Comments on: How to run your PC using only Freewares

By: Lakhya

Lakhya — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:06:43 +0000

@ stevae
I do agree with you that avg performs well above certain paid antivirus programs but you can never compare AVG free with paid programs like Norton Antivirus or Kaspersky Internet Security. From my experience I can tell you as far as virus detection goes AVG is up there with the top guys but when it comes to getting rid of them it will let you down almost most of the time. So, you should not risk your computers security with free programs. As far as music players go every one has their choice

By: stevae

stevae — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:00:58 +0000

I would love to know why you advise to buy a paid anti-virus, when avg performs much better, and with less performance robbed from your system?
Also, I am wondering why you didn’t mention winamp for a music player.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:18:47 +0000

For media players, there is one better; VLC (VideoLAN) Google it.

By: Lakhya

Lakhya — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:56:24 +0000

@ Thanks much appreciated I will be sure to try it ..

By: TBC

TBC — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:41:33 +0000

PDFCreator is a great piece of software that deserves mentioning.
It works like a printer, but it prints to PDF from whatever program you are printing from. If you burn the pdf’s to an RW disc and print them only when needed, you wind up saving a lot of paper and ink while maintaining records.

By: Pranjal

Pranjal — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:46:05 +0000

@ John Lee

Yes its a fact that paid software sometimes doesn’t works as advertised. It ultimately depends on the users tastes, we can just recommend.

By: John Lee

John Lee — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:57:55 +0000

I agree with all of this except the Anti virus section. What you should have said is that you must avoid paying for Norton as in some recent tests the free alternatives actually out performed it and didn’t kill your performance into the bargain. If you put AVG or Avast free versions on your computer and also put on Threatfire (free) you will have as good a protection as most people will need.

I see no point in getting involved in the OS argument as we all have our preferences. I have tried Ubuntu and liked it but I still use XP as it was on my computer when I bought it and didn’t pay extra as there was no option to buy without an OS. So in effect it was free, I know the companies add on a few dollars/pounds for it but as the computers are not available without it then that is the cost. As much as I like Ubuntu it will never be my favourite OS for the simple reason that XP is so much easier to use and it has all of the software I want to use.

By: Pranjal

Pranjal — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:44:35 +0000

@Pádraig Brady
I don’t think there is any firmware related thing there…….

By: Pádraig Brady

Pádraig Brady — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:59:47 +0000

Stumbledupon this; thumbs down because you’re confusing freeware (free firmware) with free software.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:53:08 +0000

Hmmmmmmm. Quote:

…without spending a penny apart from your Operating system…

And with the picture of the badges showing Tux, Beatie and the gnu, three free Operating System mascots shouldn’t we be suggesting that maybe Microsoft isn’t the only way to go?