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Timboth Avira and AVG currently link to the Avira page.

 

Thanks for the tipsbut what happened to the Firewall section?

 

Internet Tools sectionsubcategory Firewalls.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/firewalls.html

 

Thanksbut " a list of the absolute best5 star rated," to make choosing easier for the non-geeksas per the other categories here? I could be wrongbut doesn't a Firewall deserve at least as much consideration as a text-editor?

 

I don't have access to the download stats but I'd guess that firewalls are way down the most popular list since native firewalls have improved a lot in the last few yearsmost users are now behind NAT routers and many suites incorporating firewalls are now available or supplied by ISPs.

Just because a full category isn't there now doesn't mean those downloads aren't availablesearch still works fine and times have changed - MG's ain't gonna stand still :major

 

Look at the recommendations in the Firewalls section here:
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=44525

 

greattks for the tips!

 

Major Attitudethat is a major league list you presented..

I am bookmarking it and will send it off for others not in the know..

Tanks again!

 

The list is here and CCleaner is on it.

 

MajorSircould you please
elaborate..Thanks in advance.

 

Thanks TimCCleaner has been one of my staples for years so I checked out your video and have now decided to give Wise Cleaner a run
I have three computerseach with 500GB SSDs and two of them are always a bit tight for space so if this is as good as you say then this will be a cheap fix to defer buying 1TB SSDs :-D

BTW nice video...... clear and concise :cool

Cheers
joffa:major

 

Howdy Tim,
Jeez to say I was surprised is an understatement :-D
My workstation got a bit over 14GB back which is nothing to be sneezed at but the real shock was the family multimedia PC. The multimedia PC is a really high spec. custom water cooled overclocked i7 extreme that the kids also use for gaming. Remember LAN parties..... well we load up to 4 virtual machines and the kids have a LAN party with their friends on the one computer.
When I ran Wise Cleaner on the multimedia pc it took a bit longer (still only about 10 minutes) and jeepers creepers it cleared out nearly 60GB of crap on the first pass. Then I went to advanced clean and got another 6GB back. All up it cleared just short of 66GB and this is a worthwhile saving. Because it is only the multimedia pc I just let it clean everything without even checking and after the clean everything still seems to work :-D

My verdict
I just used the standard settings as installed and it worked flawlessly. It surprised me with its speed too as the work station took just under 5 minutes and the multimedia pc took just on 10 minutes. Previously when running CCleaner it typically only found about half of the crap so for me Wise Cleaner is a real winner :cool

BTW I did check prior to deleting any of the files on my workstation and it might have uncovered a small OS problem. About one third of the files deleted were "~" files indicating a temporary currently open file that should be deleted when the program that created it closes but for some reason these have remained on the HDD. Further checking needed:major

 

Just saying I love the Top Freeware Picks! It is the first place I look for software. Thank you for providing such a useful informative guide for software.

 

One thing everyone that is considering on purchasing Wise 365 that they DON'T tell you is that they automatically
charge your credit card. I had notified them 2 months prior that I was cancelling it and I uninstalled the program.
They got a email that my renewal was done and I was charged. Lucky for me I had it hit my Paypal account and they are
crediting me and told me that they see this all the time. So beware

 

Honestly to be fair two weeks is short notice to cancel something that is auto billed to a credit card. You have to take into consideration billing cycles vary. Often it takes two billing cycles to get something removed from a credit card. Can be frustrating yesbut it is what it is not exclusive to Wise Care.

 

It depends on the legal jurisdiction of the card issuer but it is always best advice to notify the card issuer at the same time as notifying the company that holds the continuous payment authority.
In EU jurisdiction none of that is even necessary (though for an easy life it is still worth doing) since a telephone call to the card issuer up to the close of normal business on the day before the payment is due is sufficient.
Two weeks is enough time for any billing company to stop a payment authority requestand if they don't either they or the card issuer must make a refund.

 

In theory it should be but does not always happen. At least that had been my experience.

 

Very quickand cleared round 2gb for meon top of advanced system care tools. Video was very usefuland intuitive- thanks

 

wise disk cleaner is good

 

I downloaded bluescreenview but when I tried to uzip the file it opens an already installed programme on my machine called Quo2 which is a map reading/display prog.

 

UPDATE
NOW SOLVEDI ran it from the download folder direct and it worked fine.
Does not show any bluescreen crashes that I have had though so more investigatiing at this end needed.

 

Greatthanks for the tips

 

Thanks A Lot