There are various factors that actually affect a hard drive’s performance such as CPU speed, RAM, motherboard, etc. Being a non-tech savvy user, it is probably quite difficult for you to have a comprehensive analysis of the overall performance by looking at the different elements. To ensure your hard drive is in good shape and to avoid any potential errors, one of the ways to test the hard drive is to check the standard performance metrics of the hard drive, e.g. the read and write speed. This type of simple benchmark uses a unified scoring system to paint a full picture but also gives an indication about your hard drive’s performance. CrystalDiskMark is a free hard drive benchmark utility like HD Tune that allows users to quick measure the reading and writing speeds of the hard drives by running a series of tests.

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Pazera Free Video to 3GP Converter is a tiny application which allows the users to convert the most popular video files including AVI, MPEG, MP4, FLV and MOV into mobile phone video format like 3GP and 3G2. To make it simple and easy to use, the program is being designed with intuitive user-friendly interface.

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When connecting to a secure wireless network or Wi-Fi connection which is encrypted with WEP, WPA or WPA2, Windows will offer to save and remember the network security key that is used to connected to the secured wireless connection so that Windows can automatically authenticate with the router or gateway to login and connect to the WiFi network in future.

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TuneUp Utilities (or Tune-Up Utilities) is a popular software utility to fine tine, optimize, maintain and troubleshoot Windows computer system. With TuneUp Utilities, users can make PC fast and stable, tweak or customize Windows easily, and even fix issues or problems commonly affected Windows operating system. The newest version of TuneUp Utilities, TuneUp Utilities 2010 version 9.0 has been released, with full compatibility with Windows 7.

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SyncToy, the free files and folders synchronization software from Microsoft, is one of the rare gem of Microsoft released freeware which has impressive features and reliability, has been updated to version 2.1. SyncToy v2.1 is powered by the latest synchronization engine from Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0, and promises better performance and robustness.

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For some reasons you might want to view or extract passwords stored in your Firefox web browser. In case you are scratching your head and looking for a quick way out, probably the tiny password recovery tool, PasswordFox, can give you assistance. For Windows only, PasswordFox will display and show users the passwords stored in any profile in the Firefox browser. Users can view password information stored in the browser of other profiles besides their own. Through the program’s simple interface, users can read clearly information displayed such as Record Index, Web Site, User Name, Password, User Name Field, Password Field, and the Signons filename.

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We have mentioned about a few free utilities such as PC Wizard 2008 or TinyResMeter that can inspect and show you your PC system specification in details but in case you just would like to get a quick overview without it to occupy much of your hard disk space, Piriform Speccy could be a good alternative that you can consider.

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IOBit will give away its Advanced SystemCare PRO for 24 hours randomly starting from a random time between 20 November and 27 November as a ThanksGiving gift/present. Advanced SystemCare PRO (formerly known as Advanced WindowsCare Professional) is a Windows system utility which provides an always-on, automated, all-in-one PC Healthcare Service with anti-spyware, privacy protection, performance tune-ups, and system cleaning capabilities.

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