clean up your system

[7/30/05] Windows automatically files great amounts of data on your hard drive that document your work and your usage of the internet. In time this data gets to be so large that it influences the efficiency of your system. Additionally, this data can be used by spyware programs to document your internet history and to accede to your personal data. Sweepi will help you find the unnecessary data quickly and safely destroy it.

I tried it and it sure wipes out a lot of stuff. It not only deletes temporary files, but old shortcuts, and cookies (hope you remember your passwords). So far I've found no problems after running it, but if you have trouble with your computer after using it, forget where you read this.

[10/5/05] Here's another one that sounds less drastic. And I like the sound of its name: Crap Cleaner (haven't tried it yet).

PC Wizard

PC WIZARD 2005 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware.

PC WIZARD 2005 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.

The Ultimate Solution to Spyware

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/technology/17spy.html?8bl

On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker's Dell desktop computer was overrun by spyware and adware - stealth software that delivers intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user's machine - he did not simply get rid of the offending programs. He threw out the whole computer.

How to remotely control another PC

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeware-news/message/4571

Apparently the article originated from PC Magazine.

Beware of Anti-Spyware

Not only do you have to worry about spyware these days, you can now worry about anti-spyware!

- from Robin C via freeware-news

resetting a BIOS password

WXPNews has a link, but this site has much more

PrintMaster Express

PrintMaster Express is a Print Shop type program available free from Broderbund. (The link was from freeware news.)

I haven't actually tried it but it must be pretty good since the folks at Broderbund are known for high quality software. They were the original publishers of the Print Shop program I used to use on my Apple II. They are now the publishers of both the Print Shop and PrintMaster (I think they bought it from somebody else). I guess that's one way to corner the market.

Introduction to JavaScript (and Java too)

This was from a link given in freeware news. But it looks like fortunecity has taken down CosmoSoft's page. (Or maybe Cosmo himself took it off.)

Anyway, the text is here at another site on fortune city. And also here.

And while I'm at it, here's a free online textbook, Introduction to Programming Using Java.

[7/16/05] more at tech books for free