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Free Online Virus Scanners

• Trend Micro HouseCall
• Panda ActiveScan
• Windows Live OneCare
• VirusTotal (Allows the user to upload a file to be scanned)

Using Disk Cleanup to Recover Hard Disk Drive Space

1. Open My Computer

2. Locate the hard drive you would like to cleanup. Most likely this will be C:

3. Right-click on the hard drive icon and click on Properties

4. Click on the Disk Cleanup button (You may have to wait for a couple minutes while Windows analyzes your system)

5. You will be presented with a list of Files to delete. Check all checkboxes except the ‘Compress old Files’ option

6. Click on OK

Setting Up uTorrent

1. Download & Install uTorrent

2. Start the uTorrent application

3. You must ensure that the port uTorrent runs on (such as 64596) is not blocked by any Firewall application. If you use Windows Firewall or another program, you must allow access to this port. To test if the port on your computer needs to be opened, go to Options->Speed Guide

4. Click on the Test if port is forwarded properly button

5.  Your web browser will open and you will either see a green “OK” or a red “ERROR”. If you get an ERROR, you must check your firewall to ensure this port is not blocked. In addition, if you access the internet through a router, you will need to use the “Port forwarding” feature to forward all uTorrent traffic to your computer. Please check your router manual for instructions on how to do this.

6. Thats it! When you click on .torrent files now, it will automatically open in uTorrent and begin downloading

Using VLC Media Player to watch DVDs

1. Download and install VLC media player
2. Insert your DVD movie into the drive
3. Run it by going to Start->Programs->VideoLAN->VLC media player
4. Choose File->Open Disc
5. Ensure the Device name is correct
6. Click on OK

MWSnap makes it a breeze to take screenshots of anything in Windows. There are several types of captures you can do:

• Fixed rectangle
• Any rectangle area
• A window or menu
• Full desktop

Here are a list of features taken from their website:

• 5 snapping modes.
• Support for BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG and GIF formats, with selected color depth and quality settings.
• System-wide hotkeys.
• Clipboard copy/paste.
• Printing.
• Auto-saving, auto-printing.
• Auto-start with Windows.
• Minimizing to system tray.
• An auto-extending list of fixed sizes, perfect for snapping images for icons and glyphs.
• A zoom tool for magnifying selected parts of the screen.
• A ruler tool for measuring screen objects lengths.
• A color picker showing screen colors with separated RGB parts.
• Fast picture viewer.
• Adding frames and mouse pointer images.
• Multilevel configurable undo and redo.
• Multilingual versions.
• Configurable user interface.
• And more…

If you need a screen capture program more powerful than the ‘Print Screen’, but dont want to download a bloaty, trial software like SnagIt, be sure to give MWSnap a try! Click here to download.

Option #1 (Windows 2K/XP/Vista/7)

1. Download MagicDisc which is a freeware, ad-free, spyware-free software by clicking here.
2. Install this software and you will now see a icon in your system tray (bottom-right corner of Windows)
3. Right-click on the icon and choose Virtual CD/DVD-ROM -> E: No Media -> Mount… (Note: On your system E: may be substituted with another letter)
4. An Open file dialog will now open, choose the image file you would like to mount and click OK
5. Thats it! You can now access the files by navigating to the drive letter in Windows Explorer

Option #2 (Windows XP and .ISO Only)

1. Download Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel from Microsoft by clicking here.
2. Run the downloaded file and extract the files into a folder (e.g. c:\vcd)
3. Copy VCdRom.sys to your %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder (e.g. c:\windows\system32\drivers)
4. Run VCdControlTool.exe
5. Click Driver control
6. If the Install Driver button is available, click it. Navigate to the %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder, select VCdRom.sys, and click Open.
7. Click Start
8. Click OK
9. Click Add Drive to add a drive to the drive list. Ensure that the drive added is not a local drive. If it is, continue to click Add Drive until an unused drive letter is available.
10. Select an unused drive letter from the drive list and click Mount
11. Navigate to the image file, select it, and click OK

You may now use the drive letter as if it were a local CD-ROM device. When you are finished you may unmount, stop, and remove the driver from memory using the driver control

Windows XP

1. Go to Start / Search / For Files or Folders
2. Select the search option All Files and Folders
   
3. Enter *.* in the file name search box
4. Select the hard drive(s) you would like to search
5. (Optional) Select the What size is it? option and choose Large
6. Click the Search button
7. Click the Size column to sort the results

Linux/Unix

Running the command below on a Linux/Unix machine (or Cygwin) will return the top 10 largest files recursively from the current path

find . -printf '%s %pn'|sort -nr|head