Ramblings of an old Doc
Published on January 24, 2011 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

 

Windows Secrets is making a nice offer to go along with subscribing to their emailed newsletter.

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This month it’s a chapter that interests folks here at WC a good deal, “Fighting Viruses and Other Scum” (Chapter 5) as a free download.

This chapter teaches how antivirus products work with your Operating System and how to use them.

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on Jan 24, 2011

Here I go again. Almost turned away from this one. They want you to subscribe to a paid newsletter which in itself is not too shabby. Its more like a donation as there is no set price. The download for the free version is all the way down at the bottom and if you look to the right there are other articles to be had. All in all not too bad at all. Thanks Doctor Know. Oh... and they also suggest you download Foxit Reader if you don't have A PDF reader. I have Adobe's. Foxit Reader is a good one. Had it once before and it works pretty good without the big footprint like Adobe.

on Jan 24, 2011

lol.... Uvah, they can have interesting stuff there. The Security stuff is ok.

I subscribe to the free one also...sort of a back-up. Foxit reader is a good extension.

on Jan 24, 2011

Yup. I bookmarked the page. I think everyone running Win7 should take advantage of this.

on Jan 24, 2011

Did that with Win98SE. While its good for some things its a bit .... um .... outdated. But thanks anyway.

Try this one instead. TrueSpace 7.61.     http://www.freewarefiles.com/Truespace_program_44749.html

on Jan 24, 2011

I have had this one for some time.  Like all things, you just have to separate the wheat from the Chaff, so it is worth it (can;'t beat the price).

I see you have a new Avatar too - Bones!

on Jan 24, 2011

Did that with Win98SE. While its good for some things its a bit .... um .... outdated. But thanks anyway.

Installed perfectly on my machine, a W7 Pro OS, Uvah. Works just fine.

Dr Guy
I have had this one for some time.  Like all things, you just have to separate the wheat from the Chaff, so it is worth it (can;'t beat the price).

I see you have a new Avatar too - Bones!

Yep!

on Jan 24, 2011

This link is very interesting for the users of W7. Thank you DrJBHL for this information.

on Jan 24, 2011

Microsoft made the new version of Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 free.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9caca722-5235-401c-8d3f-9e242b794c3a <- linky

It's basically a very professional science calculator. Significantly better than the default, and has some very neat features. If you are in school or similar, this might be quite useful for you.

 

on Jan 24, 2011

Check out the link I tried to fix. Truespace is also a freebie and comes with a PDF manual. I'm re-downloading it because I can't find the .exe on my machine. Think of it as a 3D .gif animator on steroids. It is to MS gif animator what Photoshop is to Paint Dot Net.

on Jan 24, 2011

This link is very interesting for the users of W7. Thank you DrJBHL for this information.

You're welcome

Khardis
Microsoft made the new version of Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 free.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9caca722-5235-401c-8d3f-9e242b794c3a <- linky

It's basically a very professional science calculator. Significantly better than the default, and has some very neat features. If you are in school or similar, this might be quite useful for you.

 

Indeed. That's why I created this post on it:  https://forums.wincustomize.com/403989

But, thanks for the info!

 

Uvah, that's a 3D modeling program, isn't it?

 

on Jan 24, 2011

Yessir it is and a pretty good one too. Not like blender. It has a 'normal' UI. And its free. And its also huge at 127mb. I played with a few times before I lost my old machine. I thought I still had the executable but it seems to have taken a powder. Dl speeds here are atrocious. Ten minutes still to go @ an average 32 kbps!!

on Jan 24, 2011

it's the cynic in me but, free means no strings attached. if you have to subscribe then it really isn't free, is it.

and they don't delete your information just because you unsubscribe.

one should (IMHO) always ask themselves, "do I really need this?"

Doc, are you downloading all of the things that you are recommending, how's it working out?

on Jan 24, 2011

I like free. It is a very good thing, free. I subscribed to the free a long time ago. Thanks Seth!

on Jan 24, 2011

You're a real bud, Jim.

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