Category Archives: Free

McAfee VirusScan Plus Free one year Subscription

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Nerd

McAfee is offering a free one-year subscription for its VirusScan Plus product. If your antivirus software is expiring soon or you want to try an alternative, then the price is definitely right. The offer expires December 31, 2008. A firewall … Continue reading →

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Prevent Windows From Shutting Down with Shutdown Guard

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Nerd

We’ve all been there… you go to bed, leaving some programs open – maybe some of them unsaved documents.  The next morning you scream in agony because your computer was restarted from your friendly neighborhood automatic update service! Now, you … Continue reading →

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FREE Codeweaver Crossover

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Nerd

Tuesday, Oct 28, 2008 Codeweaver is giving away Crossover Mac Pro, Games Mac, Linux Pro and Games Linux for FREE!!!!  Their servers are getting hammered, so they have put up a signup page for today’s promo: ** NOTE:  you must … Continue reading →

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Replace Vista’s Annoying UAC with Norton UAC (Beta)

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Nerd

Vista’s UAC can be annoying, and although I’ve shared with you how to make it less annoying, Norton (Symantec) has come up with a replacement UAC that is makes it much better! With one BIG feature – “Don’t ask me … Continue reading →

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Backup all your Drivers with Double Driver

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Nerd

If you have ever had to reinstall Windows, you know what a pain it can sometimes be to find drivers.  There always seems to be a driver that is hard to find.  Double Driver, is a nice little utility that … Continue reading →

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Free Wallpaper from MSN Wallpaper

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Nerd

New from MSN!  100′s of free Windows Desktop Wallpapers for download. Over 100 Wallpapers Crop, rotate and resize your images. Add text and speech bubbles to create your own wallpapers Set you wallpaper by time or create a slide show … Continue reading →

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By Request: Cleaning your Registry – How and Why?

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Nerd

The Windows Registry.  Most people cringe when they hear this, or are afraid of even messing with it, until they see that ad on the Internet claiming that their computer is slow, and they need to buy their registry cleaner!  … Continue reading →

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