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having no luck updating ccleaner free.does any body know of a free replacement .ccleaner keeps trying to get you pay.

Hi, Just bought on line a small 2T external HD & as is not shown I cannot Format it. Tried various programs like eases-us etc hoping they have something to make it show in w.explorer with no success. It specifies formatting in Fat32. My 1T PC HD is in NTFS & so is my other 1T External one...

What apps would you recommend ? I need either a free, or very inexpensive, app to adjust brightness and contrast for images. Here is an example of a new webpage I created with a background. But I need the background to be light enough, so words and links are clearly readable. >>>...

I can't afford Adobe Photo-shop. Gimp is the best alternative I know......

I answered a question on Quora about what are the first programs you install on a new computer. I gave my basic list of utilities i.e. CCleaner, Agent Ransack, HWMonitor, Defraggler, Malwarebytes Pro, SuperAntiSpyware, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc. Another computer geek posted back...

Afternoon all , I was wondering if anyone knows how to Uninstall Avast Free Antivirus . I installed it by mistake last night that and another program something with byte in its name . The program I installed was Daemon tools free , I have a large Disk image video file . And I thought Daemon...

My son wants to learn how to create 3D animation. Can anyone recommend some free starter software? If he takes a serious interest in then we can consider what ones to purchase. But what are some good ones to get started with. And if there are any good tutorial websites you know of please let...

I have activated the History backup facility in Settings, but all get is a folder FileHistory and various sub-folders, all empty. It is a facility I would like to use to cover new files etc. made since my last regular image backup - is there any other way of setting it up properly. If I cannot...

Malwarebytes has been a really terrific program for me for many years. Lately, it's been acting up and their tech support dept. has not been responsive to their customers. One of the posters on their site said they posted a need for help on Oct 8 and as of this morning -- Oct 13, have not...

I have both programs on my computer and wonder that since they appear to do the same thing, is it redundant to have both? Thanks in advance.

Hi All, Good Day. I have a user which hard disk falling soon, and I have backed the data, but however the come of the pst is had error opening and SCANPST can't repair it, during the file consistency check it failed and get "An unexpected error prevented access to this file. Use a disk error...

How do I delete all files except for those who has the [!] in their file names? EDIT: Found a workaround. It's a free program called Bulk File Manager v1.6.

When I start occasionally .NET programs the close immediately after start. Just a simple error box appears informing me that "xxxxxxprogram has stopped working". I installed .NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 and 4.6.2 here on 64bit Win 7. Not all .NET programs are affected. As an example one of the...

What's the best Anti Virus software to use? Free of course. This is my gaming PC so I'll be downloading, installing a lot of games, mods and so on. Sorry if this is the wrong section. Thanks.

Hi, I took a video(mp4 ) with my cell phone and xferred it to my windows box. I want to edit to separate the audio Track, about a 10 second slice of it , maybe repeat that section 3 times, or have it auto loop. I want to save that as a standard audio file like wav or mp4 etc. . . Is there...

Hello all! Can ya'll give me some recommendations and experiences on free ISO ripping software? I have a ton of music CDs, PC game & software CDs/DVDs, some sonogram DVDs, misc CDs that have children made school projects on them. I want to rip all of these to my computer to archive them. But if...

Paint.net is free! About Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online...

I am using windows 10. my firewall turns off automatically at start up and Microsoft edge home page shows proxy setting error. I think I have malware as i downloaded some free software and since then this has been happening. But MCAfee did not detect any virus or malware. I tried to remove some...

I hope I don't come across as horibly spammy on my third post here but I would like to share some info on a project that I've been working on. I know when it comes to free monitoring solutions we're all basically stuck with Nagios or some sort of Linux based product that is typically ugly and...

Inspired by a comment on webpage Aegis: Block all Windows 10 components on Windows 7 and 8 - gHacks Tech News I tried out the free uninstall script on Aegis for Windows 7/8.x - Block all known Microsoft spying and Windows 10 upgrade elements | technology which removes dozends of Microsoft...