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I recommend Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition. No settings to worry about, no "extra" features, no scheduled prompts to ask you to upgrade, no ads. Minimal footprint.

I recently bought an Acer 13.3" laptop with Pentium N3540 on 4GB memory. It's not a powerful machine, gave it to the kids to watch Youtube videos and do homework on MS-Word and MS-Powerpoint. No gaming. It comes with 30-days free trial of McAfee LiveSafe. But do I really need to pay for it...

I have a 3-year-old Acer Aspire TimelineX 5830TG-2434G75Mibb with Core i5-2430m and GT 540m. Do you think I should send it for cleaning and re-apply the thermal paste on the CPU and graphics chip? Does the fan and thermal paste go bad after 3 years?

I have a similar 3-year-old notebook, Acer Aspire TimelineX 5830TG-2434G75Mibb with Core i5-2430m and GT 540m. I researched the websites and found that my i5-2430m is still comparable to the newer i5-4210U processor. The GT540m is a problem as there are newer and more powerful GT 750m and...

Good enough. My notebook is an old Acer Aspire TimelineX 5830TG-2434G75Mibb from 2011 and it can still play Sims 3 with 6 expansion packs. Do note that Sims 3 has a bug where it will play slower and slower even if you have the most powerful CPU/graphics, that's why they released the new Sims 4.

Pale Moon is an optimized version of Firefox that is specifically designed to run as efficiently as possible. Download Link: http://www.downloadbestsoft.com/Pale-Moon.html Homepage: http://www.palemoon.org/ SlimBoat uses a small amount of memory while providing a nice amount of features (It...

Try the Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition (2014), which is easy to use with no options to configure. It consumes very little resource (gzserv.exe and gziface.exe) and doesn't push annoying advertisement for their paid version. I use Malwarebytes Pro but the free edition is good enough for...

When you open Control Panel, you can find two things related to your question: Windows Defender and Windows Firewall. When you installed Microsoft Security Essentials, it will by default disable Windows Defender, but will work along with Windows Firewall. If you buy the full package XXX-brand...

I switched to Postbox from Thunderbird. I paid US$9.95 after the 30-days trial period. Not bad if you use multiple email addresses. What I did during the trial period was to migrate just one (less important) email account, preferably used for receiving notifications from forum subscriptions...

I'm glad this question was asked because I'm confused too about how to interpret the readings. I wish there is some manual somewhere.