top tips for windows
1) autoit is an automatic scripting language can make macros repeating tasks and windows configurations easy http://www.ehow.com/how_12211912_make-autoit-follow-movements.html
2) net diag is a command to make sure all computers in a network can communicate with each other
3) window reliability monitor on windows vista machines and higher arrange event logs errors and see what makes it easier to see root causes.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-7-reliability-monitor/
4) the cmd prompt is a part of the system path so all you have try to do is put cmd.exe into the file browser like so http://youtu.be/yWELwtpyYi8
5) the following link shows how it is possible to remotely use the command prompt if another computer. The command ipconfig /flushdns can be sent to multiple computers using a pipe command from net view | http://ss64.com/nt/winrm.htm
6) power gui is a wizard for PowerShell point and click commandlets. This used to be produced by quest software until dell bought them http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/powergui/
7) internet connections can be accessed using netsh http://youtu.be/Og7zlmTQH2U
also opendns can be used for accessing the web more securely http://youtu.be/L-C-LpxQnKc opendns is now owned by cisco https://www.opendns.com/ also Norton makes a good dns but I would recommend using it as the secondary using opendns primary
https://dns.norton.com/
8) www.techbargains.com is the best price comparison / deal alert website I've found
9) Kaspersky id my current favorite paid antivirus while avast is my favorite free. Avast bought avg. Bitdefender came in second. Malwarebytes and super antispyware are good scanners.
10) revo uninstaller portable free is a good uninstaller picking up traces left behind after the regular uninstaller is finished
11) Google chrome remote desktop id the best secure VPN software which is free
12) advanced system care by iobit is good software but hopefully they make a portable version. Good for getting a slow computer better
13) secunia psi is the best bulk update software for ngo and home use
techzilla gives more good tips http://revision3.com/tekzilla/
packetstormsecurity.com and hitb.org and securitymagazine.com are amongst the best security news
www.betanews.com and cnet.com and news.yahoo.com/tech are amongst the best for general computing news
spice works is a good community with a great script repository and q and a.
pcqanda.org and quota are amongst the best q and a sites.
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