Frequent Windows maintenance is very important to keep our computer running in tip top shape. One of the first thing you should do in Windows maintenance is removing temporary junk files. Most of your Windows applications create temp files on your hard disk when they are running. These files are supposed to be removed but not all programs do it automatically. The temp files may have been accumulated to megabytes since you have begun using your PC, and they can waste large amounts of your hard drive space without you knowing it! This will lead to the reducing of free space on your hard disk, fragmentation and reduction of the system performance.
Even when a computer is being infected by virus of spyware, the first thing you should do before running a scan is to delete all temp files. Without a doubt that CCleaner is one of the best free program to clean up junks and it supports cleaning many third party applications temp files.
Here’s another great temporary file cleaner which is very small in size (49.5 KB) and widely recommended by malware cleaners.
ATF (A Temporary File) Cleaner is a free temporary file cleaner for Windows Windows 98/ME/2K/XP and Vista, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera with a simple, easy-to-use interface. This tool is commonly recommended by malware cleaners in forum to clean the temporary files in your computer before running a scan with HijackThis.
The main screen allows the user to either clean all temporary files, or select files for cleaning. The program also knows if Firefox and or Opera is being used, and gives the option of cleaning the temporary files associated with those applications. ATF Cleaner provides the user with a window showing the total bytes freed upon completion. The program is small (49.5 KB), quick to run and no installation required.
Note for Vista users: On Windows Vista that “Windows Temp” is disabled, to empty “Windows Temp” ATF-Cleaner must be “Run as an Administrator”.
My favorite and I believe it’s also majority’s favorite BitTorrent client, µTorrent version 1.7 stable is finally here!
and a window will open. At the left pane, click on the icon that looks like this 
, uncheck the first option and press ENTER key to close the window.
If you didn’t know, Kaspersky has superior proactive detection! In the latest tests, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 was awarded the highest certification—Advanced+, which confirms the program has the highest level of detection of new malicious programs with minimal false positives using the antivirus program’s heuristic analyzer. Some malicious programs are very hard to remove from the computer, because they use various methods to mask their presence in the system (including via rootkits) and to avoid detection and removal by antivirus programs. So we need really good antivirus to protect our computer from viruses.
