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    Official Useful Utilities for your Dell Notebook Thread

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Forte, Jul 30, 2008.

  1. Forte

    Forte NBR's Supreme Angel

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    Lets come up with some useful utilities for your new or current Dell notebook, thats not bloatware. Some of the ones at the top of my mind.

    Antivirus
    AVG freeware antivirus

    Cleanup/Maintenance
    CCleaner - Great for cleaning up your computer's registry.

    Spyware/Adware
    Spybot Search & Destroy - Excellent spyware/adware killing program.

    Benchmarking
    3DMark06 - benchmark/GPU/CPU stresser

    Diagnostic
    Everest - monitor temps, quite accurate
    HWMonitor - monitor temps, quite accurate

    Overclocking/Undervolting
    RivaTuner - Overclocking/Undervolting
     
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    AVG freeware antivirus
    3DMark06 - benchmark/GPU/CPU stresser
    I8kFanGUI - control fan
    Everest - monitor temps, quite accurate
    HWMonitor - monitor temps, quite accurate
    RivaTuner - OC?
     
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