I highly reccomend Advanced System Care Pro from Iobit. Quick and easy way to maintain system performance. theres a free version too!
I also give my vote to Avast. All antivirus slows your PC down a bit, any program that runs in the background does.
Norton is a nightmare to use on anything more than a single PC. If you intend to use it on PCs on a network where you may have remote access via...
Get Avast! Which uses the Kaspersky engine and is free for non-commercial use (Home Edition). I use it with Vista and it is superb.
Not sure about that one, Why would Microsoft be bothering? I would be weary of software still in the alpha testing phase if you've acquired it...
Just another thought too..Comaring it to Linux is fine, but also bear in mind that the two operating systems are not entirely alike. Windows has...
Vista is fine on a reasonable spec PC. Bearing in mind that a PC just deemed reasonable by XP standards, is probably going to run poorly with...
Hotmail always seems to be a victim of DOS attacks too?
Googlemail or Gmail is the way forward in my opinion. Much easier to use online or through an email client using POP3 or IMAP
Depends if the site you are connecting to relies on ActiveX. IE isn't so bad as a basic browser, but firefox is better. I find Opera to be quicker...
there is definitely an issue with a virus of some kind. There is a firefox extension called noscript which is quite good at preventing this happening
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