There are many free softwares to defend & keep your Windows secured when you’re online. One of them is a Firewall program. In addition to firewall, we also know antivirus programs, anti spyware, anti adware and other defender freewares for our online activities.
Keeping my computer safe is essential for me. I use two AntiVirus programs, AVG Free Edition & avast! Home Edition. I love both. Sometimes when one doesn’t recognize any trojans, another supports the hole. i do not recommend you to use two or more same programs, because not only will they eat your memory resources but sometimes will also generate some conflicts between each other. I’ll write more detailed articles about AntiVirus programs next posts in HWDOT.com in TWEAK WINDOWS category, so stay tuned.
OK, Now It’s time for Firewall… Continue reading ‘Defend Windows XP, Vista for FREE - Comodo Firewall Pro 3 (Freeware) vs. Zone Alarm Free Edition (Limited)’
Yeah a good start for your computer after applying some tweaks in the last www.HWDOT.com posts, Now your Windows Starts Up Faster, you have a Faster Windows Shut Down too. I know that Not only do We want to Tweak Internet Speed (when it’s Online) but also want to tweak computer speed (when it’s Offline).
In most cases, people want to speed Windows XP, or Vista, or 2000, 98, 95 and other Windows OS versions. But, do they know, What’s the primary cause of slow/unstable PC performance? It’s disk fragmentation. Continue reading ‘Speed Windows XP with IObit Smart Defrag Freeware -Better than- Default Windows Disk Defragmenter’
Congrats, Your Shut Down process should be faster now, after applying the last article > Tweak Shut Down Speed Windows XP. But, is it enough for you? if your FINISH is now faster, then how is your START. Is your startup still slow? Then you wonder How to tweak your Startup process too. So let’s talk about “How to Tweak Startup process in Windows XP”.
With more applications installed in your computer, they will generally make your computer slower, especially when your Windows XP starts up. By the way not all of them are needed for your startup process. You can manually deactivate some apps in your toolbar tray and choose ‘disable/exit’. But, there are some programs like ‘QuickTime’ and others will be activated again when your computer restarts. It’s not practical to deactivate them everytime you starts your computer. That would be annoying. You can use a simple freeware to help you manage the process and tweak windows startup. The free software is Quick Startup. Continue reading ‘Tweak Startup Speed Windows XP’
How Great ! So your internet speed is now Excellent after you’ve applied some tweaks [Tweak Internet Speed category ]. You say, “I can always browse internet online faster than before”. That’s what you experience while connected via online, a happy experience you have. You surf all internet world smoother than before. You are satisfied with all hwdot.com tutorials to tweak internet speed.
Sometime you are online for hours with no regrets. And then a close friend of yours calls you up by accident. Your friend invites you to hang out together with some lovely friends. You say it’s okay, so you should be off-line immediately, to finish your session of browsing because you don’t yet take a bath and prepare all things. You should disconnect, then shut down your computer. You press start then turn off computer and you are waiting the shut down process. But what happens? Oh No! it’s sooo slower than you expect! You wonder “How to tweak shut down speed ?!”. You don’t know how, You’re speechless and take the fact in painful way. Continue reading ‘Tweak Shut Down Speed Windows XP’
You may have already known Fasterfox, a good Firefox add-on/plugin to tweak internet speed in the last post. Now it’s time for another one. One of my best recommended add-ons for your fast Mozilla Firefox browser to handle download managers.
The plugin/add-on is to make Firefox handling your download links together at the maximum speed with a single click. FlashGot can help you to handle many external download links > you can download one link, selected links or all the links of a page together using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers. Continue reading ‘FlashGot - Firefox Add-ons for All Popular Download Managers Integration’
After all the last posts to Tweak Internet Speed, Now It’s time for HWDOT to share ‘How to Tweak Download Speed’. When we browsed a good website and have to download any interesting files/videos, We had better use a FASTER Download program than the default / standard one.
One of the simplest but most effective things you can do to speed up download speed is using a download program manager that makes your downloads faster, that’s like a Download Accelerator Manager. One of the best download manager i know and i’m currently using is FlashGet. This is a freeware download manager for Microsoft Windows. Continue reading ‘Tweak Download Speed via FlashGet’
WordPress 2.3.2 was released 4 days ago. As you know, i already upgraded my ‘old’ wordpress 2.2.1 to version 2.3.1 in the last post. Now i choose to upgrade again because of the urgent security release.
WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Getting version 2.3.2 will protect my blog from these disclosures. Continue reading ‘WordPress 2.3.2 Applied’
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