Everything needs a tune up: cars, pianos - even your computer! Here are ten ways for you to tune up your PC to help keep it running smoothly and efficiently. Keep your PC up to date One of the best things you can do to protect your PC is also one of the easiest: Make sure you are set up to get automatic updates from Microsoft. If you use Windows and other Microsoft software, such as Microsoft Office or Windows Live Essentials, then you should use the Microsoft Update service. You'll also get notices about new Microsoft software that you can download for free. Performance Next, you should "look under your PC's hood" to see how efficiently your computer is operating. To check your PC's performance in Windows 7, click the Start button, type Performance in the Search box, and then choose Performance Information and Tools in the search results.

Active SMART is hard disk diagnostics, monitoring and failure prediction software. It uses S.M.A.R.T. techology to predict possible hard-drive failure. Protect your data from a sudden hard drive failure. ActiveSMART is a realtime hard drive health status monitor. It utilizes the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks. Its main goal is timely detecting and anticipating any problems, occurring with the hard drive, before the danger of the data loss appears. Normally, the hard disk errors happen unexpectedly. How much would the hard disk information loss cost you? Does your hard drive - the heart of your PC, and storage of all your data - feels healthy? Save your system from a hard drive failure with ActiveSMART. ActiveSMART is a realtime hard drive health status monitor. It utilizes the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks. Its main goal is timely detecting and anticipating any problems, occurring with the hard drive, before the danger of the data loss appears.

Get 2 GB of full featured Online Backup for free. Features include Automatic Backup, True Archiving, Versioning, Continuous Backup, Mapped Drive Backup and more. Features: Continuous Data Protection (CDP). IDrive automatically recognizes the modified parts of file(s)/folder(s) and backs them up every 10 minutes, thus offering hands-free backup of data. more... Open/Locked File Backup. Performs reliable backups of open/locked files like Outlook files (.pst), QuickBooks, MS-Excel and so on. IDrive Explorer: IDrive Explorer offers a 'virtual drive' view of your account to access and restore backed up data. You can drag-n-drop files for restore from your online drive to the local system. Web Based Backup Management. Retrieve data from any location...

Drive Blocker is a software program for Windows XP computers that allows your computer to block removable drives to prevent people from using any removable drives or media, such as flash drives (sometimes called thumb drives), CD's, or floppy drives on your computer. A password (selected by you when you install Drive Blocker) is required in order to reactivate the removable drives. Once Drive Blocker is installed, any removable drives that are connected to the computer will be immediately disabled when Windows starts. If anyone tries to insert a disk into a CD drive or floppy drive, that drive will be disabled. To access a removable drive, you must view the main Drive Blocker screen by clicking on the Drive Blocker icon on the system tray and then input a password (selected by you when you install Drive Blocker) BEFORE you connect the removable drive or insert a disk. You can then access the removable drives freely until you lock the removable drives again using Drive Blocker.

Active Boot Disk (DOS Edition) is a bootable DOS-based LiveCD for system recovery purposes. Data Recovery, Password Reset, Data Backup & Disk Cleaner. Active Boot Disk Professional combines six powerful tools that let you recover your lost data, reset Windows passwords, make computer system backups and securely erase data. Active Boot Disk is used from a bootable CD-ROM to start the PC. Active Boot Disk contains the following products: * Active UNERASER * Active Partition Recovery * Active KillDisk * Active Disk Image * Active NTFS Reader * Active Password Changer DOS NTFS floppy boot disk to access NTFS partitions in Windows XP 2000 or NT How to make DOS boot disk to access NTFS partitions in Windows ? 1. Download the self-extracting Bootable Floppy Disk Creator for NTFS Reader. 2. Insert floppy disk and run NtfsFloppySetup.exe 3. Follow the instructions on the screen To access NTFS drives from DOS : 1. Reboot your computer from a new boot disk. 2. The program (ReadNTFS.exe) will start automatically from autoexec.bat Note: You can use NTFSDOS boot disk to access NTFS drives in Windows 98 95 and 3.1. This is a DOS program, but can be run from Windows.

USB FireWall blocks all virus and other wilful programs that try to spread in your system when an USB device is inserted. The application runs in background task and alerts you immediately in case of try of intrusion. You can stop the program and delete the file associated with. USB FireWall doesn't need any virus definition update. USB FireWall can too clean your hard disk partition from auto launched application. USB FireWall is an application which protects you from all malicious programs which try to launch itself as soon as an USB device is inserted. It will inform you if ever a such program exists in your USB peripherals. You can remove the malicious file and the file autorun.inf associated with just one click. As soon as USB FireWall is launching, it works in background task, its window is shown only when one program tries to launch out automatically from an USB peripheral. USB FireWall is a freeware and its functionality is limited, if ever the malicious program is already present in your system, it tries to stop it but a patch or an Antivirus program is much more adapted to this kind of problem. USB FireWall can too clean all your partitions for auto launched Application from partition by deleting autorun.inf file and its associated application.

SDExplorer (formerly SkyDrive Explorer) free, easy-to-use, very powerful shell extension for Windows Explorer. Work with documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive service using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer. Looking for a fast and convenient way to work with your files stored using Microsoft's SkyDrive service? You're on the right track! SDExplorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SDExplorer you can perform all everyday operations with your documents on Microsoft Live SkyDrive using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer itself. Moreover, you don't need to install and configure any additional programs or ActiveX components. SDExplorer will take care of communicating with the online storage all by itself. Why do you need SDExplorer * If you want to make your work with SkyDrive more efficient; * If you are tired of the inconvenient and complex web interface for Microsoft Live SkyDrive. * If you want to work with your cloud storage files quickly; * If you want the data on your SkyDrive account to always be at your fingertips.

DriveImage XML is an easy to use backup and restore program for Windows XP and Vista. Part of Runtime's Data Recovery Software products. Product Highlights * Backup logical drives and partitions to image files * Browse images, view and extract files * Restore images to the same or a different drive * Copy directly from drive to drive * Schedule automatic backups * Run DriveImage from WinPE boot CD-ROM Image and Backup logical Drives and Partitions DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools. Never again be stuck with a useless backup! Restore images to drives without having to reboot. DriveImage XML is now faster than ever, offering two different compression levels. DriveImage XML runs under Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista and Windows 7 only. The program will backup, image and restore drives formatted with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS.

Intech Software Corporation is proud to offer the ultimate utility suite for those of you who love MacOS X: the all new SpeedTools Utilities, offered exclusively for MacOS X. See the included utilities... The SpeedTools Utilities consist of a suite of utilities elegantly managed by a single application which controls the launching, documentation and version control of each individual component utility. An easy-to-use installation and removal application is provided to make installation a snap, while still providing the power to allow you to create a customized SpeedTools component set. The SpeedTools Utilities offers a diverse collection of performance minded utilities, some even providing industry-first functionality. Plus, the SpeedTools Utilities is covered by another industry-first: Free updates for the life of the product! So, whether you're looking for a rock-solid disk defrag utility or need to protect your critical data with a powerful backup tool - look no further, SpeedTools Utilities provides the power and flexibility you've been waiting for!

Acronis True Image WD Edition Software helps you to completely clone your current system drive onto your new WD hard drive. Cloning makes an exact copy of your old system drive on your new WD hard drive, including the operating system, applications, data, preferences, and email settings. Everything will be present and operate exactly as it did on your old hard drive. Acronis True Image WD Edition now supports WD Advanced Format Drives and ensures that all partitions are optimally aligned. Key Features of Acronis True Image WD Edition Software: * Drive Cloning - Copies the source drive to a new WD drive, leaving all data on the source drive. * Drive Migration - Erase the source drive after the new WD drive has been imaged. * Drive Deployment - Enables users to prepare a WD drive so that selected folders or partitions can be excluded from the destination image. * Drive Image Backup - The long-term usage of the Drive Kit software will be to provide full drive image backups of a source drive at any time. Backup drive images will be stored as a file, which can be copied to any direct attached drive, network attached storage drive or optical media (CD/DVD). * Drive Image Recovery - The Recovery Manager enables users to restore a drive image from a direct or network attached drive. The Recovery Manager can also either erase just a portion of the drive to be used for the restored drive image, or all of the previous OS. * Create a Bootable Standalone Recovery Manager - With the Drive Kit software, users can create a bootable ISO image file, which contains the WD Drive Kit Standalone Recovery Manager software. * Recover a Drive Image from the Bootable Recovery Manager Software - The bootable Standalone Recovery Manager enables users to recover a drive image from either a CD/DVD drive, a direct attached drive, or a network attached drive. * Download the Data Lifeguard Tools software (Acronis True Image WD Edition and user manual and the WD diagnostic tool) and follow the instructions provided to complete the installation.