, these are awesome free tools. I highly recommend ProcessMonitor and AutoRuns is a must have. Hit up the link above for more info and download links.

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware, Software

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