Utility Software Downloads

System Protection / Spyware Analysis and Removal Software

AVG Antivirus Security Software

Free internet security package for all versions of Windows.  Great package that does not drain your system resources like many of the retail box security packages. Highly recommended if you don't want to keep paying for annual licenses for your security software.
 

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is considered to be the next step in the detection and removal of malware. It is designed to quickly detect, destroy, and prevent malware.  Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware monitors every process and stops malicious processes before they even start.
 

CCleaner
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

Routine Maintenance and Cleaning

TreeSize

Every hard disk is too small if you just wait long enough. TreeSize tells you where precious space has gone. TreeSize can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders. You can expand this folder in Explorer-like style and you will see the size of every subfolder. Scanning is done in a thread, so you can already see results while TreeSize is working. The space, which is wasted by the file system can be displayed and the results can be printed in a report.
 

Belarc Advisor Another great PC analysis tool.  Creates a complete audit of all the hardware components, software components and Windows update patches installed on your PC.

PC Maintenance Instructions (1,209K)

Documentation that explains how to use the CCleaner, Malwarebytes AntiMalware, and SpyBot Search & Destroy software to clean and maintain your PC. This is a PDF download.

Data Recovery / Backup Utility

AOMEI Backup Freeware PC file and disk drive backup.

Hardware / Software Support

CPU-ID

Great utility for viewing hardware specific details about your CPU, the system board, and system memory.

Misc. Software Utilities

MWSnap (643K)
Very handy graphic image capture utility.  Copy or cut any image or Window to the clipboard and save the image as a file

GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIMP is a free photo editing software package with very powerful image manipulation capability similar to Adobe Photoshop.  Documentation and help available at www.gimp.org website.

7 Zip (1MB)

Free zip/unzip utility compatible with PKZIP and WINZIP.  7Zip runs on Windows and includes both a GUI interface and a command line interface. 7-Zip is a winner for its superior speed and support for multiple archive formats

VLC Media Player/DVD Codec (22MB)

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. Good replacement for Media Player if you can't play DVD's.

IrfanView (884K)
Nice compact image viewer and image editing utility.  You can perform basic photo editing and file resizing.  Handy to have on your desktop for manipulating a photo.

FastStoneResizer (1.45MB)
Fast Stone Photo Resizer. Quickly resize and rename your photos in batches automatically. Pick from custom sizes or use standard photo sizes to create copies of your photo files.  Great tool for creating email size attachments from your vacation photos.

PDF995 Document Converter
PDF995 is a free PDF document creation package.  It installs as a printer driver on your PC. You just opt to print to the PDF995 printer any document that you want to convert to PDF format.  Very simple and easy to use.  There are two programs that you need to download and install from this website. Click the link to go to the download page.

Excel Spreadsheets

Calendar 2011 (178K)

Excel spreadsheet calendar for the year 2011.  Each month is represented by a separate sheet in the workbook. Print your own custom calendars with this spreadsheet.

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