Online Computer Repair - Archive for the '5 Must Have Programs' Category


You buy a brand new com­puter, fast as a bul­let for a few days but you then realise it slows down even though you haven’t done any­thing than surf the web or play games which are also not stored on your com­puter. Well, to keep your com­puter up to scratch and oper­a­tional as effi­ciently as pos­si­ble, here are 5 free to use and highly rec­om­mended pro­grams by sev­eral online corporations.

5. Spy­bot Search & Destroy

Spy­ware, Adware, Tro­jans, you name it and it’ll be out there. Whilst there is a com­puter, there will always be some­body out there who wants to know what you have and pos­si­bly use it for their advan­tage, leav­ing you with prob­lems. A side issue of a virus/bug is that it slows down your com­puter three fold and pos­si­bly more depend­ing on the virus type. Whilst there are many online com­puter repair shops, it isn’t dif­fi­cult to remove these pro­grams. The pro­gram men­tioned above is one of the top free Virus Scan­ner and Fire­wall com­bi­na­tion around, espe­cially with it’s now rec­og­nized Microsoft Approval. Every­thing about it is free, so you have noth­ing to lose with over 25,000,000 down­loads from the US dur­ing 2007 (Jan — Dec).

4. AlZip

The Al prod­uct range offers free ser­vices to home users with cheap licens­ing for busi­nesses. The free to use Al tool known as AlZip can com­press your files in bulk or sin­gu­lar. This isn’t like a online com­puter repair, but it fresh­ens up your com­puter space and min­i­mize file sizes, sav­ing that extra disk for trans­fer­ring files. Whilst the magic of AlZip can com­press files, it can also extract .zip files and many many more, all built in and ready to use within sec­onds. To date, nobody has had a prob­lem with it in terms of file man­age­ment and is ris­ing sharply in the use of home com­put­ers, show­ing over 45,000,000 down­loads World­wide since it’s launch sev­eral years ago (exclud­ing beta testing).

3. Mem­Turbo

This prod­uct is unfor­tu­nately not free, how­ever, it does come with a 15 day trial/evaluation period so you may “test” the prod­uct before you buy if you are not con­fi­dent it will work/be com­pat­i­ble with you. But look on the bright side, $29.95 for one of the best pro­grams you’ll ever buy with free upgrades for life. This does all the back­stage hard work for you. It is pos­si­ble to run it as a back­ground ser­vice once you have cor­rectly made the set­tings, mean­ing it can be fully auto­mated for­ever after just a quick 5 minute setup. Whilst this is a rel­a­tively new prod­uct on the mar­ket, it is gain­ing respect from major soft­ware review sites such as CNet and Source­Forge. With a 75% increase in down­loads over the last 3 months, this prod­uct will surely be with the top dogs soon, so just for­get the online com­puter repair hoax’s.

2. Advanced Win­dows­Care Per­sonal 2.8.6

If you want an all-in-one appli­ca­tion to take care of your com­puter, then Advanced Win­dows­Care Per­sonal 2.8.6 is far bet­ter than any­thing else, in qual­ity and effi­ciency. For­get online com­puter repair fee’s, this is by far one of the great­est releases on the Inter­net with a stag­ger­ing 52,000,000 dur­ing the last half (Jan-Jul 2008). What makes this prod­uct even bet­ter is that it is 100% free for­ever, and the design­ers of the soft­ware promise it will stay that way for­ever with a min­i­mum of 1 update a month, which the soft­ware down­loads, installs and inte­grates with­out you even know­ing. Sum­ming up to the fact that this soft­ware can man­age itself with it’s sched­ule sys­tem just incase there are times where you for­get about keep­ing your sys­tem healthy.

1. Aus Logis­tics Defragmentator

When it comes to defrag­ment­ing your hard drive, Win­dows only comes with the basic equip­ment to do this. So, a free and bet­ter alter­na­tive is Aus Logis­tics Defrag­men­ta­tor. It has a very sim­ple graph­i­cal user inter­face and all you have to do is select which drive you want to defrag­ment (Default is set C:) and then click Next. Then, it will begin to clean up your hard drive of use­less mate­r­ial such as empty fold­ers or errors in short­cuts etc. Is there truly a need for online com­puter repair when you have this? It can usu­ally com­plete about 450Gb/hour of defrag­men­tat­ing after it’s first use and from this, you will dis­played the results at the end of the scan say­ing how much space/speed it has given you from remov­ing unnec­es­sary files, it typ­i­cally speeds up your sys­tem by 65% on it’s first use, 40% on it’s sec­ond and 8%-10% from thereon.

In con­clu­sion, there are plenty of free soft­ware and tool design­ers out there, but not every­thing can match the stan­dards of that above. They are all earn­ing their way to the top, mostly for the cour­tesy of the aver­age home com­puter user who knows they can­not pre­vent their sys­tem grind­ing to tur­tle speeds. But, at least with these, that isn’t a worry.