Various Information

Excellent free utility software (Tips ivm gratis software) (install them all at once)

• Firewall: ZoneAlarm


• VirusScan: AVG or Avast.
  
• With Panda Cloud Antivirus you don't have to install big packages (nederlandse tekst)
  
• Alternative: with Google Pack you get a 6-month free subscription to Norton Antivirus (choose which features you want).


• Adobe acrobat: for reading pdf files
• convert pdf to excel: http://www.pdftoexcelonline.com/
• convert pdf to Word: http://www.pdftoword.com/


• Ghostview & Ghostscript: to view ps files


• Irfanview: to view and edit images (+ slideshow, press w) (documentatie)


• Ultra-edit: hexidecimal editor


• WinSCP: simple program to ftp your files


• Seamonkey: free web browser, comes with the simple webpage editor Composer.


• HJSplit: for easily splitting files (to put a large file on multiple floppies, for example)

• Online photoshoppen: http://blogs.tijd.be/tzine/2009/05/photoshoppen-op-elke-computer.html

Keep your PC in good shape

• Always backup your important files!! Especially before trying the tools below.
  
• Backup software
• Backup Maker (Standard Version is for free) (lees hier)
  
• Tip: use SyncToy to synchronize two folders (one can be on an external hard disk) (lees hier)

• 99 to make your PC blazingly fast (Help Desk Geek)
• the 10 tips selected by Data News (they can be trusted, are free from spyware and virusses and free from charge)
• Smart Defrag (better than the standard defragment tool of Windows)
• defragment your Windows pagefile and registry (seems interesting)
  
• CCleaner: cleans up and repairs (also registry)
• Semi-automatically update the drivers with DriverMax
• Repair task bar (tasks are invisible, etc.) (another tip of T-zine)

• Pandora Recovery: Free tool to recover deleted files


• PC or Hard drive crash? Data recovery is possible, but expensive

My favourite software

• Photoshop (a demo)
• Photoshop tutorials
• For simple operations, Irfanview suffices
  
• Visio
• Nero (for burning CDs)

See your drive from a pc at the VUB (eg student homes):

• in Control Panel => Network Settings => WINS server:
• 134.184.21.25
• 134.184.17.75

Cheap, Good PC's

• Lambermontlaan 47, 1030 Brussel (bij de Van Praet brug), 02/215.05.11, di tot vr 10-18u, zaterdag, 10-16u
• Kolomstraat 56, 1080 Brussel, 02/736.74.74 (magazijn)