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Wed
14
Apr
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'TinyMe', and 'Disk Space Fan'

Tiny Me TinyMe is a minimalist distribution of the Linux operating system aimed at making your computing experience as bloat- and lag-free as possible, while giving you an up-to-date operating system. This is perfect for those of you who using older ... computers that are not fast enough to run the latest edition of MS Windows, or who want a minimal Linux-based environment. http://tinymelinux.com Disk Space Fan Disk Space Fan is a freeware and it is a nice disk space analysis tool for Windows. It helps you to free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. It displays disk ... (view more)

Thu
10
Sep
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New 'Fan Check' Malware Infests Google, Yahoo Search

The latest case of malware infestation is once again targeting Facebook , this time masquerading as a virus removal kit designed to rid the computer world of a bogus "Fan Check" bug. Fan Check: Valid App, but 'Bug' is Bogus While the Fan Check "bug" ... does not really exist, Fan Check is in fact a valid Facebook application used on Facebook.com. The purpose of the Fan Check application is to rank friends based on how often they interact with your Facebook pages. (Source: facebook.com ). The new malware, however, is rather devious because it pretends to defend against a made-up virus, ... (view more)

Fri
12
Oct
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'Smooth Agent', and 'Speed Fan'

Smooth Agent SmoothAgent is a desktop assistant that allows a group of users to receive dedicated broadcasted information. It uses alpha blending techniques to display neat graphics with transparency effects. New information can be distributed by ... any http server (website) http://www.donationcoders.com/ Speed Fan If you need a tool that can change your computer's fan speeds, read the temperatures of your motherboard and your hard disk, read voltages and fan speeds and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or SCSI attributes, then you came to the right place. SpeedFan is the ... (view more)

Fri
06
Oct
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'Speed Fan', and 'Hssvss'

Speed Fan SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk ... temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB (Front Side Bus) on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is an hardware monitor software that can access digital temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can change fan speeds (depending on ... (view more)

Thu
14
Oct
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Computer is making strange noises?

Infopackets Reader Jim L. writes: " Although only two and a half years old, my hard drive is starting to make very strange noises, especially at startup, which sometimes dissipate after having run for a while, but not always. I'm extremely concerned ... that if I don't transfer everything to a new hard drive soon that I will loose it all. I remember that you had recommended a program that would allow easy transfer of data from one hard drive to the other. Will this program transfer my OS (Windows 2000 & Office 2000) and personal data as well? My hard drive is portioned into C and D ... (view more)

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