April 2008 Newsletter #2


This Month


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The Road Ahead


Rob addresses the masses about our future: SaaS, Optimize and Craplets, OverDrive comes out of beta.


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From Bloat to Craplet


There is more junk installed on your out of the box comptuer than you think. Craplets are everywhere.


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How to Rev Up a Vista Machine


Clean the junk out of your Vista machine and improve upon out-of-the-box configuration step by step.


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Song: You’re Not Me


The Tachometers have done it again! Tune in to this song about Identity Theft and tell us your story!

APRIL 2008 NEWSLETTER


PC Pitstop



Product Updates


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Optimize Now Removes Craplets


Optimize now finds & removes hundreds of those useless programs that keep your PC from running at peak performance.


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OverDrive Out of Beta


OverDrive, the redesign of our world renowned Full Tests, is officially out of beta and now scans for cookies.


Free Scans


Driver Alert



Driver Alert


PC Update

Improve system functionality & stability.



Free Spyware Scan



Exterminate


Anti-Spyware

Stop Spyware from slowing your PC.



Disk Health



Disk MD

Drive Refresh

Keep your Hard Drives working at full speed!



Personal Data Profiler



Erase


PC Profiler

Learn what others may discover about you!



Win Patrol Free Trial



WinPatrol


PC Watchdog

Who is watching your PC’s front door?



Full Test



OverDrive


PC Checkup

Most complete
PC analysis available.



PC Trends


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Help, Help! Save my XP!


XP will be going the way of the dinosaurs: what you can do to prepare for XP exinction.

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Installed RAM – XP vs. Vista


How has the release of Vista affected the trend in average RAM installed? Check out our most recent research!


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Search Survey Results


How does the average user find information online and what search engines are they using?



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You could win $100 for participating in our current surveys!
See all past winners.


Tech Tips



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Handy MS Word tip


This is a handy tip for paragraph pasters. Thanks Paultx for this life-simplifying tip.


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Icon restore


With this handy tip from morbidbutterfly, you’ll never have to manually arrange your desktop again.


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Reclaim CPU power: Vista boot


Got high CPU usage after you boot? This great tip from LordMordred saves your computer and frees up CPU power.


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$100 goes to the best tips each month.


Exclusive Offers


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