Looking to tweak and optimize your Windows 7 or Windows Vista installation? Can’t find all settings you’re looking to change? Here is a slick freeware utility to tweak your Windows 7 or Windows Vista (both 32-bit and 64-bit) installation. Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a TweakUI utility that lets you access all under-the-hood settings in one easy GUI environment. You can easily make changes without having to look for them under control panel or administrative panels.
With careful tweaking you can speed up your Windows installation by turning off features you don’t need and optimizing others. You can easily modify User accounts and UAC, System Performance, Security settings, Network settings and Internet Explorer settings. All this at a click of a button. The utility covers as many as 150 tweaks. I really loved this tool. I was able to get over the Windows 7 shut down and hibernate problems I was facing on my laptop. Moreover I feel Windows 7 on my laptop is much more stable now with a few tweaks here and there.
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There are plenty of Internet Security Suites out there that are available at a price. These include the likes of Kaspersky Internet Security, Norton Internet Security, Mc Afee and more. Two things are common in all the internet security solutions available on the Internet today. One, they’re all doing the same thing and two, you’ll have to deal with managing licenses and subscription packages time after time. How about a free internet security suite of your own? How about a simple install, configure and forget it system? Here’s how you can beat the paid internet security suites by creating your very own solution using freeware security software available out there.
If you look at any internet security solution available in the market it has three basic components:
1. Anti-Virus
2. Firewall
3. Anti-Spyware
Now there are freeware tools available to combat each of the three individual components in any internet security suits but the question arises that isn’t using a single tool better than using separate software? I’ll say it’s fine both ways. Or in better terms it’s the same both ways. You’ll see how as we go on.
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