Well for Starters to Keep your PC as healthy as, A few things will help

All these programs you should be able to get from http://www.filehippo.com

These are from the "Most popular downloads" on FileHippo

1/ AVG

Well I use AVG, But there are alot to choose from
AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product

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2/ Ccleaner

CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space.

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3/ MalwareBytes

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware can detect and remove malware that even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware monitors every process and stops malicious processes before they even start.

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4/ Recuva

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer

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5/ FireFox

If you want something other than Internet Explorer
The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups.

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/6 Thunderbird

Thunderbird is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser.

Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.

* Full-Featured Email
* Junk Mail Filters
* Anti-Phishing Protection
* Advanced Security
* Automatic Updates

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/7 Seamonkey

SeaMonkey is a web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" and have it stable enough for corporate use.


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/8 VLC Media Player

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

* It is a free cross-platform media player
* It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
* It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features
(video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)

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/9 Dial-A-Fix

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Another GREAT Tool to play with. Is Hiren Boot Disk!

(Though, You really need to 'look' hard to find it.)

But once found, It is truely a great tool in a CD Rom

Well Here is Hirens CD

This along with CCleaner are the tools i use on a regular basis, both free and both work real well

http://www.digitalsupporttech.com/en-us/download.htm

I know this is an old thread but.............

Thanks for the tip about Hiren's Boot CD. It's new to me. Their site is at
The current version is 14.0 and the screenshots page at their site shows the vast array of tools included.

There is also a comprehensive guide to making it boot from a USB drive, along with DL links for the tools required to do it at
I've grabbed all the files and might try to make the USB version tonight if I have time.

Cheers,
Michael.

Edit:
Made the USB bootable drive earlier. Using Hiren's instructions and mounting the program's ISO rather than burning it, it took 5-10 minutes. Have had a quick look over the various tools and it's a very impressive package. The "Mini Windows XP" app will probably see my CD version of BartXP redundant. For what its worth, BartPE is an amazing tool in itself and has saved me more times than I can recall.