Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: MultiPack Visual C+ Installer

If you install a lot of applications – particularly ones developed with Microsoft Visual Studio – you accumulate a lot of different Visual C++ redistributable libraries. In our day-to-day computing, we rarely, if ever, think about these runtimes — even when an application starts behaving badly. But when one of these packages becomes corrupted, it can be the culprit causing applications and games to crash or fail to start.

Freeware guru Deanna McElveen shows you how to take charge with a freeware program called MultiPack Visual C++ Installer by “BobSpwg”

In the new AskWoody Plus Newsletter issue 16.6.0 – out this morning.

Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: Rons WebLynx

Don’t know about you, but my list of browser Favorites goes on and on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Tools in all of the browsers for managing links are rudimentary: They work fine if you have a hundred links, but when your collection swells to hundreds or even thousands, they just can’t keep up.

Enter Rons WebLynx from freeware guru Aaron Stewart. Intuitive, logical, and powerful.

Details in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.4.0, which went out this morning to all of our Plus members.

Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: ForensiT’s User Profile Wizard

ForensiT’s User Profile Wizard — is one of our favorites, and it’s popular with many computer techs. Have you needed to move your (or another user’s) computer profile to a new domain, or move a profile to a new user? If so, you know it’s a pain to manually copy their profile folder to the new one Windows creates. Likewise, the task of moving user settings and Outlook profiles is often a real mess. Windows roaming profile? Good luck getting that untangled.

There’s a solution – and it’s free.

See this week’s Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight in issue 16.2.0 of the AskWoody Plus Newsletter

Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: DiskInternals Linux Reader v3.3

Dual boot Linux? Need to access your Linux partition or drive from Windows?

Need to recover data from a customer’s Ext2/3/4, ReiserFS, Reiser4, HFS, HFS+, FAT, exFAT, NTFS, ReFS or UFS2 formatted drive but all you have with you is your Windows laptop?

This is the tool for you!

The program only allows read-only access so as not to damage the file system. It also ignores file security policies so you can grab anything you need.

Download from OlderGeeks.com:
https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=2403

Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: Malwarebytes AdwCleaner v7.2.5.0

Today we are gonna talk about a staple of any computer tune-up. An oldie but a goodie. Sure most of you are all like, “Pffft, been using this for years.” but there are some just-born computer techs out there that may be removing those initial crapware programs manually.

AdwCleaner is simple. No install needed. Just run, scan remove. You just knocked 30 minutes off of a computer tune-up. AdwCleaner is also great for any novice computer user to use. Send the link to mom so the next time you visit, your day does not have to begin with computer repairs!

https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=606

Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: Graph Paper Printer v4.03

We all know a teacher. You know, those under-paid people who spend their own money on classroom supplies for their students. Well, if this program helps one teacher not to have to order specialized paper, it’s worth it.

The Graph Paper Printer application was designed to help you print a variety of blank graph papers, including music manuscripts, Cartesian paper, Mercator paper, Polar paper, Dot paper, Hexagon patterns, Axonometric paper, Triangle, Hexagon and other paper patterns.

Download from The OlderGeeks:
https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=2635

Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: Intel Microcode Boot Loader v0.3

Some motherboard manufacturers have failed to release firmware updates to patch the Spectre vulnerability which allows speculative execution side-channel attacks (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754). Eran Badit has created this on-the-fly workaround which requires the creation of a bootable flash drive that is left in the system. The patch is engaged on every boot. Get the zip file from OlderGeeks.com ->

https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=2626

Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: HTTP Downloader

Back in ancient times (early 2000s) we all had file downloaders. They were all free. They all worked and — except for the occasional BonziBUDDY — they were all clean of junkware.

These days most of them are ridden with other %$#@! but not HTTP Downloader by Eric Kutcher. It’s free, it’s so so fast and easy to use. Go grab a copy->

https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=2614