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Software to Compliment Windows XP
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AMUST Registry Cleaner One of the best well laid out registry cleaners. If I had to live with one, this would be it. It allows for scheduling a robust undo and registry compaction (Does not really compress. More like Defragments the registry.) AMUST scans multiple things at once to save time also. |
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Windows XP Downloads Get Microsoft TweakUI, PowerToys and others here. |
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Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MSBA) This will find vulnerabilities from security fixes and MAY report security issues that need to be sealed by the user. |
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Geek To Superhero Protect your Windows settings. This fills the gap between software firewall, anti-virus and spyware remoave tools. |
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DiskKeeper Lite Freeware. Same program that Windows XP uses for it's disk defragmenter. But updated to a newer version with a few more features. |
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Windows Media Player 10 Get the Microsoft's MP3/WMA/CD/Movie player on the internet. Don't forget the Windows XP Plus Pack Digital Media Edition. |
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miTweak-XP Free Tweak program to tweak XP further |
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Ad-Aware by LavaSoft. Get rid of spy-ware and don't forget to download Ref-Update to get the latest anti-spy-ware updates. Don't forget to update the def.'s once a week. |
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Spybot Search & Destroy Same as Ad-Aware. Highly suggested you run both as one will catch what the other does not. Don't forget to update the def.'s once a week. |
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Listen's Rhapsody Listen to their free music channels. (Many require a monthly fee and may include in demand music.) |
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SpamBayes The best spam filter for Outlook. Has a 98% success cleaning rate for me. This uses the popular Bayesian Formula. |
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Zone Alarm Best Free software based firewall. |
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