I am lost here. I do not see where 3$ can translate to that password. And I do not see where the various colors come in. Not a good explanation on PasswordCard.org
i'm looking for a cad program (free) to aid me in records keeping of my past work sights mostly parking lots, public roads and highways. Any suggestions?
Having twice in the last two month had the mail in my inbox just completely disappear, I find the endorsement of Mozilla Thunderbird as the best choice quite questionable. A check on the web indicates this is quite a common problem.
Coupled with Mozilla's recent announcement of the cessation of further development of Thunderbird has persuaded me that it's time to move on. So I'm open to suggestions on a reliable free or fee PC based email client. (Which is why I came to this site in the first place).
For those persisting with Thunderbird, I suggest they move the contents of their inbox to local folders on a frequent basis. But with caution.
In fact it was in the process of doing this that I lost my inbox contents. I had sorted just over 100 emails into sender order and had transferred a group to a topic specific local folder when zap!, the rest of the inbox disappeared.
Excuse me, I am looking for something that can schedule automatic download of web page, and it can loop for certain duration, e.g. start copying a web at everyday morning10am and continue downloading every 10 minutes till 16pm, which of these software can meet this requirement?
Thanks
Once you've installed this app and run it.it asks you to uninstall.why?if your android is infected and encrypted how will you be able to access this app
I'm running vista.any ideas whyim getting diverted to Microsoft windows 10 from my search bar on Firefox.have not long updated 20 updates for Microsoft.theyre a pain in the ass .Linux looks like the way for me
Enjoy your retirementwith your wife, may it be long in health and happiness. I found this site by chance about 15years ago and what a goldmine of info it's been. From freeware to forums and you and the editors. Some businesses could take a leaf out of your book. Amazing and take care
come on people it only takes a few $$$ to keep this the best site on the web,quality freeware and forum for people that are not tech minded like me.learnt a lot from this site its priceless!!!
I'm brand-spanking-new to this site, and sadly; I'm a brokester. I'm so impressed with the content, and the hard work you all do to maintain it! It gives me hope that I might be able to learn enough to actually USE some of it, to improve my PC and iPad. I simply feel I must participate in some way. I pray that the little bit I give, can help out. I'll buy a cap when I get my next check, maybe be then I'll have worked up enough nerve to try out some freeware!
Thanks for being here, it means the world to many of us! I'll keep you in mind..So glad to have found you!
Sincerely,
Siouxz OOX!
The dangers of these types of programs is very high. Computers users may not be easily categorized but I would offer these general categories; very Knowledgeable, knowledgeable, casual, novice (in terms of computer knowledge). It seem easy enough to say that the this web site and these comments come from knowledgeable computer users, but this group is in the minority. The vast majority of users (probably world wide) probably cannot detect, grasp the nuances and avoid installing OpenCandy and its ilk. Which means that in spite of an intellectual debate that informs us enabling us to make knowledgeable decisions(like this particular discussion) the vast majority of users will unknowingly install Opencandy. How many millions of installations is that? 1,10,100 million or more? I worked on my Grandmother's PC that had slowed to a crawl and hundreds of these types of products infesting her pc, slowing it down and doing who knows what. It is this defenseless group who form the vast majority of users who will end up with this program. They are the prey. I acted in her behalf to warn her, put some protections on her PC and to give some good general advice. I think it is an obligation of the knowledgeable users to act on the behalf of those less capable, think of it as a civic service. This program should be banned because the majority of those who end up with it, were targets and not capable of acting in there own behalf.
I just tried 'ClipConverted' to download YouTube audio and got an error message "ClipConverter is not available for videos containing music.'
Will look elsewhere.
Attempted to download and run Freemake Video Downloader on Feb. 14, 2020. One can no longer download files in HD and/or MP3 (AAC only) formats for free. I kept getting a popup to 'upgrade to a paid version' for the ability to use those features.. Bummer!!!
I'll probably stick with 'RD /S /Q %SystemDrive%\windows.old' in an elevated Command Prompt (presuming it's still allowed by 8.1). No waiting for disk scans.
Backup first, of course.
'Blank' is the only way I could stop the ads.
If I chose the 'Classic' setting, the ads were still there, but they were placed at the end. The ads started showing up as I was deleting my previously visited sites.
It's better than most, but I wouldn't rely on it. Go to YouTube and watch 'More fun with ransomeware part 4'.
It's virtually impossible to stay ahead of malware due to security always being at least hours behind new exploits.
A recent (unplugged) disk image/disk clone is still the best defense against ransomeware.
Anything's possible with a delayed attack. One would hope that anyone who creates a disk image would also make sure beforehand that the original image isn't compromised, as there is no ability for devices on opposite sides of the "gap" to communicate - but that discussion is for a different article.
Snappa's website doesn't seem to fully support Pale Moon or Vivaldi (with or without ad blocking) - video won't play on either browser, so it's unlikely that I'll revisit the website. I'll stick with software that's currently working OK.
Perhaps, but I'm not going to circumvent my security for any website that I don't have a pressing need for. I was checking my work email and this looked 'interesting', but if the site developers don't want to support certain configurations, then so be it.
That's one year of a program I didn't have before. One year to see if the program surpasses any freeware or previously purchased software, and/or is worth the going price when the year long trial is over - assuming I play around with it within a year (no video projects at the moment). The free version looks too bare to be of any value as far as evaluating the Pro version goes.
Thanks!
This tool helps you find adjectives for things (nouns) that you're trying to describe. 'Stalwart' is not a noun.
For non-nouns try their sister site: http://relatedwords.org/
I'll probably never use the sunflower wallpaper as a desktop image as is, but it's just begging for some text in a couple of areas, so it's going onto my one of many todo lists.
If you don't see the '+ Add to Chrome' blue button, you're either not in the Google web store, or you're not accessing the web store with Chrome (or any Chrome fork).
An easy way to tell if it's the latter is if the blue button reads 'Available on Chrome' instead of '+ Add to Chrome'.
After a little research, it's an image of a structure (in Armenia) to break up the force of a raging river.
Personally, I think it looks better in sepia. The metal seems to pop a bit better.
I've been using this add-on with Vivaldi for a bit The only downside I could find is that it doesn't play well with some other add-ons. A simple reinstall will fix it every time though (so far).
Be careful. If the software was installed by the computer manufacturer, these key finders will likely return a one-time bulk installer product code which won't work again. I've been burnt by this more than a few times.
Key finders work fine with a manually inputted product code.
Could you please provide a link for Tencent? They quite often give false positives and it's really hard to find where to go to even ask about this kind of thing, especially when it's all in Chinese.
Can any CVS software (kind of Git, Bazaar, CVS...) be used for the same?
I've being trying all the applications you say in the article and I prefer Alway sync, though is not perfect, I don't like the double scrolling system.
They are not intelligent enough.
I would like some app that show everything as a tree and able to detect not only that something exist in the other folder but also able to detect that a whole subtree/branch/folder with subfolders has been moved to a different place.
Instead of that this applications tell you that something is missing from one place and something is new in some other place but you have to figure out the relations.
There are many others, such as Freemake, Any Video Converter and Mediacoder.
Sometimes I use Mediacoder because it lets me to choose frame rates as low as 1 fps. Sometimes this is good to highly compress some tutorials or "still image" videos without loosing resolution.
It has a drawback though, an annoying ad.
One thing to be taken into account is that the fast GPU compression that many programs offer dont's produce a good quality output, even with larger files.
What program/settings is the best option to play high quality avi or mkv videos on an old computer (with Windows)?
Now I'm using a old laptop. Potplayer, VLC or mediaplayer work well with movies up to 1000kbps.
But if I try to play anything aboce this or 720p all I get is image problems, interruptions, pixelation and desynchronization, no matter the settings I use (even with lav filters...)
Is there any program able to play 1080p movies in a old computer?
I don't mind not having special effects, perfect image... only need to get a lower resolution image without problems
I already tried the overlay mixer setting before, and in fact is the best option so far, though not enough for all videos.
I will also try the "reset video" option you suggested. ¿Are you sure that won't need even more resources to make an extra conversion?
It's my girlfriend's laptop, an old Samsung R20, Celeron M dual core 1.7Ghz.
with a Radeon Xpress 1300M.
The dxva setting doesn't make any difference. I guess this card is not powerful enough.
And I don't know why the task manager only shows one core even though the computer is supposed to have 2.
So far the best option I have found is SMPlayer. It allows to skip some frames to allow better synchronization. Does Potplayer (or the LAV filters) have this option too?
Teamviewer is a lifesaver, and they have good customer support. We have several licences, and there is never a day that goes by that it is not used quite a bit.
This works fairly well, but I would prefer to download an app that is does this. [commercial software edited] is supposed to be able to do this, but crashes when using a large image, and they have no technical support.
Guys, fix the Donate Link in your email that you sent out regarding donation requests. I was going to click it from within the email, but the link is not set up. Thanks. (Still donating. . .)
I'm strongly dissagree, if you have high quality sound system foobar200 is only viable choice because foobar2000 mandates sample-exact seeking for the sake of accurate timing and processing. BTW with that kind of audio system you will be able feel the diference on your own. Free sowtware doesn't mean that it will be play on 10-cent headphones ) musicbee even can't play .iso.wv :( foobarr and AIMP can.
And about AIMP insecurity...Really ? Because it made by russian developer and hosted there :)
for example vanilla winamp can't separate tracks from .flac.cue ) AIMP can ) and new AIMP version (4.0) is really great.
And one feature that i really appreciate - AIMP has built-in-out-of-the-box-one-click ability to record streaming audio, for example internet radio ) with user defined save_format and split_track options. English translate included.
ps. I often use your site for choose some software, and always your ranking was well grounded, but not this time :)
For the UPnp Exposure test, select ShieldsUp from the second gold box on http://www.grc.com/default.htm to go to the ShieldsUp page, then select 'Proceed' then on the next page you should see the gold button a little ways down the page.
My experience was that only the PCs I updated from Windows 8.1 Preview to the final version of Windows 8.1 generated the "Previous Windows Installation(s)" files for cleanup. The PCs updated from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 did not generate any files for cleanup.
(1) Where's MalwareBytes?! This list was updated December 12, almost 2 months after its long-awaited arrival in Google Play.
(2) You have done an excellent job highlighting apk scanning, privacy features, and various utilities. However, you touch very little on the biggest malware threat of all: those embedded in pdfs and other common files. Many of these apps do not offer real-time scanning of new non-apk downloads. And several—including your new favourite app, 360 Mobile Security—offer no file scanning capabilities at all. At the very least, this should be added to the "con" list. This is a much more critical feature of any antivirus app. While phone finding, RAM monitoring, and backups are wonderful, they are not a necessary component of an anti-malware solution, and there are many excellent free apps available that provide these services. I—amongst others, I imagine—would rather use an app that provides full anti-malware protection and no other features, as opposed to a security "suite" that provides many services but no protection against documents etc. Thankfully, there are quite a few apps that offer this protection, but this list is more or less ignoring this aspect.
I have been running BOINC since 2008. Please educate yourself before making such statements. There are many more projects than SETI@Home. Some have more merit than others. SETI is simply the most well known and has introduced most users to the BOINC platform so is the most often cited. BOINC is open source freeware that has nothing to do with any government. Idle computer time can be used to help find cures for AIDS, cancer, ebola, etc. or help study the orbits and properties of near Earth orbit asteroids, find prime numbers... There are literally dozens of projects to choose from. Not to mention a friendly and active online community with users willing to help with issues far beyond the scope of BOINC itself.
"Please educate yourself...." was in response to crosseyedlemon.Thought the bit about the government made that clear. Others had posted during the interim. I will do my utmost endeavors to spare all such mortification in the future. I do indeed thank Rob for the exposure thus provided for this very worthy software. The decision the contribute to the betterment of all mankind is ones own.
I want to install 32-bit applications under 64-bit system of Windows-7 O/S, but the applications are not compatible. How can I able to install those applications under 64-bit O/S ? Please help me.
You will want to read this first before installing Sophos Home - https://www.sophos.com/en-us/legal/sophos-group-privacy-policy.aspx#cloud
Snippets:
What personal data do we collect?
We may collect personal data such as your name, company position, address, telephone number, mobile number, fax number, email address, credit card details, age, IP address, and account usernames.
How do you use my personal data?
If you provide personal data to us, we will collect that information and use it for the purposes for which you have provided it and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Ok, so i have never heard of EMET until this article, my question is are there any downsides to using it? For instance, does it slow down programs? Hog memory? I would think with a tool like this any application that you assign to EMET would have these extra security checks running in the background and hence would take a performance hit. Ideas/thoughts/suggestions?
Free Download Manager(FDM) was top rated and i was looking to increase my download speed, so I installed it.
In chrome, the Win7 iso download (3.1gb) was varying from 250 -400k/sec download speed, with an estimated time of 4 hours.
FDM was moving at a snails pace of 70kb/sec with an estimated time of 14 hours.
I installed UGet and its running super fast at 1.9M/sec with a total time of 29 minutes.!
Perhaps there's some tweaking that can be done within FDM to improve its performance, but straight out of the box, in my situation, UGet is vastly superior.
StartMenuX free is excellent, i have my jumplist apps on the left, then 3 columns of additional apps. You can resize the height and width to your exact liking, any number of columns. This is the only Start app that i have seen that is customizable like this.
The only thing it lacks is a backup/restore of settings, but you can copy the registry entry in HKCU_Software to backup/restore.
Resplendence Registrar is a top RegEditor. I have evaluated numerous ones, and except for the Monitoring feature, OORegEditor is also excellent, with lower resource usage, and i believe merits a look.
Love Gizmo freeware, keep up the Outstanding work, also like the pic of Sunflowers is great, but incorrect, Sunflowers always Face the Sun, not like the pic shows.
This may be old news to some here, but it was news to me today.
WinPatrol has apparently been sold to Ruiware.
According to the WinPatrol site, nothing will change and the new owner says he plans to continue as before.
I was aware Mr. Pytlovany has had some personal issues, I thank him for everything and wish him the best....
I have used this site for a couple years and have been very pleased with it.
Finally registered today with an FYI and a question.
I have used Photoscape for awhile for a couple of its features.
Today it prompted me to download a new version 3.6.5 which I did.
After downloading I scanned the file with my anti-virus and Malwarebytes.
Malwarebytes gave a warning that it contains OpenCandy.
I re-scanned the last version I had downloaded v3.6.2 and it does not contain it, so it appears it has been added recently.
I know there are different views on OpenCandy and I understand that.
(My opinion is I don't look for trouble.)
My question is has anyone installed the newer version and does it give an option to opt-out?
Thanks...
I'll second that mouse53, with 1 clarification, I do understand that freeware creators need, want or hope to make money on their software and I will help them when I can.
It always seemed simple to me, IF an adware or toolbar developer is truly proud of their software, all they have to do is add a little blurb during the freeware installation telling you it is available and what it does and then have an UNchecked box where I can opt-in if I am interested.
Having a hidden or difficult to find box that is already checked and I HAVE to opt-out to avoid is underhanded no matter how you look at it.
IMHO That includes Adobe w/McAfee.
I also appreciate Gizmos giving me a heads-up when a program is infected with un-necessary and probably unwanted add-ons.
I'm confused.
I have been using the installed English version of HxD since 2010 v1.7.7.0
It's the same version that is available now.
I have compared what I downloaded then and what is available now and they are identical.
All the file features still work fine, including the compare feature.
I see no mention of a trial or Pro version on the site.
Also (from the review), I have never had any problem over-writing a file.
After I complete any changes it asks if I want to save them.
If I say no, original file is unchanged.
But I always backup prior to changes just in case.
I tried the portable version today and it works the same.
I have never needed the Disk Editor or RAM Editor, so I cannot comment on them.
This is a great little program. I don't use it a lot,
but when you need something fast & easy, nothing else will do.
Just use VERY carefully.
Unfortunately, more and more sites protect themselves against disposable mail adresses,
The check the domain name of the email adress agianst a list of known disposabel email sites.
That said, these sites are sitll very usefull for the remaining sites
My go-to text editor for years for website editing, script editing, quick and dirty reminders... actually: anything .txt related.
it is fast, simple enough to use it, feature richt enough to keep using it. And portable, if you wish.
AndyR, Thank you for the KB #s, I will check...
I started my Win 7 PC this AM to an icon on the clock task bar to reserve my Win 10 free upgrade. I tried to quickly dismiss it but there is no ready option. So I clicked it and watched the screenplay.
There is nothing that appeals to me at all. I don't like Win8 or 8.1 and I am quite happy with Win 7.
I purchased my PC because it had Win 7.
Part of my updating routine is to always update my software. Now, I can't even trust that.
Is there a way to tell right off, if MS is infecting my PC with updates for Win 10?
I use my Win7 WMP extensively. I purposly converted my entire CD collection to electronic and sold my CD player and gave away all my CDs.
I have WMC for my X-Box 360. The thought of having to use WinAmp is not appealing to me. I want my WMC.
Since it seems the trend is pushing toward cloud computing I figure Microsoft's solution will be to sell an app for your WMC online. This is speculation on my part but I see something like that happening. It seems like everything is moving to mobile computing. I'm not interested in paying more money to enjoy something I already paid for.
As for the replacement of WMC, I believe MS will have it all sent to a cloud. The player app will access the cloud for the play files and you will get slanted advertisements. You will see ads based on your photos, videos and music selections.
Microsoft couldn't pay me to upgrade to Win 10
Hi Gizmo Gang,
Gizmo has been my favorite source for information and freeware for a very long time. Kudos!
Might I suggest an article that tells how to Prevent a Win 10 upgrade and how to remove the KB files that Windows Update presets on your system.
I've learned my lesson with the common piggyback ware from freeware installations but I used to trust MS to only update the OS. The days of blindly clicking update are gone. I have already set Windows update to 'ask me before installing' but do I have to research every single update now? There must be a better way?
The malware included product is Free make video conversion. I found the other software but its misleading I will partially take that back. It says Review to see the others what??? It should say other products or something other than making the user think its a review of that software. It makes itsound like you are downloading or reviewing what is listed like WOT or Kasperaky TDS Killer.
Thanks for the article, great insight. However, I just need to understand something here, I recently downloaded an Android email app called MyMail that comes with in-app ringtones, where do I find the file in which these ringtone files are saved in on my internal memory? I'm using the Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone.
I am with you on incomplete uninstall routines. They annoy me too, and I will search the Registry and file system in order to manually wipe out the vestiges of old installations. Call me compulsive. There is a portable version of Sumatra, downloadable from http://portableapps.com/apps/office/sumatra_pdf_portable, already referenced above by another reader, which gets around that. Obviously it will not help with the differential rendering quality you experience.
My default viewer for well over a year has been PDF-XChange Viewer, link http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer, also previously mentioned and which also has a portable install available. It does not open as quickly as Sumatra, but in my experience it is quicker than Acrobat or Foxit Reader.
Hi MidnightCowboy. Not to be a dunce, but how does one initiate a PM to you? Posting a reply message on this board (which this is) which would not provide the private forum required if you did not want to publicize this donation-required Linux distro?
I have been using Metapad for over a decade, as a Notepad replacement rather than as a serious editor. Have never felt the least desire to change editors, in that limited context.
For most editing of larger files you will want code highlighting and the ability to configure keyboard shortcuts.
For pure load-and-search operations on large files I usually use WinVi (http://www.winvi.de/en/). WinVi also has a Hexadecimal mode.
Will take a look at the most recent incarnation of EmEditor, which I used to use at version 1.xx, because it could hot link http://... text before that was routine, and Glogg.
One thing would-be users should be aware of: Code Lobster is a nice editor, but last time I installed it, during the installation it grabbed the file associations for every text-based file type under the sun, including .txt files themselves, without giving me a choice or even a warning. I consider this exceedingly poor behavior on the part of any installation. I undid those associations and then wrote the company and told them as much.
Do not know if anything has changed since then -- version 5.5.
I tried this several times but after clicking OK and then Yes to the popup question "Do you want to move all of the files frpm the old location to the new location?" I consistently receive the error "Unexpected Error from PerformRedirection - The filename or extension is too long"
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I am lost here. I do not see where 3$ can translate to that password. And I do not see where the various colors come in. Not a good explanation on PasswordCard.org
A very simple process. Outcome was junk.
i'm looking for a cad program (free) to aid me in records keeping of my past work sights mostly parking lots, public roads and highways. Any suggestions?
Having twice in the last two month had the mail in my inbox just completely disappear, I find the endorsement of Mozilla Thunderbird as the best choice quite questionable. A check on the web indicates this is quite a common problem.
Coupled with Mozilla's recent announcement of the cessation of further development of Thunderbird has persuaded me that it's time to move on. So I'm open to suggestions on a reliable free or fee PC based email client. (Which is why I came to this site in the first place).
For those persisting with Thunderbird, I suggest they move the contents of their inbox to local folders on a frequent basis. But with caution.
In fact it was in the process of doing this that I lost my inbox contents. I had sorted just over 100 emails into sender order and had transferred a group to a topic specific local folder when zap!, the rest of the inbox disappeared.
Caveat emptor applies even with freebies!
Excuse me, I am looking for something that can schedule automatic download of web page, and it can loop for certain duration, e.g. start copying a web at everyday morning10am and continue downloading every 10 minutes till 16pm, which of these software can meet this requirement?
Thanks
Once you've installed this app and run it.it asks you to uninstall.why?if your android is infected and encrypted how will you be able to access this app
How do you access the play store if your phone is encrypted
also looked at avast website.i see what you mean about the app and the updates.thanks guys for your help
firefox is stopping the download.dropdown box appearing to allow.is this because its still in beta
I'm running vista.any ideas whyim getting diverted to Microsoft windows 10 from my search bar on Firefox.have not long updated 20 updates for Microsoft.theyre a pain in the ass .Linux looks like the way for me
Doesn't recognise my company name ,will not register my gmail account
Can this be used on Kindle fire
Enjoy your retirementwith your wife, may it be long in health and happiness. I found this site by chance about 15years ago and what a goldmine of info it's been. From freeware to forums and you and the editors. Some businesses could take a leaf out of your book. Amazing and take care
come on people it only takes a few $$$ to keep this the best site on the web,quality freeware and forum for people that are not tech minded like me.learnt a lot from this site its priceless!!!
Gizmo,
I'm brand-spanking-new to this site, and sadly; I'm a brokester. I'm so impressed with the content, and the hard work you all do to maintain it! It gives me hope that I might be able to learn enough to actually USE some of it, to improve my PC and iPad. I simply feel I must participate in some way. I pray that the little bit I give, can help out. I'll buy a cap when I get my next check, maybe be then I'll have worked up enough nerve to try out some freeware!
Thanks for being here, it means the world to many of us! I'll keep you in mind..So glad to have found you!
Sincerely,
Siouxz OOX!
The dangers of these types of programs is very high. Computers users may not be easily categorized but I would offer these general categories; very Knowledgeable, knowledgeable, casual, novice (in terms of computer knowledge). It seem easy enough to say that the this web site and these comments come from knowledgeable computer users, but this group is in the minority. The vast majority of users (probably world wide) probably cannot detect, grasp the nuances and avoid installing OpenCandy and its ilk. Which means that in spite of an intellectual debate that informs us enabling us to make knowledgeable decisions(like this particular discussion) the vast majority of users will unknowingly install Opencandy. How many millions of installations is that? 1,10,100 million or more? I worked on my Grandmother's PC that had slowed to a crawl and hundreds of these types of products infesting her pc, slowing it down and doing who knows what. It is this defenseless group who form the vast majority of users who will end up with this program. They are the prey. I acted in her behalf to warn her, put some protections on her PC and to give some good general advice. I think it is an obligation of the knowledgeable users to act on the behalf of those less capable, think of it as a civic service. This program should be banned because the majority of those who end up with it, were targets and not capable of acting in there own behalf.
I wonder if iWisoft has been abandoned because it hasn't been updated for years now ?
There are some collaboration platforms online that are free for 1 user. They sometimes provide PIM functions.
For my private needs, I use combo of Essential PIM, ToDoList and Efficient Diary.
I just tried 'ClipConverted' to download YouTube audio and got an error message "ClipConverter is not available for videos containing music.'
Will look elsewhere.
Attempted to download and run Freemake Video Downloader on Feb. 14, 2020. One can no longer download files in HD and/or MP3 (AAC only) formats for free. I kept getting a popup to 'upgrade to a paid version' for the ability to use those features.. Bummer!!!
I'll probably stick with 'RD /S /Q %SystemDrive%\windows.old' in an elevated Command Prompt (presuming it's still allowed by 8.1). No waiting for disk scans.
Backup first, of course.
'Blank' is the only way I could stop the ads.
If I chose the 'Classic' setting, the ads were still there, but they were placed at the end. The ads started showing up as I was deleting my previously visited sites.
It's better than most, but I wouldn't rely on it. Go to YouTube and watch 'More fun with ransomeware part 4'.
It's virtually impossible to stay ahead of malware due to security always being at least hours behind new exploits.
A recent (unplugged) disk image/disk clone is still the best defense against ransomeware.
Anything's possible with a delayed attack. One would hope that anyone who creates a disk image would also make sure beforehand that the original image isn't compromised, as there is no ability for devices on opposite sides of the "gap" to communicate - but that discussion is for a different article.
Snappa's website doesn't seem to fully support Pale Moon or Vivaldi (with or without ad blocking) - video won't play on either browser, so it's unlikely that I'll revisit the website. I'll stick with software that's currently working OK.
Perhaps, but I'm not going to circumvent my security for any website that I don't have a pressing need for. I was checking my work email and this looked 'interesting', but if the site developers don't want to support certain configurations, then so be it.
That's one year of a program I didn't have before. One year to see if the program surpasses any freeware or previously purchased software, and/or is worth the going price when the year long trial is over - assuming I play around with it within a year (no video projects at the moment). The free version looks too bare to be of any value as far as evaluating the Pro version goes.
Thanks!
This tool helps you find adjectives for things (nouns) that you're trying to describe. 'Stalwart' is not a noun.
For non-nouns try their sister site: http://relatedwords.org/
I'll probably never use the sunflower wallpaper as a desktop image as is, but it's just begging for some text in a couple of areas, so it's going onto my one of many todo lists.
For use with Pale Moon, open Mozilla's add-on website > search for Ghostery > go to page 2 and scroll down to download/install v.5.4.10 (or earlier).
Thanks! Bookmarked!
If you don't see the '+ Add to Chrome' blue button, you're either not in the Google web store, or you're not accessing the web store with Chrome (or any Chrome fork).
An easy way to tell if it's the latter is if the blue button reads 'Available on Chrome' instead of '+ Add to Chrome'.
After a little research, it's an image of a structure (in Armenia) to break up the force of a raging river.
Personally, I think it looks better in sepia. The metal seems to pop a bit better.
I've been using this add-on with Vivaldi for a bit The only downside I could find is that it doesn't play well with some other add-ons. A simple reinstall will fix it every time though (so far).
Be careful. If the software was installed by the computer manufacturer, these key finders will likely return a one-time bulk installer product code which won't work again. I've been burnt by this more than a few times.
Key finders work fine with a manually inputted product code.
Outside of the exercise links (I'm disabled), its a great list. Thanks Rhiannon, for putting it all together.
Could you please provide a link for Tencent? They quite often give false positives and it's really hard to find where to go to even ask about this kind of thing, especially when it's all in Chinese.
FeedDemon. Why mess around with more cloud based programs? FeedDemon just works great.
Hello.
Can any CVS software (kind of Git, Bazaar, CVS...) be used for the same?
I've being trying all the applications you say in the article and I prefer Alway sync, though is not perfect, I don't like the double scrolling system.
They are not intelligent enough.
I would like some app that show everything as a tree and able to detect not only that something exist in the other folder but also able to detect that a whole subtree/branch/folder with subfolders has been moved to a different place.
Instead of that this applications tell you that something is missing from one place and something is new in some other place but you have to figure out the relations.
regards
Can any of these applications look inside compressed files (rar, zip, cab...)?
Hi.
What free program is able to manage spreadsheets with an unlimited number of rows?
I'm only aware of two [edited out] but they are both commercial.
There are many others, such as Freemake, Any Video Converter and Mediacoder.
Sometimes I use Mediacoder because it lets me to choose frame rates as low as 1 fps. Sometimes this is good to highly compress some tutorials or "still image" videos without loosing resolution.
It has a drawback though, an annoying ad.
One thing to be taken into account is that the fast GPU compression that many programs offer dont's produce a good quality output, even with larger files.
Hello.
What program/settings is the best option to play high quality avi or mkv videos on an old computer (with Windows)?
Now I'm using a old laptop. Potplayer, VLC or mediaplayer work well with movies up to 1000kbps.
But if I try to play anything aboce this or 720p all I get is image problems, interruptions, pixelation and desynchronization, no matter the settings I use (even with lav filters...)
Is there any program able to play 1080p movies in a old computer?
I don't mind not having special effects, perfect image... only need to get a lower resolution image without problems
Hello and thank you for your advises.
I already tried the overlay mixer setting before, and in fact is the best option so far, though not enough for all videos.
I will also try the "reset video" option you suggested. ¿Are you sure that won't need even more resources to make an extra conversion?
It's my girlfriend's laptop, an old Samsung R20, Celeron M dual core 1.7Ghz.
with a Radeon Xpress 1300M.
The dxva setting doesn't make any difference. I guess this card is not powerful enough.
And I don't know why the task manager only shows one core even though the computer is supposed to have 2.
So far the best option I have found is SMPlayer. It allows to skip some frames to allow better synchronization. Does Potplayer (or the LAV filters) have this option too?
regards
What about kaspersky Lite?. It's free and supposed to be good.
Teamviewer is a lifesaver, and they have good customer support. We have several licences, and there is never a day that goes by that it is not used quite a bit.
http://www.howtogeek.com/t/windows/ (includes Linux)
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/
http://www.petri.com/
http://www.theeldergeek.com
http://www.pchell.com/
http://www.myitforum.com
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/index.html
This works fairly well, but I would prefer to download an app that is does this. [commercial software edited] is supposed to be able to do this, but crashes when using a large image, and they have no technical support.
Guys, fix the Donate Link in your email that you sent out regarding donation requests. I was going to click it from within the email, but the link is not set up. Thanks. (Still donating. . .)
First time trying this software hopefully it will be useful.
I'm strongly dissagree, if you have high quality sound system foobar200 is only viable choice because foobar2000 mandates sample-exact seeking for the sake of accurate timing and processing. BTW with that kind of audio system you will be able feel the diference on your own. Free sowtware doesn't mean that it will be play on 10-cent headphones ) musicbee even can't play .iso.wv :( foobarr and AIMP can.
And about AIMP insecurity...Really ? Because it made by russian developer and hosted there :)
for example vanilla winamp can't separate tracks from .flac.cue ) AIMP can ) and new AIMP version (4.0) is really great.
And one feature that i really appreciate - AIMP has built-in-out-of-the-box-one-click ability to record streaming audio, for example internet radio ) with user defined save_format and split_track options. English translate included.
ps. I often use your site for choose some software, and always your ranking was well grounded, but not this time :)
I've told about .iso.wv ) not just .wv
Malwaerebytes says site is a NO GO!
For the UPnp Exposure test, select ShieldsUp from the second gold box on http://www.grc.com/default.htm to go to the ShieldsUp page, then select 'Proceed' then on the next page you should see the gold button a little ways down the page.
My experience was that only the PCs I updated from Windows 8.1 Preview to the final version of Windows 8.1 generated the "Previous Windows Installation(s)" files for cleanup. The PCs updated from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 did not generate any files for cleanup.
I think an overlooked suggestion would be to not to log in to XP as an Administrator.
Create and use a 'User' account, and only use Administrator when required to install a program or run certain programs.
at least haveibeenpwned tells you which breach resulted in your data being compromised, so you know which passwords to change...
Are there any security risks using this add-on or opening up password fields for copy and paste?
Good to know . Thanks very much for the explanation, Rhiannon!
(1) Where's MalwareBytes?! This list was updated December 12, almost 2 months after its long-awaited arrival in Google Play.
(2) You have done an excellent job highlighting apk scanning, privacy features, and various utilities. However, you touch very little on the biggest malware threat of all: those embedded in pdfs and other common files. Many of these apps do not offer real-time scanning of new non-apk downloads. And several—including your new favourite app, 360 Mobile Security—offer no file scanning capabilities at all. At the very least, this should be added to the "con" list. This is a much more critical feature of any antivirus app. While phone finding, RAM monitoring, and backups are wonderful, they are not a necessary component of an anti-malware solution, and there are many excellent free apps available that provide these services. I—amongst others, I imagine—would rather use an app that provides full anti-malware protection and no other features, as opposed to a security "suite" that provides many services but no protection against documents etc. Thankfully, there are quite a few apps that offer this protection, but this list is more or less ignoring this aspect.
i LOVE it! Thank you!
Love it! I had too much fun with the click and relax and the photo editor. Thanks!
I have been running BOINC since 2008. Please educate yourself before making such statements. There are many more projects than SETI@Home. Some have more merit than others. SETI is simply the most well known and has introduced most users to the BOINC platform so is the most often cited. BOINC is open source freeware that has nothing to do with any government. Idle computer time can be used to help find cures for AIDS, cancer, ebola, etc. or help study the orbits and properties of near Earth orbit asteroids, find prime numbers... There are literally dozens of projects to choose from. Not to mention a friendly and active online community with users willing to help with issues far beyond the scope of BOINC itself.
"Please educate yourself...." was in response to crosseyedlemon.Thought the bit about the government made that clear. Others had posted during the interim. I will do my utmost endeavors to spare all such mortification in the future. I do indeed thank Rob for the exposure thus provided for this very worthy software. The decision the contribute to the betterment of all mankind is ones own.
It appears that one must also install software on the PC. Where does one find that?
I want to install 32-bit applications under 64-bit system of Windows-7 O/S, but the applications are not compatible. How can I able to install those applications under 64-bit O/S ? Please help me.
You will want to read this first before installing Sophos Home - https://www.sophos.com/en-us/legal/sophos-group-privacy-policy.aspx#cloud
Snippets:
What personal data do we collect?
We may collect personal data such as your name, company position, address, telephone number, mobile number, fax number, email address, credit card details, age, IP address, and account usernames.
How do you use my personal data?
If you provide personal data to us, we will collect that information and use it for the purposes for which you have provided it and in accordance with this privacy policy.
I heard that this program uses a TON of resources while DiskLED uses like 4MB of RAM, is that true?
Ok, so i have never heard of EMET until this article, my question is are there any downsides to using it? For instance, does it slow down programs? Hog memory? I would think with a tool like this any application that you assign to EMET would have these extra security checks running in the background and hence would take a performance hit. Ideas/thoughts/suggestions?
Please post link? :)
Where is it implied?
Free Download Manager(FDM) was top rated and i was looking to increase my download speed, so I installed it.
In chrome, the Win7 iso download (3.1gb) was varying from 250 -400k/sec download speed, with an estimated time of 4 hours.
FDM was moving at a snails pace of 70kb/sec with an estimated time of 14 hours.
I installed UGet and its running super fast at 1.9M/sec with a total time of 29 minutes.!
Perhaps there's some tweaking that can be done within FDM to improve its performance, but straight out of the box, in my situation, UGet is vastly superior.
Fyi I have Cable Internet 30Mbps service.
Any thoughts on Iobit's SmartDefrag? It has been around for years and has boot defrag options. Please consider for review.
StartMenuX free is excellent, i have my jumplist apps on the left, then 3 columns of additional apps. You can resize the height and width to your exact liking, any number of columns. This is the only Start app that i have seen that is customizable like this.
The only thing it lacks is a backup/restore of settings, but you can copy the registry entry in HKCU_Software to backup/restore.
A very easy way to do this is to run Process Hacker and Rt-Click the explorer.exe process and select "Restart".
Resplendence Registrar is a top RegEditor. I have evaluated numerous ones, and except for the Monitoring feature, OORegEditor is also excellent, with lower resource usage, and i believe merits a look.
Love Gizmo freeware, keep up the Outstanding work, also like the pic of Sunflowers is great, but incorrect, Sunflowers always Face the Sun, not like the pic shows.
Outstanding people at Gizmo's, please donate, keep her fly'n...;0)
This may be old news to some here, but it was news to me today.
WinPatrol has apparently been sold to Ruiware.
According to the WinPatrol site, nothing will change and the new owner says he plans to continue as before.
I was aware Mr. Pytlovany has had some personal issues, I thank him for everything and wish him the best....
SkuterB
I have used this site for a couple years and have been very pleased with it.
Finally registered today with an FYI and a question.
I have used Photoscape for awhile for a couple of its features.
Today it prompted me to download a new version 3.6.5 which I did.
After downloading I scanned the file with my anti-virus and Malwarebytes.
Malwarebytes gave a warning that it contains OpenCandy.
I re-scanned the last version I had downloaded v3.6.2 and it does not contain it, so it appears it has been added recently.
I know there are different views on OpenCandy and I understand that.
(My opinion is I don't look for trouble.)
My question is has anyone installed the newer version and does it give an option to opt-out?
Thanks...
I'll second that mouse53, with 1 clarification, I do understand that freeware creators need, want or hope to make money on their software and I will help them when I can.
It always seemed simple to me, IF an adware or toolbar developer is truly proud of their software, all they have to do is add a little blurb during the freeware installation telling you it is available and what it does and then have an UNchecked box where I can opt-in if I am interested.
Having a hidden or difficult to find box that is already checked and I HAVE to opt-out to avoid is underhanded no matter how you look at it.
IMHO That includes Adobe w/McAfee.
I also appreciate Gizmos giving me a heads-up when a program is infected with un-necessary and probably unwanted add-ons.
I'm confused.
I have been using the installed English version of HxD since 2010 v1.7.7.0
It's the same version that is available now.
I have compared what I downloaded then and what is available now and they are identical.
All the file features still work fine, including the compare feature.
I see no mention of a trial or Pro version on the site.
Also (from the review), I have never had any problem over-writing a file.
After I complete any changes it asks if I want to save them.
If I say no, original file is unchanged.
But I always backup prior to changes just in case.
I tried the portable version today and it works the same.
I have never needed the Disk Editor or RAM Editor, so I cannot comment on them.
This is a great little program. I don't use it a lot,
but when you need something fast & easy, nothing else will do.
Just use VERY carefully.
Unfortunately, more and more sites protect themselves against disposable mail adresses,
The check the domain name of the email adress agianst a list of known disposabel email sites.
That said, these sites are sitll very usefull for the remaining sites
My go-to text editor for years for website editing, script editing, quick and dirty reminders... actually: anything .txt related.
it is fast, simple enough to use it, feature richt enough to keep using it. And portable, if you wish.
AndyR, Thank you for the KB #s, I will check...
I started my Win 7 PC this AM to an icon on the clock task bar to reserve my Win 10 free upgrade. I tried to quickly dismiss it but there is no ready option. So I clicked it and watched the screenplay.
There is nothing that appeals to me at all. I don't like Win8 or 8.1 and I am quite happy with Win 7.
I purchased my PC because it had Win 7.
Part of my updating routine is to always update my software. Now, I can't even trust that.
Is there a way to tell right off, if MS is infecting my PC with updates for Win 10?
v.laurie, First, Thank you for this article!
I use my Win7 WMP extensively. I purposly converted my entire CD collection to electronic and sold my CD player and gave away all my CDs.
I have WMC for my X-Box 360. The thought of having to use WinAmp is not appealing to me. I want my WMC.
Since it seems the trend is pushing toward cloud computing I figure Microsoft's solution will be to sell an app for your WMC online. This is speculation on my part but I see something like that happening. It seems like everything is moving to mobile computing. I'm not interested in paying more money to enjoy something I already paid for.
As for the replacement of WMC, I believe MS will have it all sent to a cloud. The player app will access the cloud for the play files and you will get slanted advertisements. You will see ads based on your photos, videos and music selections.
Microsoft couldn't pay me to upgrade to Win 10
Hi Gizmo Gang,
Gizmo has been my favorite source for information and freeware for a very long time. Kudos!
Might I suggest an article that tells how to Prevent a Win 10 upgrade and how to remove the KB files that Windows Update presets on your system.
I've learned my lesson with the common piggyback ware from freeware installations but I used to trust MS to only update the OS. The days of blindly clicking update are gone. I have already set Windows update to 'ask me before installing' but do I have to research every single update now? There must be a better way?
For those of you who want to remove OpenCandy from Axcrypt:
Extract the Axcrypt Installer with OpenCandy Offer using 7-Zip.
Open the extracted folder and delete $PLUGINSDIR.
This should remove the OpenCandy junk from the installer.
Works real nice. I like it. Easy to upload pages,edit append and save. Thanks for a nice product.
www.topfreebooks.org provides freely downloadable eBooks, documents courses and lecture notes found all over the internet.
The malware included product is Free make video conversion. I found the other software but its misleading I will partially take that back. It says Review to see the others what??? It should say other products or something other than making the user think its a review of that software. It makes itsound like you are downloading or reviewing what is listed like WOT or Kasperaky TDS Killer.
Hello,
Thanks for the article, great insight. However, I just need to understand something here, I recently downloaded an Android email app called MyMail that comes with in-app ringtones, where do I find the file in which these ringtone files are saved in on my internal memory? I'm using the Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone.
Thanks
I am with you on incomplete uninstall routines. They annoy me too, and I will search the Registry and file system in order to manually wipe out the vestiges of old installations. Call me compulsive. There is a portable version of Sumatra, downloadable from http://portableapps.com/apps/office/sumatra_pdf_portable, already referenced above by another reader, which gets around that. Obviously it will not help with the differential rendering quality you experience.
My default viewer for well over a year has been PDF-XChange Viewer, link http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer, also previously mentioned and which also has a portable install available. It does not open as quickly as Sumatra, but in my experience it is quicker than Acrobat or Foxit Reader.
Hi MidnightCowboy. Not to be a dunce, but how does one initiate a PM to you? Posting a reply message on this board (which this is) which would not provide the private forum required if you did not want to publicize this donation-required Linux distro?
I have been using Metapad for over a decade, as a Notepad replacement rather than as a serious editor. Have never felt the least desire to change editors, in that limited context.
For most editing of larger files you will want code highlighting and the ability to configure keyboard shortcuts.
For pure load-and-search operations on large files I usually use WinVi (http://www.winvi.de/en/). WinVi also has a Hexadecimal mode.
Will take a look at the most recent incarnation of EmEditor, which I used to use at version 1.xx, because it could hot link http://... text before that was routine, and Glogg.
One thing would-be users should be aware of: Code Lobster is a nice editor, but last time I installed it, during the installation it grabbed the file associations for every text-based file type under the sun, including .txt files themselves, without giving me a choice or even a warning. I consider this exceedingly poor behavior on the part of any installation. I undid those associations and then wrote the company and told them as much.
Do not know if anything has changed since then -- version 5.5.
cool site
So, doesn't Windows Defender update itself with every "Full" scan? And why would you have Defender and NOT schedule a Full scan every night?
I tried this several times but after clicking OK and then Yes to the popup question "Do you want to move all of the files frpm the old location to the new location?" I consistently receive the error "Unexpected Error from PerformRedirection - The filename or extension is too long"
Help and thank you!
Where can I download the 64 bit version?
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