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Recommended Free Utilities

Meeting Date

Person Recommending

Function

Name and URL

Apr 7, 2011

Dick Curry

PC Magazine once again has published its list of the Best Free Software for the Year (2011).  They also re-examine their last year’s favorites.  The list, which includes over 200 free products, is primarily productivity tools for Windows users.  Be sure to check out the “System Utilities” and the “Anti-Malware” links.

PC Magazine Favorite Utilities for 2011

Apr 15, 2010

Neil Schmidt

Converts any document to Adobe PDF format

PrimoPDF

Mar 18, 2010

Dick Curry

Identifies programs on your computer that may be malware

Identifies programs running and those in your start menu.

System optimization and cleaning & defragmenting

Disk Cleaner, Registry Cleaner and Tracks Eraser

Identify programs that are out of date on your computer

Registry Cleaner

FreeFixer

Sysinternals Utilities

Ccleaner and DeFraggler

Glary Utilities

Secunia PSI

RegSupreme Pro

Feb 18, 2010

Neil Schmidt

CNET’s “7 Essential (free) PC Software for Your New Computer”:

Anti-Virus

IM Client

Word, Excel and Powerpoint

Media Player

Graphics Editor

Anti-Spyware

CNET_Video

AVG Anti-Virus

Pidgin

OpenOffice

VLC Media Player

Paint.net

HijackThis

Feb 18, 2010

Dean Steichen

Anti Malware

Registry Cleaner

Partition Manager

Anti Virus

Partition Manager

Malwarebytes

Ccleaner

Partition Wizard

Avast

Easeus

Feb 18, 2010

Phil Goff

Computer System Analysis

Anti Spyware

Anti Spyware

Belarc Advisor

Spybot Search & Destroy

Ad-Aware