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""Google BELARC advisor, download and run on your old computer
This will give you all your key licenses for all your software that requires one incase you don't have them all handy and army familure with finding them in your programs. It also gives you a lot of other usfull information about your computer.""


Thanks, I think my post from 2 weeks ago is gone?

The only things left are that my back-up Sandisk does not work on Windows 7 and I will have to buy a new scanner.

Ccleaner is a good one to clean out all the bloat and garbage that builds up...plus can blow out any unused registry entries.

http://www.piriform.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

My utilities for cleaning a computer

AVG Free
Malwarebytes
Spybot S&D
Ccleaner

Also by entering malware/harmful url's in your /etc/hosts file you can block 95% of the garbage on the internet
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; <- this place has THOUSANDS of them updated quite often!

WarHawk-AVG wrote:.../etc/hosts...

And there are still Windows folks who will swear that MS never stole anything from Unix / Linux. haha!

/sorry...geek speak

WarHawk-AVG wrote:Ccleaner is a good one to clean out all the bloat and garbage that builds up...plus can blow out any unused registry entries.

http://www.piriform.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

My utilities for cleaning a computer

AVG Free
Malwarebytes
Spybot S&D
Ccleaner

Also by entering malware/harmful url's in your /etc/hosts file you can block 95% of the garbage on the internet
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; <- this place has THOUSANDS of them updated quite often!

Good choices

Spywareblaster prevents SOME harmful stuff in Internet Exploder, so they don;t need removing later ...
but it needs manual updating to be free


Since forever, I've used:

CCleaner (free)
Spywareblaster (javacoolsoftware.com) (free)
Comodo firewall and antivirus and antispyware suite (free)
Spybot Search and Destroy (free)

and Firefox browser (free)
On the computers I had Microsoft Security Essentials on, it worked fine alongside the ones above.


I used to run Avast (free) and AVG (free) ... Avast found some/provided warnings AVG missed, and some AVG version conflicted with something once, but I've never had trouble with Comodo, and it works.

I agree, Belarc is great