Do you require to Clean PC Files. If you feel like answering these questions in “YES”, then you sure need to clean up PC files.

• Do you often install and try new software?
• Does your PC not running on its optimum performance levels?
• Is you Hard Disk clogged up?
• Does your system crashes up often?

There are lots of FREE PC Cleaning Programs available on the Internet, which can help cleaning your PC. IN this post, we will take a look at 7 such useful programs, which you can easily download and use.

How to Clean PC  – Free Cleaning Software

Cleaning up PC requires you to concentrate on many areas of your PC. We will focus on these areas one by one.

APPLICATION CLEANUP

1. AutoRuns: There are lots of the programs, which try to get into your Startup folder, when you try to install them. Even if you are not using them, they continue to run in the background and consume lots of RAM and slow down your PC performance. Besides this, they also make your PC boot slowly. So the solution is to Cleanup PC by knowing what applications and services get run on the startup. There is a nice Free PC Cleaning Software called AutoRuns (Download Autoruns here), which shows every application and service running on startup and it even tells you the DLLs in use. Once you get that information, you can decide, whether you want to keep that there or not.

HARD DISK CLEANUP

2. Easy Duplicate File Finder: If you have been using your PC for a long period, there are many chances, that your PC has many different types of duplicate files. They make it very difficult for you to search and organize them, besides taking up the importance hard disk space. Would not you like to clean these PC file and get rid of the duplicates. Easy Duplicate Finder (Download Easy Duplicate File Finder here) is a program, which scans for the duplicate contents on your PC and reports them. You can clean files en masse or do it on selective basis. It also tells you other details like system files etc. which protect you from accidentally deleting important files.

3. Wise Disk Cleaner: If you want an applications, which does more that just Duplicate finding, then use Wise Disk Cleaner (Download Wise Disk Cleaner here). Besides reporting the duplicate PC files, it also finds other types of useless stuff like temporary applications that are no longer in need, various log files, back up files, index files and lot of other crap. Just start using it, and you will be surprised to know the crap stuffed on your hard disk. Regular cleaning PC is extremely important to get rid of all of them.

CLEANING INTERNET FILES

4. Clear Expired Cookies: In today’s world, it is very common for the websites to place cookies in your computer, when you visit them. Most of these cookies are useful as they help you to remember login information, customization of the sites etc. However, many of these cookies have a life period, after which they expire and just clog your PC. Expired Cookies Cleaner is a useful and Free PC Cleaning tool, which cleans up PC by clearing the expired cookies. Download Expired Cookies Cleaner

5. HackCleaner: If you want to do more than just clearing expired cookies, the try HackCleaner (Download HackCleaner here). This simple but useful PC Cleaning software not only clears up the cookies, but also deletes many type of temporary files, Internet Toolbars and useless DLLs. It is also capable of moving data from RAM to a page file thus increasing your system performance.

PC REGISTRY CLEANING TOOLS

6. Wise Registry Cleaner: If you are habitual of trying and installing new Software programs, then chances are there that you registry will be in bad shape. Many software programs, which are badly written do not clean up registry and over a period of time your registry is full of junk. As your registry collects more and more junk, you increase the chances of slowing down your PC and crashes are more often.

Wise Registry Cleaner is PC cleaning software, which cleans up registry by finding orphaned or bad entries (Download Wise Registry Cleaner here). It classifies them into those, which are dangerous to be deleted and those which can be safely deleted. Before deleting, you can always take up a backup so that you can easily restore registry, if any problem occurs.

GENERAL PC CLEANING TOOLS

And in the end, a useful PC Cleaning Program, which helps you to cleanup PC files and keep them in top shape.

7. PC Decrapifier: Whenever you buy a new PC, chances are that the manufacturer has put in many trialware programs, for which he gets paid. You can easily identify them and delete them with the help of a useful PC general cleaning software called PC Decrapifier. (Download PC Decrapifier here).

Use these tips on cleaning PC and download free PC Cleaning software to keep your system clog free.

MySpace has announced in the month of May that they are working on data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary. The purpose of this project called MySpace “Data Availability” was to allow users to have a single profile across all major Social Media sites. The users will be required to make changes to their profile at one place, and it will seamlessly be updates at other sites.

Yesterday, MySpace Developer Team announced the arrival of Data Portability. They have made their APIs available for external use and called upon the other sites to make use of it to enable their users to leverage the power of their social data outside of the MySpace.com domain. It has been said that with its help, data can now be available to MySpace users no matter where they go on the Internet.

MySpace said…

We’ve also taken steps to ensure that none of this new functionality compromises any of our user’s privacy or security.   You will find a new 3rd party site privacy dashboard located in the account settings of your MySpace profile. Just look under Linked Sites to view it.  From here users can manage the relationship between their data and individual 3rd party sites.   Any revocation of access to data from within MySpace takes place immediately at the external site as well.   This ensures users won’t have their data floating around the internet without them being aware of it.

Even after about one year of the release of IE7 and the availability of better browsers like Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5, many Internet user still use IE6 for their browsing. This is due to the inertia of change. People just want to carry on doing what they have been doing, even if it is less productive and prone to vulnerabilities.

Same is the case here. A latest bug in the Internet Explorer 6 has raised an alarm, which might allow malwares like keyloggers to intrude into your system and cause damage. As per a report published by McAfee, a well known malware removal vendor, an unpatched cross-site scripting bug in IE6 could be used by hackers to capture keystrokes and steal other information.

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In a related statement, Secunia, the Anti malware agency, has said…

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when handling the "location" or "location.href" property of a window object. This can be exploited by a malicious website to e.g. open a trusted site and execute arbitrary script code in a user’s browser session in context of the trusted site.
The vulnerability is confirmed in IE6 on Windows XP SP2. Other versions may also be affected.

However, it has been said that IE 7, and the Firefox 3, doesn’t contain the bug and it is safe to use them with the threat of malwares and keyloggers.

So, watch out, before using IE6. If you are still running on IE, then why not make a smart move to switch to Firefox 3.

Plagiarism, the unauthorized use of somebody’s work, is a big headache for the content creators. You make a document or website, after many sleepless nights, only to find that the same has been published elsewhere, and that other person is getting more exposure and credit than you.

For instance, my lost post on A beginners guide on how to remove keyloggers was picked by one auto blogger, which runs a decent looking site and was posted here at http://www.techdispenser.com/slots/view/5479 (link removed). Although due credits were there, but what bothered me was the place Google gave to that post in its SERP. My post was indexed by Google within one hour. When I checked on Google (check yourself) after about six hours, I was astonished to find that I was sitting at No. 2 at Google, while my copy was at No. 1 position.

This led me to search more about plagiarism, and I found something interesting, which I thought to share with you.

Most of us already have heard about Creative Commons, which are a way to allow the restricted use of your content, with due credits. What I was knowing is that Creative Commons license can also be used for Offline Microsoft Documents. This facility is provided by an agreement by Creative Commons, Microsoft, and 3Sharp, LLC, an independent solution provider, which provide you an Office addon to enable you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel.

Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." Learn more about various choices among the Creative Commons Licenses here.

However, when I downloaded this addon and tried to test that on my laptop running Windows Vista with MS Office 2007, I got this Window…

Here I gave up. If you have Windows XP and MS Office 2003, would you like to share your experience ?

As per a recent report published in Stopbadware, China is the host of more than 50% of all Malware sites on the Internet today. StopBadware.org is a partnership among academic institutions, technology industry leaders, and volunteers committed to protecting Internet users from threats to their privacy and security caused by bad software. The authenticity of this Malware Alarm study is also somehow supported by Google, which has flagged all the 2,00,000 sites reported in this study.

Malware is a general term to refer to a malicious software, which has primarily been fabricated with the malicious intention to infiltrate or damage a computer system. Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, most rootkits, spyware, dishonest adware, and other malicious and unwanted software.

Interestingly, Google, which is also one of the sponsors of this study, has been ranked as the 5th largest source of malware sites. Possibly this is due to the large number of SPAM Blogs on Google controlled Blogger.com.

This report has come out at a time when China is under pressure from Tibetan Movement right in the mid of final preparation of the Olympics. Thanks, that I don’t know Chinese and as such am yet to visit a Chinese website.
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You can also read the full copy of the StopBadware.org report on this link. This report has some good insight and may of interest to you if you are involved in the malware war for the eradication of malware.

This post will introduce a simple and free keylogger removal utility, but let us first know a little bit more about Keyloggers.

Keystroke Logging, often called Keylogging, is the dubious art of capturing and recording Keystrokes as you type on your keyboard. The sole purpose of Keylogger spyware is to spy on your data, collect sensitive information and provide it to others for fraudulent uses, although sometimes keylogger software are also used for benign purposes also.

There are basically Three Categories of Keyloggers.

• Hardware Keyloggers: They are physically connected either within your keyboard or between your keyboard and your PC.
• Keylogger Software: They reside within your PC software.
• Other Types of Keyloggers: Besides the above types, there are other types of keyloggers also like Remote Access software Keyloggers,  Remote Access Hardware Keyloggers also known as Wireless Hardware Keyloggers, Wireless Keylogger sniffers and Acoustic Keylogger, but are not so common.

How to get rid of Keyloggers:

Hardware Keyloggers can be easily prevented, if you are vigilant enough. You just have to be more careful while allowing access to your hardware. And if you cannot avoid it, just keep regular watch on the cables and keyboards.

To remove Keylogger Software, there are multiple techniques used, depending upon the type of keylogger program being used. Following techniques are commonly used by the anti keyloggers.

• Use Anti-spywares: Many of the keylogger freeware are able to detect most of the keylogger freeware and remove them. So use a good quality Anti-Spyware program.
• Use Good Firewalls: Firewalls do not remove keyloggers but they spy keyloggers and prevent the data being transacted by them to their remote masters.
• Automatic form filler programs: This is a smart way to secretly enter your username and password without using keyboards. Something like Google Toolbar. But if you prefer to disable keyloggers in this manner then you have to be sure of the form filler program and that should be trustworthy.
• Web Based Keyboards: The are also used to prevent keylogger activities. Many websites provide an online keyboard just near the username and password fields. You can use them through your mouse. No Keyboards keys are used and hence you avoid keylogger detection.
• There are many other techniques like use of Alternative keyboard layouts, Speech Recognitions, Handwriting recognition etc., which are not that popular but are effective to disable Keylogger activities.

If you want to have a decent free anti keylogger software and not in the mood to search more, then KeyScrambler is a FREE download to stop Keylogger. KeyScrambler Anti Keylogger is also available as a browser addon for Firefox 3. You can safely download it from Mozilla Firefox 3 addon site. KeyScrambler has released the latest version of this useful Anti Keylogger program.

Windows, it is still the preferred OS for the millions of PC users around the world. The most popular software from Microsoft has been Windows XP till date despite the release of Windows Vista as early as in January 2007. Windows XP, the ubiquitous operating system from Microsoft, was first released on October 25, 2001, and since then more than 500 million users have appreciated its skills and features.

Despite its great utility and features, some Windows users complain about the slow speed of their Windows. There are various reasons behind the slow speed of Windows. Some of them are related to the lots of extra features which enhance its visual appearance. Some are related to inefficient utilization of system resources. Some are concerned with bloated software and some are because of our laziness. You can easily enhance the performance of your Windows, whether Windows XP or Windows Vista, by following some tweaks and by following a regular maintenance schedule.

There are lots of tweaks, which can speed up Windows and make Windows run faster. Here we are presenting a series of articles, which will give an answer to your question on …

[Related: I have now been using Perfect 10, which is a great way to make your computer faster.]

How to make Windows Run Faster

This is a 17 post series. In fact this series has been prepared by re-organizing some of my previous posts.

You will find that these tips, in general, are in context of Windows XP. But most of these tips are equally applicable to Windows Vista as well. They will speed up Windows XP and are equally relevant to make Windows Vista run faster. Click on the following links to go to the individual tip to make Windows run faster.

1. 50 Light Weight Software to Make Windows Run faster
2. Convert Hard Drive from FAT32 to NTFS to Run Windows Faster
3. Reduce Startup Programs to Increase Windows Speed
4. Disable Indexing Services to Run Windows Faster
5. Increase Windows speed by Disabling Unused Windows services

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6. Increase Windows Speed by Optimizing Paging File
7. Make Windows Run fast by Disabling Performance Counters
8. Use Manual Windows Updates to Run Windows Faster
9. Make Windows Fast by Adjusting Visual Effects
10. Make Windows Run Faster by Disabling Error Reporting
11. Disable Sounds to Make Windows Run Faster
12. Defragment Hard Disks to Make Windows Run Faster
13. Speedup Windows by Disabling Auto Search for Network Folders and Printers
14. Get Rid of Balloon Tips to Make Windows Run Faster
15. Replace Background to Load Windows XP faster
16. Run Disk Cleanup and make Windows run faster
17. Making Windows XP run faster by fixing system errors