4 Overlooked Resources to Help You Solve Windows Problems
Contrary to prevailing opinion, it’s not hard to keep a Windows system running properly. And you don’t have to be an IT pro to do it. Sure you have to be careful surfing the web, keep your software updated (Windows and third-party apps), and only install applications from reputable sources, but you should do all of those things no matter what type of device you’re using.
This list of resources isn’t specific to any particular version of Windows. Instead, the goal is to highlight resources that can help you have a better experience with any Windows version. I’ve had the pleasure of using each of these resources since they first staked their claim online; in one case, I’ve been an avid reader of the site for well over ten years! Without further ado, here are four resources that will help you fix almost any problem that rears its blue-screen-of-death-head. Enjoy!
The Story Behind the OpenCandy and Microsoft Adware Debacle
I’d like to take a moment to update our partners, consumers and other interested parties on a situation that has consumed the vast majority of our small company’s attention lately.
A few weeks ago, on February 12, the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) classified OpenCandy’s software as “Low (threat level) Adware.” This prompted Microsoft security products (such as Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender) to alert consumers downloading any of the hundreds of high-quality, trusted applications that use OpenCandy to make software recommendations in their installers.
We believe we have identified the cause of this misunderstanding and taken action to resolve it, so it should not affect any new OpenCandy software distribution going forward. However, there still remains an issue that Microsoft is falsely alerting potentially hundreds of millions of consumers (who have downloaded or are downloading, previous versions of OpenCandy software).
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CCEnhancer Helps CCleaner Clean Even Better (freeware)
CCEnhancer is a tiny app made by The Web Atom to enhance the functionality of the world’s most popular “cleaning” tool for Windows, CCleaner. CCEnhancer adds detection of temp, “junk” and “unnecessary” files for over 270 additional third-party programs to CCleaner.
Doesn’t Get Any Easier
CCEnhancer is a minuscule 350KB download and is a cinch to use. Once downloaded, simply launch CCEnhancer with admin privileges and press “Download latest” to fetch an up-to-date file containing the list of additional third-party apps and the location of their “unnecessary” files which CCEnhancer then adds to CCleaner’s configuration. Once that’s finished (after about 10-20 seconds), you can launch CCleaner and check out all the new apps that were added by looking at the ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Cleaner’ section of CCleaner. There you can choose what application’s files you want to remove.
