The Best FREE Antivirus Software To Protect Your Computer

Although there are limitations in free antivirus in protecting our computer compare to those paid version. But, there are some the Best Free Antivirus Software that do very good protection from virus intrusion. You can use one of them to protect your home computers. Below is the list of free anti-virus that you can download for:

1. AVG Anti-Virus Free

Anti-Virus Free from AVG is the best antivirus software available. It provides free protection against viruses and spyware. You don’t need to pay for it as it is available for download free from their website. The anti-virus software supports all Windows operating systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000.



Although it is a free version, it is a full-fledged antivirus and antispyware tool, includes an email scanner, link scanner, scheduled scanning options, automatic updates, and more. Moreover, the huge number of premium features, frequency of updating, and install-it-and-forget-it aspect of AVG's Anti-Virus Free really do make it the best of the most downloaded free antivirus programs available today.

Download AVG Anti-Virus FREE & Get Your Computer Protected.

2. Avast! Free Antivirus

Avast! Free AntiVirus is deserved to be listed as on of the best anti-virus programs. Similar to AVG Free AntiVirus, the free edition provides very comprehensive protection from viruses and spywares. It has fully functioning spyware and antivirus engines to protect your PC from threats from internet, email and file sharing. For those who don’t want to go for a paid-version of anti-virus software, Avast! Free AntiVirus can be a good option.



Avast! Free AntiVirus supports almost all latest versions of Windows: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000.

Notes: During the Avast! Free AntiVirus installation, you will be asked to install Google Chrome. If you are not interested in installing the Google Chrome, just uncheck the box. Also, you will need to register Avast! Free AntiVirus after the installation in order to use it more than 30 days (after the registration, there is no expire date in using the anti-virus program).

Download Avast! Free Anti-Virus.

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How To Disable Logon Screen Saver in Windows Vista

Recently, one of my laptops running Windows Vista shows "Logon Screen Saver stopped responding" error everytime I walk away from the laptop I return to a logon screen saver or a blank screen, and cannot get back to the screens I was using. I have to log off or restart the laptop.

After searching from the internet, this solution fixes my problem:

Since the problem is due to the Login Screen Saver, so I have decided to disable it, so that the laptop won't go into the logon screen saver when I away from the laptop.

Below are the steps to distable the Logon Screen Saver at the Registry level:

1. Logon the computer/laptop with an administrator account. If you are the only user using the computer/laptop, most probably your default logon username already have the administrator privileges.

2. Go to START -> RUN. Type regedit into the textbox and hit ENTER to launch the Registry Editor.


3. By double-clicking on the appropriate folders, Navigate to HKEY_USERS -> CONTROL PANEL -> DESKTOP. You should see:


4. Find "ScreenSaveActive" and "ScreenSaveTimeOut" from the rightmost panel. Set both values to 0. You can do this by double clicking on the words and entering the number 0 in the following pop-up window.

5. Close the Registry Editor.

IT DONE! No more "Logon Screen Saver not reponding" Error anymore.

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How To Backup & Restore Registry in Windows 7/Vista/XP

In proper modification of registry in Windows may cause system crash. So, it is important to backup the existing registry before you modify it. Just in case any problem arise due to the registry modification, you can always restore it from the backup copy.

Exporting - Backup Registry

There are slidely different in steps to backup the registry in different Windows versions. Below are simple steps to backup the registry for Windows 7/Vista/XP:

Windows XP and Vista : Open Start menu, type regedit in Start Search and click OK.

Windows XP: Open Start menu, click Run, type regedit and select OK.


Once the Registry Editor window launched, go to the File Menu and select Export.


Under the export range select All.


Put an appropriate file name and save as file type Registration Files(*.reg).

Importing - Restore Registry

If you want to restore the registry, select the import from the file menu of registry editor:

Now select the registry file(backup) that you made(using above procedure) and it will recover your settings that were before you made changes in the registry.

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How To Reinstall Trial Software After Trial Period Has Expired

There are a few methods to resinstall and reset the trial period of a trial software:

Method 1: Backup The Registry

Most trial software add a registry key to track it validality. When you uninstall a software, the registry key will not be removed. So, if you have removed a trial software and try to reinstall again, you wont be able to reset the trial period as the software found the registry key created in your previous installation and gives you a message like for e.g, "Your trial period has expired".

So the best way to re-used a tria software is: Backup your computer registry before install any trial software so that you can restore the registry, the one without the trial software key and enable you to reset the trial period again. See how to backup and restore computer registry.

Method 2: Use Process Monitor

Process monitor is a small window tool created to let computer users to monitor their computer activities in real time. With process monitor, activites such as real-time file system, registry and process/thread can be monitored. With this you can see which applications are accessing your Registry, which keys they are accessing, and the Registry data that they are reading and writing – all in real-time.

Note: The Process Monitor will show all activities by default. You can use the toolbar, circled in RED to filter out all activities except the registry activities for easy of tracking purpose.

Then, run the Process Minitor and install the trial software, see which registry being added or monidifed, and note down the name and the path of the key. Once the trial software expired, you can revert back the trial period by modifying the key and set them back to the value as you recorded during the trial software installation.

Update: There is a small tool called: Little Registry Cleaner that you can use to clear up invalid/broken registry items, in this way it can clean up all traces of a program.

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