Diagnostic Software

December 6th, 2009 | by | technology

Dec
06

Advanced SystemCare Free

This utility offers a one-stop-shop for cleaning and maintaining your computer for better overall system performance. The interface is very simple, featuring only a few buttons, which makes it easy to get down to cleaning immediately (in fact, it automatically runs on start-up) and doesn’t confuse you with multiple steps.

CCleaner

Although it lacks a few of the bells and whistles found in other PC-cleaning applications, this free program offers more than enough features to make it a worthy download.

Spybot – Search & Destroy

Spybot – Search & Destroy has been in the anti spyware game for a long time offering features we’ve come to expect in the best apps in the category, but bugs and false positives make it difficult to recommend.

Smart Defrag

Along with quick analysis and scans, SmartDefrag boasts an automated defragger that continually defrags the files that you use the most, and does it without becoming a persistent drag on your system resources.

Wise Registry Cleaner

Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry cleaning tools available in the market today. Its scanning engine is thorough, safe and fast. It is so easy to use, even the least experienced user can easily repair registry with this tool. It scans the Windows registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information in the registry. By fixing these obsolete information in Windows registry, your system will can work better and more quickly.

Wise Disk Cleaner

Wise Disk Cleaner is a free disk utility designed to help you keep your disk clean by deleting any unnecessary files. Usually, these unnecessary, or junk files appear as a result of program’s incomplete uninstalls, or Temporary Internet Files. It is best if these files are wiped out from time to time, since they may, at some point, use a considerable amount of space on your drives.

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Kaspersky fails with 0 marks

December 5th, 2009 | by | technology

Dec
05

I was a ardent proponent of Kaspersky until today, when I tested it with some cracks downloaded from internet (not for piracy, but for validating those cracks against my products). Though the sample size was too small (just 2 files) but from the reviews I had read about Kaspersky and its amazing price 10$ (India), I was a huge admirer of this software. But when I tested those cracks, whom I was sure of having some sort of trojan or virus (as nothing comes for free), I was amazed by the results, the first file was only flagged by Symantec (the software I least preferred), while the second file was flagged as Trojan by 25/40 scanners at virustotal.com, but not by Kaspersky.

Kaspersky, you disappointed me a lot.

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How to play region coded DVD in computer?

November 4th, 2009 | by | technology

Nov
04

The best way to do is to play the DVD in VLC, a free media player. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

But I have seen lot of original movies that can’t be played in VLC and then you have to rely on commercial tools like WinDVD, PowerDVD, etc. But these commercial players also have their own limitations and they can’t play region coded movies, so most users try to rip the DVD. Ripping not only takes time, but you also loose subtitles, etc.

Thankfully, now there is a better solution for the same: DVD43 (DVD for free). DVD43 is a free DVD decrypter that runs in the background and decrypts DVDs on the fly. To install just run the setup file which installs DVD43 and leaves a happy face icon on your task bar. DVD43 will run in the background and decrypt movies on the fly. Insert the DVD you want to play and wait for DVD43 to detect it (smiley face turns green). Start your favorite DVD player and enjoy watching region coded DVD’s without any hassle.

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