The Best Free Software from PCMagazine 11

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Utilities

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Absolute Uninstaller
www.glarysoft.com
Windows Replace the Add/Remove Programs control panel in XP to get batch uninstalls and clear out leftovers that Windows frequently misses when uninstalling.

CCleaner
www.ccleaner.com
Windows The extra C is for crap, and that's what CCleaner gets rid of: all the detritus left behind in the course of using Windows.

CoolMon
www.coolmon.org
WindowsCoolMon displays all of your system's vital statistics, including use of your CPU, RAM, and hard drives, internal PC temperature, and more.

Defraggler
www.defraggler.com
Windows Defragment your entire hard drive-or just one heavily fragmented file at a time.

DriverView
www.nirsoft.net
Windows DriverView lists every single device driver running on your system, with extra info on each.

Eraser
www.heidi.ie/eraser
WindowsShredders are popular in the office, so why not have the digital equivalent? Eraser adds a right-click menu that will do away with a file or folder forever.

FileZilla
www.filezilla-project.org
Windows | MacOS | Linux Download this FTP client for accessing multiple sites or to use as an FTP server. In both cases, FileZilla has convenient drag-and-drop support.

Glary Utilities
www.glaryutilities.com
Windows Glary offers a ton of utilities for cleaning, optimizing, and securing Windows in one package.

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc
WindowsInstall anything-DOS, OS/2, or any earlier version of Windows-as a virtual machine. It'll run in a separate window on your Vista or XP desktop.
Read the full review of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.

SandBoxie
www.sandboxie.com
Web Place a layer of "transient storage"-a sandbox-between your applications and your hard disk to stay safe.

SecureZIP
www.securezip.com
Windows Compress and decompress files on the fly, even in e-mail through Outlook integration, and encrypt archives as desired.

Task Killer
www.rsdsoft.com
Windows Stop any Windows process dead; this is handy for clearing frozen applications.

TinkerTool
www.bresink.com
MacOS Get access to additional preference settings in Mac OS X to turn on hidden features.

Uniblue ProcessScanner
www.processlibrary.com
Windows | Web You can do the Ctrl-Alt-Delete salute in Windows to see what's bogging down your PC, but can you understand the results? ProcessScanner, coupled with the online Process Library, provides extra information on each process (like whether it autostarts or not, and who makes the software in question), and even lists the security risk to your system for running it.

Thanks to: PC Magazine.

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