Windows Repair and Tech Support Software

Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah!!!

I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and to my Jewish friends, I extend my warmest  Chanukah greetings. The God that our two faithsserve is the true God and I want to include both Jewish and Christian faiths in this special time of year. God is Good!

Tim

written by Tim \\ tags: Christian, Holy Days, Not Computer Related

Piriform’s Recuva finds and recovers files that were deleted from your computer’s hard drive, digital camera memory cards and MP3 players.

Description: Piriform makes some great software (including ccleaner) and I have used it on many computers. I’ve never had anything from Piriform crash, freeze, or act unreliably. Recuva has an interface that is simple to use. All you have to do is use the wizard that first shows up when you open the program.

Compatibility: Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and XP 64, 2003, Vista 32 and 64

Necessary Info: Here’s how you use it:

1. Download and install Recuva on your computer.
2. Open the program and at the first screen click “Next”.
3. Choose the type of files you want to recover and click “Next”.
4. Choose where you want to look for the missing files and click “Next”.
5. Click “Next”. It will now start scanning in 2 stages.
6. When it has completed the scan, you will be presented with the files that can be recovered.
7. Click in the check-box of the files that you want to recover and click “Recover”.
8. It will now ask you where you want to recover the file to.You should use another drive to recover the files to because if you write them to the same drive, you could rewrite over some of the files that you want to recover.
9. Choose your location and click “Ok”. Recuva will now restore your files to the location that you specified.

To go backwards just a bit… Once you have the list of files, you can sort the files by name, path (the file’s original location), when it was last modified, the file’s size or it’s state (how likely it is to be fully recovered). This last one, the file’s state, is extremely important. You can easily see how likely you are to get your file back. Recuva has  4 “State” listings, Unrecoverable, Very Poor, Poor, and Excellent. If you only want to see the files with an excellent chance of recovey, click on “State” and scroll towards the top.

Here are some of Recuva’s features as listed on filehippo.com.

• Easy to use filter for results based on file name/type
• Simple Windows like interface with List and Tree view
• Can be run from a USB thumb drive
• Restores all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything.
• Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems
• Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.)
• Restores files from external ZIP drives , Firewire and USB Hard drives
• It’s fast, tiny and takes seconds to run!

PROs: It recovers your deleted files, is easy to use and does it for free.

CONs: None in my experience.

Rating:

Recuva: Download free software HERE.

Thanks,
Tim

written by Tim \\ tags: 5 Thumbs-Up, Free Software, Hard Drive, Tech Support Software

I am having my second Blog Carnival on December 28th. If you blog about free software, I would love to have you join it. You can join by reading about our blog carnival here.

Please take note. Blogs about hacks, cracks, and warez, or not about free software, will be excluded.

Tim

written by Tim

After way too many days without a post, I feel that I need to change my blog topic so that it is more geared towards my personal interests. I really want to post often but if I don’t have the interest, I just won’t do it and since I canceled my test of spyware blockers, I just haven’t wanted to post much.

I love fixing computers (it’s what I do for a living) and what I want to review in this blog is free software that facilitates tech support and fixing Microsoft Windows PCs. I will also be blogging about security security products but my main focus will be on tech support software and Windows repair software.

You won’t find any Linux or Mac software here unless there are also Windows versions.

Thank you.

Tim

written by Tim \\ tags: My Thoughts

I want to thank everyone who encouraged me on this project but I have to end my quest here.

Being a Christian man, I need to flee temptation wherever I find it. And as many of us know, many of the websites that have spyware on them are explicitly adult sites. I didn’t think this would be a problem for me as I was task oriented in getting this finished. Well, I was wrong. I found myself being tempted in manners that are truly unbecoming a Christian and I do not want this temptation.

I truly hope that someone, with more willpower than I, have decides to pick up this task and do a truly honest test of the spyware blockers that are available today.

written by Tim \\ tags: Christian, Spyware Blockers