Over a year ago, I informed you of the Firefox Add-ons I use and told you why you should download each one. In this guide, I’ll show you the current add-ons I use and why I recommend them. If you have an add-on to suggest, please leave it in the comments below along with the reason you suggested it for.
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Windows Guides Reader, Keith Johnson, recently downloaded IOBIT Security 360 after I reviewed it earlier this month. Keith liked it so much, he wrote the following review:
Recently, Rich Robinson, MVP and Webmaster of Minty White Dot Com, sent out a most useful piece of information in his website RSS feed. Specifically, Rich informed readers like myself of a utility program called IObit Security 360. Now, I have seen quite a few computer care programs out there, but this program is really cool. What I like most about it is the extremely simple and intuitive user interface. Once you download and install the program and get it running, you will notice four basic buttons on the left pane of the utility: Overview, Scan, Protection and Tools.
Readers, I believe a brief update is on the cards; a few things have changed lately. I’ll attempt to keep you updated with the major changes:
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- ReCaptcha is being used on members’ blogs to cut spam comments for them (thanks for the suggestion Christopher.)
- MyWindowsPC Help, the official MyWindowsPC help blog has been updated and given a new name.
- Members’ posts are now being featured on the front page.
- The site activity feed is now being parsed to the sidebar of Windows Guides.
rsvr85 is now part of the Windows Guides team. That makes two of us. Readers: now you’re in trouble ;)
rsvr85 is well seasoned in desktop customization and has been mentioned a few times on Windows Guides before for his work over at the Forums (rsvr85’s profile.)
rsvr85’s Posts
Here’s what we’ve seen from him thus far:
- Free PDF To Text Converter
- Microsoft Office 2010 Screenshots (14.0.4417.1000)
- Customise Windows 7 Media Center (Part 1)
- Change & Limit System Restore In Windows 7 [How To]
- Disable HomeGroup In Windows 7 [How To]
- Add Custom Libraries To Windows 7 Explorer [How To]
- Customise Windows 7 Media Center (Part 2)
Welcome to the team! Please welcome rsvr85 in the comments (it might win you a copy of Windows 7.)
The PC Maintenance Handbook is now available. This handbook is designed to help you find ways to maintain your Windows XP/Vista/7 PC and ensure your PC remains clean and speedy throughout its life. Computers quickly get bogged down by junk files, invalid registry entries, a fragmented hard drive, spyware, adware, low disk space, and more. A speedy system is just a few clicks away, but sometimes it’s hard to know where to start or even what to do.
The PC security handbook is now available. This handbook is designed to help you find ways to protect your Windows XP/Vista/7 PC and ensure your data is safe.
The purpose of this book is not to define the ultimate solution; its purpose is to give you simple, unbiased advice on what I’ve found to be the best options out there. In this handbook, I only give advice and share programs that I’ve used for at least a year. Some programs seem good when you first use them, but quickly annoy you or slow down your PC.
HomeGroup is a great new feature in Windows 7. Unless you have multiple Windows 7 computers on your network however, HomeGroup is pretty useless.
Disabling it will remove the HomeGroup link in the left hand pane of any Explorer window and stop the HomeGroup services.
If you’re not part of a HomeGroup already, skip to Step 2.
Step 1.
Start by clicking the Start Orb and hitting Control Panel
