A list of Antivirus program uninstallers or removers that I have collected from various places.

The hosts file is is essentially a list of sites that you wish to block when surfing the internet. Hostsman is a freeware program that manages the hosts file for you.

A roundup of web filtering and child monitoring freeware.

I often get asked which security products I would recommend. So… today I am blogging about my current favourite freeware firewall (easy for you to say) and antivirus products and why I have chosen them. This combination I believe is as good or better than any you can pay for. Antivirus There are 3 major antivirus products [...]

After trying to backup 20gb of files onto 4 or 5 dvd’s recently I thought there must be an easier way to automatically sort the files into 4.7gb groups.  There are some solutions out there luckily and here are the best. SizeMove Sizemove is best described by their own literature: SizeMove.exe is a command line utility, with a GUI [...]

If you suffer from Hard Drive full messages or simply wonder where all your hard drive space is going to then the following hard drive disk space freeware could be invaluable. This freeware will let you visualize disk space on a hard drive or in a folder to see which files are taking up space. [...]

Photo by esti. Web Cookies Many people have heard about the privacy issues concerning websites tracking you online through the use of ordinary cookies. These are small text files that when used legitimately within your browser can help a website identify you so you don’t have to log in every time. Unfortunately advertisers and marketers also gather [...]

Information comes at us in many forms and I have been looking at ways to try and manage it. By manage I mean the sorting and storing of data like bookmarks or random bits of text or other pieces of info. To help with this I’ll be looking at 3 browser based apps Stumbleupon, ReadItlater [...]

Photo by JeffWilcox Whoops – If have you have visited here using Internet Explorer in the last week or so my blog wouldn’t show. It happened when I installed a plug-in for wordpress designed to speed my site up, the issue is resolved now. But……I think we can both learn from this (tongue in cheek here). I [...]

In this roundup of usb flash drive freeware I will be looking at 10 applications to help manage and secure your portable drives. This is not a list of portable apps, rather it's a list of freeware usb related tools.

Boclean has been installed on my computers ever since it was acquired by Comodo. It was designed to catch trojans and  could be run alongside conventional antivirus software to provide a more layered approach to security. Unfortunately it is to be absorbed into Comodo’s all in one security suite – which I’m not sure I’d [...]

Vista Services Optimizer has just been updated (and no longer crashes on my setup) so I have given it the review treatment.   As you can see from the options above it is possible to automatically or manually tune-up your services on your computer. Services are programs that start up but don't require any user interaction

Photo by Re-ality There's nothing more annoying than when you're happily installing a program or working on something you haven't saved and you get a crashed window. Here I'd like to tell you about a couple of programs that may help.....