Wise Disk Cleaner 8.86.625

Have your computer undergo a thorough scan process in order to find and remove junk files that only take up precious disk space and slow down your computer

After a while your computer's performance can significantly drop. This is all due to leftovers from removed applications or even temporary files and Internet related data. However, with the help of some specialized applications, your computer can be made as good as new. One such example is Wise Disk Cleaner with a name that speaks for itself.

Visually appealing and easy to use

The application prides itself with a modern, flat interface. It's pretty visually appealing, with elements cleverly stored in the main window and clearly visible. An upper toolbar lets you quickly access all of its four major features, Common Cleaner, Advanced Cleaner, Slimming System and Disk Defrag.

Get rid of junk files

After a quick deployment process, you are free to scan your hard disk drives for junk files. Depending on your total space and selected elements, the process can take several minutes. Files found are displayed next to each of the dedicated categories, and the amount of space they take up.

Cleaning is finished quickly, with an indicator displaying how much space you got back. A more in-depth scan can be performed by accessing the Advanced Cleaner. It takes less time to configure, as you are only required to select drives to be put under the scope. In addition, these two features can be scheduled at a custom date and frequency.

Search in every corner of your computer

Furthermore, you can free even more disk space with the Slimming System feature, which finds junk files in Windows Installer Baseline Cache, Help Files, as well as Wallpaper files. For increased performance, you can also start a defragmentation process on any connected storage device.

In conclusion

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Wise Disk Cleaner is a handy application you can use from time to time when your computer starts showing signs of weakness. The interface lets anyone quickly accommodate and it manages to do a pretty good job overall.

Program Information

 Developer: WiseCleaner

Price and Added Date

AD-SUPPORTED .12-12-2015

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iSpy 6.4.7.0

A fully-featured video recording utility that offers support for sound and email notifications, built-in motion detectors, as well as multiple webcams and microphones

iSpy is an open-source video recording utility able to capture video content to Flash files. Thanks to its movement detection feature and email notifications, you can use it as your personal surveillance tool.

It boasts a clean interface that allows users to set up the monitoring process by connecting multiple cameras and microphones. iSpy provides support for multiple webcams, which can be synchronized to record in the same time.

A new camera can be configured in terms of video source, name, timestamp, and mask image. Plus, you can specify the maximum frame rate and pair a microphone with the selected camera for recording videos with sound.

The application comes packed with different built-in motion detectors (e.g. two frames, custom frames), and gives you the possibility to set the minimum and maximum trigger level for motion detection, as well as adjust the levels for saturation and luminance and select the colors to ignore or track during the recoding process. This feature proves to be very useful, as you can monitor objects of a specific color, or detect smoke or fire.

Other important options allow users to track objects by counting the number of detected items in the scene, set alarms, keep edges, apply noise filters, monitor specific areas of the camera by drawing rectangles, as well as schedule tasks.

You can activate alarms and make the program play a WAV file or open a file, and send SMS or MMS to the specified phone number, messages on Twitter, as well as email alerts. The program offers support for PTZ cameras, and enables users to upload the recordings to FTP servers or publish them on YouTube.

Of course, the quality of the generated videos pretty much depends on the webcam used, so some images may not be very accurate with low-quality devices.

All is all, iSpy provides a complete suite of tools for helping you carry out the monitoring process efficiently.

Program Information

 Developer: DeveloperInABox

Price and Added Date

GPL .02-12-2015

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Hotspot Shield 5.0.4

Gain full access to online content while keeping your virtual identity safe with the help of this powerful and easy to use application

Hotspot Shield is a VPN based software that acts like a shield against network and Internet surveillance. It is equipped with a strong encryption technology that allows it to secure web sessions, personal information and data transfers. In order to ensure complete anonymity, the application hides your IP address and arranges for you to remain protected as you travel to different Wi-Fi locations.

Gives you full access to online content

Hotspot Shield is a reliable choice if you wish to remain anonymous during your online sessions. Your personal details are kept invisible to third party ISPs (Internet service providers) and websites and all transactions are secured through HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) encryption. With it, you can access web content without censorship and all of your video or voice chats are protected.

The installation procedure is rather straightforward and Hotspot Shield remains very friendly with computer resources all the time, which means you should be able to run it on older machines as well.

Configure connections and protection level

After years of lacking a desktop GUI, Hotspot Shield now comes with an interface; from here, users now have a more clear option to connect or disconnect the VPN service. The Settings window allows you to configure the level of protection for the Network Detection feature: you can set it to warn you each time your computer connects to new networks, to auto-connect to unknown networks or to turn off both of these options.

To end with

All in all, Hotspot Shield sets the ground for a stress-free anonymous browsing experience. Its powerful algorithm makes it virtually impossible for anyone to trace you. Moreover, it can be used by anyone since you are mostly required to press a button in order to connect.

Program Information

 Developer: AnchorFree

Price and Added Date

AD-SUPPORTED .28-11-2015

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Total Uninstall 6.16.0

Powerful software that helps you uninstall programs including registry entries and other leftover files, clean junk items and monitor new installed applications

Total Uninstall is an advanced software application specialized in uninstalling programs from your computer and completely removing registry entries or other traces. It includes several additional tools designed to help you monitor new utilities, clean junk files and create backups.

Clean feature lineup

The tool automatically detects all programs installed on your computer, displays them in a simple list and offers information about the program name, installation date and size.

Additionally, you are allowed to add new software to the list, change icons, add notes, as well as create groups and subgroups for organizing the programs. The search feature helps you quickly identify an application and reveals the results in real-time.

Different analysis profiles

The tool embeds a powerful analysis algorithm that helps you gather information about every corresponding file or registry entry before actually removing a program. It offers support for three different analysis profiles, namely safe, normal and advanced. The last one is the most comprehensive one as it scans your computer thoroughly and may include files shared with the operating system in the scan results.

Backup and batch uninstallation mode

Total Uninstall lets you back up files and registry items so you can restore them in the future in case any problems may appear.

Utilities can be removed in a single or batch mode. The first one allows you to delete all data included in the analysis or use the program’s built-in uninstaller while the second empowers you to uninstall multiple apps at the same time.

A system restore point is automatically created before removing any program from the list, and you can view detailed information about the deletion operation, such as uninstall log with total successful actions, errors and warnings, as well as full path of each deleted file, folder and registry key.

Monitoring new apps installed on the system and cleaning junk files

A smart feature included in the software enables you to detect any types of changes that are made to your system when you install new tools. Total Uninstall creates a pre-install system snapshot of the registry and file system so you can compare it with a new snapshot taken after the target’s installation.

The built-in Cleaner gives you the possibility to get rid of unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that may take extra space on the system.

Configuration settings

Total Uninstall offers support for context menu integration for monitoring programs and lets you alter the analysis and uninstall profiles (changing their names and adding descriptions, adjusting the levels for detecting program settings and shredding files instead of sending them to the Recycle Bin).

When it comes to cleaning junk files, you can make the program search for invalid entries (e.g. missing shared DLLs, file references, MSI paths) and file system data (e.g. Windows log files, memory dumps, temporary folders, browsing info for IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Maxthon).

An advanced and powerful uninstaller

Taken into consideration its powerful mix of features that allow you to uninstall programs including registry entries and other leftover files, Total Uninstall proves to be a reliable tool which is mainly geared toward professional users.

Program Information

 Developer: Gavrila Martau

Price and Added Date

Freeware .12-10-2015

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Privacy Eraser Free 4.6.0 Build 1671

Clean up browsing history, typed URL addresses, passwords and temporary files in a secure manner with the help of this intuitive application

Privacy Eraser Free is a comprehensive and full-featured software solution that protects your privacy by removing all the tracks and other computer activities effortlessly. It scans your entire computer for leftover files, typed URL addresses, memorized passwords, log files and even memory dumps and cleans up your computer instantly.

Because it supports all popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari or Opera, you can easily clean up the browsing history. Additionally, you are able to remove files from FAT16, FAT32, exFAT or NTFS file systems.

When you launch the application for the first time, you can perform a scanning process within seconds. It does not take as long as we expected and displays all of the found registry keys. After that, you can remove them from your computer, then restart or shutdown the system.

By accessing the Windows section, you are able to choose which files and objects you want to be removed from your PC. This is quite useful when you need to erase specific information such as search history, clipboard, Recycle Bin entries, temporary files, Windows log files, credentials, invalid desktop shortcuts and even Event logs.

In case you want to configure each browser the way you want, you can navigate to the proper section from the left pane of the application. Privacy Eraser Free automatically recognizes all the installed web browsers and provides you with predefined options you can choose from in order to delete only the data you don’t want anymore. Typed URLs, Index.dat Files and Saved Passwords are amongst the fewest options that help you to erase such data.

What’s quite important is that Privacy Eraser Free also supports plugins in order to extend the cleaning features for ACDSee, Adobe Reader, WinRAR, Windows Media Player and BitTorrent applications, to name a few.

The ‘File Shredder’ section enables you to securely erase the content of sensitive files and folders, thus protecting your privacy. Since it allows you to drag and drop any file you want, you can easily delete as many folders and documents as you want.

Also, you can access the ‘Data Wiper’ tab if you want to erase all the free clusters on the drives, including the contents of deleted files and folders.

To conclude, Privacy Eraser Free is a complete suite that allows you to remove Internet cache, temporary files, download history, saved passwords, as well as schedule cleaning tasks to run at a specific time.

Program Information

 Developer: Cybertron Software Co., Ltd.

Price and Added Date

DEMO .18-11-2015

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Hide IP Speed 3.12

The perfect tool for you if you're concerned about Internet privacy and want to hide your IP address in order to safely browse the web

If privacy is one of your main concerns when browsing the web, you should get a dedicated software solution to protect you while online. Besides using the 'Private mode' many modern browser come with, you can try an anonymizer service or a proxy server to redirect the traffic. One such dedicated application is Hide IP Speed, the name speaking for itself.

Surf the web the safe way

Hide IP Speed is one of the applications that can do that, while remaining pretty light on computer resources and extremely user friendly. The application is basically an improved version of Hide IP NG that offers a little extra speed.

Simplicity is a flavor that's actually part of the whole application, as there's nothing too complicated when it comes to working with Hide IP Speed. It will conceal your real IP address so you can browse the Internet without leaking personal information.

Stays hidden in your system tray

Hide IP Speed doesn't have an interface, instead you can right-click its tray icon to access the main functions. The 'Options' area, though, has its own window with several tabs for configuring the running settings of the application.

Lightweight and easy to use

What we noticed during our tests was a minor slowdown of the Internet connection, but this only depends on the proxy Hide IP Speed connects to. The good thing is that it remains very friendly with computer resources, so it can easily work on older machines too.

In conclusion

All in all, Hide IP Speed does provide a supplemental layer of protection and will keep your personal information away from prying eyes. The IP address will be masked and your browsing session will remain truly private.

Program Information

 Developer: Volcano Force

Price and Added Date

TRIAL .18-11-2015

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McAfee Stinger 12.1.0.1798

Handy stand-alone software solution that can detect then clean a wide range of viruses and other types of malware, without slowing down the PC

McAfee Stinger is a portable and free application designed to remove malware-infected files from the computer. It scans the hard disk on demand and detects viruses, rootkits, Trojans, worms, and other e-threats.

Portability advantages

Since there is no setup pack involved, you can drop the executable file anywhere on the hard disk and launch the tool immediately. There is also the possibility to save McAfee Stinger to a pen drive and scan any suspicious computer without installing anything else.

Just keep in mind that the storage device shouldn't be read-only, since the app automatically creates some files when it's running, such as logs with statistics for each scan. An important aspect worth taking into account is that, unlike most installers, McAfee Stinger does not modify Windows registry settings.

Clean and intuitive interface

The GUI is user-friendly, made from a regular window with a neatly organized layout. By default, the application looks only into system areas where viruses are known to hide, such as program files and the Windows directory. However, you may customize the scan and reduce its duration by handpicking a drive or directory.

Identifies and quarantines malware

During scanning you can view the currently verified file, scan time and total files scanned, along with found and cleaned threats. Any suspicions are sent to the quarantine, where you can decide whether to keep or remove the files in question. Log details may be examined in separate files. It is possible to modify the quarantine's default location and include all scanned files in logs.

Evaluation and conclusion

The tool uses moderate RAM and low CPU during scanning, which may take a while, depending on the target's size. However, we have come across some issues in our tests. McAfee Stinger wouldn't take into account the custom locations we assigned for scanning, and kept running in default mode instead.

Nevertheless, users are welcomed to try McAfee Stinger for themselves and figure out if it's a suitable on-demand virus scanner for them. Just keep in mind that it does not provide real-time protection against malware, so you still have to install an all-round antivirus application to keep the PC safe at all times.

Program Information

 Developer: McAfee

Price and Added Date

FREEWARE .13-11-2015

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