In today’s world, we are seeing malware writers focusing on weaknesses in third party applications such as Flash and Java rather than just targeting the operating system. Patch My PC is designed to help secure a machine against the vulnerabilities of having outdated third party software installed. Patch My PC …

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few years, you have surely heard of Craigslist.org. If you haven’t, Craigslist is a network of online communities featuring free online classified advertisements. It allows you to post advertisements offering your computer repair services and essentially gain clients for …

GSmartControl is an open source and portable application for identifying, monitoring and testing hard drives. GSmartControl differs from applications like CrystalDiskInfo because GSmartControl monitors the SMART data and runs tests, whereas CrystalDiskInfo just monitors the SMART data. The reason why you would want to actually test a hard drive rather …

Mail Viewer is a free and portable application to view standalone Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird databases. By standalone, I mean it will display a list of the emails contained in the databases without actually setting up the email client the file belongs to. Mail Viewer allows you …

Utilman.exe is a built in Windows application that is designed to allow the user to configure Accessibility options such as the Magnifier, High Contrast Theme, Narrator and On Screen Keyboard before they log onto the system. This was designed to help people who are hard of sight, hearing or mobility …

Ultra Virus Killer, also known as UVK, is a free and portable application designed to help users detect and remove malware. UVK acts as a swiss army knife of malware removal as it contains similar functionality to a range of computer technician software use such as Process Explorer, Autoruns, Unlocker, …

As Computer Technicians, one of the most important things for us to do after we install a fresh copy of Windows is to get the operating system online so we can install the appropriate drivers. Unfortunately, there is sometimes a catch 22 where we cant get the operating system online …

Last week we announced a survey competition. The competition is now closed and we have a winner! Congratulations to heathlandreth@*******.com! What they have won: Fabs Autobackup 4 Tech A fantastic portable application that makes backing up and restoring your clients data incredibly easy. This is easily one of my favourite …

We here at Technibble we plan on writing more about obtaining and supporting business clients and we would like to know what specific issues you would like us to write about on this topic. So, we are hosting a survey competition to learn more about our readers. To make things …

Windows Reliability Monitor is tool is built into Windows 7 that is definitely worth mentioning because few people know about it. Windows Reliability Monitor takes the events in Windows Event Viewer and displays them in a easy to read daily graph which makes it much easier to spot trends. For …