RESOURCES FOR YOU
2 additional recommended programs are:
Pest Patrol and Pop-Up Defender.
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Both are new and highly rated.
All are available from
www.cnet.com
Give them a test drive. Most have some unique features.
Put 'em through their paces...see how you like them.
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With the Bel Arc advisor:
Inventory your machine. Look at the installed software.
Do you recognize all of the different programs? Which ones came with your machine new? Which have you installed? Which ones do you need to investigate, and possibly eliminate?
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A excellent program I can't praise enough is the Pro Uninstaller that allows you to get every last scrap/bit/byte of an unwanted program off the hard drive.
Another one that does more than I ever knew was available is the Diskeeper defrag program, which makes the Windows XP "defrag-ability" seem pitiful.
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Spend some time on
www.cnet.com reading up on all these topics.
A terrific learning resource for all things computer/tech related is
www.techtv.com especially Call For Help and The Screensavers. Lots of very well written articles are in their reference archives. Tech TV is also a 24-hour cable station you might look for.
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HTH