Safeguard, Optimize and Enhance your Windows with YAC

An old computer can’t match the performance capabilities of a new computer, however we can always try to reduce this gap and maintain our own computer to extract the most of it. Maintaining old computer is not easy as it tends to get slow over the time (not by degrading hardware but because of the temp and junk files), is prone to attacks and other things.

Thus, to protect our computer from external attacks and keep it running like in a new state, we need some third party tools. There are many tools available for this purpose; one which I am reviewing today is called as YAC (Yet Another Cleaner).

What is YAC?

In short, YAC is an all-in-one PC Protection service with Malware Removal, outdated Registry & Cookies Cleaner with Privacy Protection and System Cleaning Capabilities.

In detail, what YAC does is: it cleans your PC for outdated registry entries without breaking them, cookies and junk files. YAC also helps protect your browser from malicious plug-ins by clearing out of cache/browser history, emptying the recycle bin, old Windows logs, memory dumps and other “unseen” objects to speeds up slow computers. Also helps in saving disk space and keep the computer running fast.

Why use YAC?

This small program is free to use and has been trusted by many users worldwide. The tool has also been cleared to use by Norton and McAfee agencies. So if you are mesmerized by what this small tool can do, you should give it a try.

YAC is really simple to use and has a GUI that can be operated by even someone who doesn’t have much information about the computers. It lets you see the scores based on your PC health, and lets you clean the issues in just a click. However, we would suggest you to look into the causes before blindly removing them.

So if you liked the tool and want to give it a try, then the download link is provided at the bottom of this article. Please don’t forget to create a System Restore Point before installation, to undo the changes if anything goes wrong.

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Tools to Password Protect External USB Hard Disk Drives

We know how important it is to safeguard our data from unwanted people and if the data is in our external hard disk or USB drives, then it becomes more important to keep it secure. Since the drives lacks ability to password protect the data by themselves, the information is at risk all the time.

So if you are looking for some tool that can password protect your drive so that you can feel free with peace of mind, then here are some that can help you. Using these tools, you can not only protect your data from reaching the wrong hands but also be sure that without your knowledge no one will be able to access the information.

USB Safeguard

The first tool that I liked to password protect your USB drives is the USB Safeguard as it is a small tool that needs no installation and can be run directly from the USB drive. What you need to do is just run the tool from the drive and provide a password to lock it. That’s it, now anyone who will try to access the drive will require the password to unlock it. However there is a limitation with it, that the free version is not full and has some limitations to it.

Folder Lock

Another tool for the same purpose is the famous Folder Lock. You can use this tool to lockdown your data, files and also the USB drive. Folder Lock lets you password-protect files, folders and drives; encrypt your important files on–the-fly; backup them in real-time; protect USB drives and portable devices; shred files and clean history.

Folder Lock Lite

You can also try the lite version of the Folder Lock, which provides the same level of security but with easiness. Drag and drop feature is a plus.

File Secure Free

A freeware that allows you to encrypt, backup, shred and lock the USB drive. The tool works great and lets you lockdown the USB drive with a password so that no one is able to access it. However you will need to unlock the drive each time to access the contents.

Let me know which tool worked great for you.

Jump to Next Pages on Websites in Firefox using Space Key

For all those who like to surf internet and spend time reading stuffs online, this will prove to be a great relief. These days most websites that we come across have multi page formats, which means the content is spread across different pages which supports various things one of which being, faster page load and less time taken to display some of the information.

Moreover if you search anything on Google, the results in displayed in different pages (as seen here too), so if you are someone who uses keyboard more than the mouse or just hate using mouse only for clicking the page number every time you are done with a page, here is something to help.

So, if you are using Firefox as your browser, here is an extension or an add-on (as called by Firefox), Space Next which allows you to jump to the next page by pressing the Space keyand without using the mouse at all. Sounds great, isn’t it? Usually what Space key does is, it takes the webpage like couple of rows down when pressed once but if we keep it pressed then we reach the bottom. But if you install this add-on you will get the added functionality of opening the next page with only a press on the Space key.

This already seems like effort saver to me, but it also allows some more features like append.Append mode here allows you to open a webpage appended to the previous one, in a single page and instead of opening in new page. Check the screenshot below, this should help.

The add-on also allows you to customize your shortcut and do some configurations. If you liked it and want to use in Firefox then the link is at the bottom. P.S. I tried looking for something like this in Chrome, but couldn’t find something reliable.

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Check Windows Experience Index Score on windows 8.1

Computer is one device which gets old really fast, and the reason why I am saying this is because there are lots and lots of improvements in hardware and software technology that even if you buy the latest configuration model from the market, it feels old and slow in couple of years.

If you wish to check the performance of your machine, you don’t need to install any third party software for that as Windows had got Windows Experience Index for that by default. The Windows Experience Index measures the capability of your computer’s hardware and software configuration and expresses this measurement as a number called abase score. A higher base score generally means that your computer will perform better and faster than a computer with a lower base score, especially when performing more advanced and resource-intensive tasks.

While it is present by default in Windows, the feature has been taken off from Windows 8.1, so if you wish to operate on the latest OS while still enjoy the WEI, you can use this tool called as ChrisPC Win Experience Index.

What this tool does is that, it brings the Windows Experience Index back to your Win 8.1 OS so that you can run and check the performance of your machine’s hardware and software handling abilities. All you need to do is just install and run this tool, it will take some time in the backend and present you the results.

Using this tool you can know where is your PC’s abilities are lacking and what you should consider upgrading. If you wish to improve this score, there is only one thing that you can do, which is, to take care of your machine, clean the junks periodically and upgrade the low performing parts.

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Facebook to Officially Launch Graph Search for Mobile

Facebook is the most used social website today and you can find most of your friends on it too. So whether it is your lost old friend or someone who just met last night, chances are you can find them on Facebook. This is where Facebook Search comes pretty handy and if you remember Facebook had rolled out its Graph Search not so long ago.

The advantage that Graph Search has over usual search is that it makes it easy to search someone by suggesting the keywords like that of location, work and others. I like the Facebook Search feature a lot as I have been able to find most people using the Search (only those with some uncommon names as there are lots of people with common names).

Now since most of the people use Facebook through their mobile phones, Facebook has decided to launch the Graph Search for mobile users too. Graph search which is nothing just another way of using the Facebook search in your own natural language, is currently available for desktops and that too in English.

Facebook officials are aware that most people access the site from their hand held devices, thus they have decided to come up with the graph search on the portable devices too. The date of release is not yet announced by the officials however they have started working on the release.

According to Facebook, this Graph search feature on the mobile phone will help lot many users to find their buddies even on the go, easily.

Is this something that did interest you? Leave a comment.

Check if your Email ID Provider Leaks your IP Address

Since emails are the best way to officially communicate with someone anywhere in the world, it becomes really important to ensure the email address we are using is safe and secure. If the information we are exchanging online falls into wrong hands, then we might suffer at business. Hence we should ensure that the email address service we are using, is secure enough.

For all of you tech geeks out there, you know that IP address is one such information that can provide the information about the user and can also lead to its actual physical location. Every machine connected to the internet has got its own IP address and hence it is our responsibility to keep it secure.

But what you people might not know that every email which is received has got its header which is nothing but detailed information about the email received. So what should you do, is to check that if the header of your own email reveals or leaks your IP address or not.

Here is a service called as Email Leak Test (or Email IP Leak) which not only lets you know your own IP address but also allows you to see if your email service provider leaks your IP address or not. So here is what you need to do. Visit the service page, get started and copy the randomly generated email address listed there.

Now send out the email to this address and head back to the Email Leak Test webpage to see the result. If the page updates to show that IP address is leaked, then your header of the email is leaking it whereas if the page remains the same, then it is not. As you can see in the screenshot, Yahoo email service is leaking it for me.

So check the Email IP leak test for yourself and never use that email provider to send any confidential information.

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