Many PCs deteriorate in performance over time. That’s usually not a problem in the first year of usage, and especially noticeable on low-end systems. The reason for this? To put it frankly, the PC is filling up with stuff. Users install and uninstall applications, which sometimes are added to autostart or services that run all [...]

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Computers connecting to the Internet do so with an IP address which is provided dynamically or statically by the Internet Service Provider (ISP). That IP address can be used by websites and services to identify a user’s location in the world, which in turn means that they can find out about the user’s ISP as [...]

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AVG is one of the few long-standing names in security software for the Windows operating system. I cannot really recall a time when there was no AVG security product available for the computer. AVG Internet Security 2011 is AVG’s flagship product which offers a complete security package for Windows users. The program comes with several [...]

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Nero 10 Multimedia Suite Platinum HD is a compilation of software programs by Nero AG. To be precise it consists of the video editing software Nero Vision Xtra, the burning software Nero Burning ROM, the backup software Nero BackItUp & Burn and Nero Multimedia Tools. The platinum version on top of that adds a Blu-Ray [...]

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The Windows operating system has been designed to be compatible with a wide variety of computer systems. From slow systems with little system memory to blazingly fast high-end PCs with solid state drives in Raid and 16 Gigabytes of RAM. That’s why the system is never optimized after installation, and why tech-savvy users tend to [...]

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There is no perfect security software on the market. If you look at reviews and tests of security software you may notice that the tests come to the conclusion that security software a manages to eliminate or stop 99.9% of all malware and spam. Guess what, that means that every 1000th attack slips right through [...]

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I have been using Bulk Image Downloader for more than a year and have to say that It is the best batch image downloader on the Internet. Yes I know; This is a review and it sounds like I’m overstating here. But I actually bought the software from the company a year ago and never [...]

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Sandboxing as a security concept means to limit a program’s reach on a computer system. When you normally run a program it can act with the same user rights as the user. If the user can make modifications to the Registry, so can the program. If you sandbox a program on the other hand it [...]

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Just like you have to maintain your car from time to time, you need to take care of your computer system. Probably even more so if you work day in and out with your PC. Advanced SystemCare PRO is a system maintenance software that can perform a variety of maintenance related tasks either manually or [...]

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