Providing free tech support to friends and family is a rough job. With paying clients you can say "Keep your money!" and walk away, but this is not an acceptable practice with your inner circle. In an effort to reduce trouble-shooting, late-night phone calls and unfortunate computing incidents I created this page. Hopefully everyone with a Windows-based computer will follow my advice and we'll all surf safely in perpetuity. Hover your mouse over the links for a brief description of each program. ALL Programs on this page are FREE of charge and most are open source. I use them all.
Must Have Programs:
- Windows Defender (used to be 'Microsoft Anti-Spyware')
- Lavasoft Ad-Aware
- Spybot Search & Destroy
- AVG Anti-Virus
- ZoneAlarm
Cool To Have Programs:
Geekishly Awesome:
