Speed up windows 7

The Ultimate Guide to Speed up Windows 7

1. Disabling the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7

   • Right Click the “Computer” Icon in the desktop and select “Manage”.
   • Click “Services and Applications” in the “Computer Management” window.
   • Click on “Services”.
   • You can see a lot of services listed there. Look for “Windows Search” in that.
   • Right Click on “Windows Search” from the list and choose “Properties”.
   • The “Windows Search Properties Window” will open up. From “Startup type” click on the drop down menu and choose “Disabled”.
   • Click “Apply” then “OK” and that’s it. The Windows 7 Search Indexing Feature is now disabled.
Most of the Windows 7 users do less searches in there system. The Search Indexing service in Windows 7 will index keeps track of the files so that they can be found quickly when asked at some other time. This feature is useful only if you perform frequent searches on your system. For occasional file searchers the Search Indexing service in Windows 7 is a total resource hog. It unknowingly eats up your system resources. What you need from windows 7 is maximum performance from it then i would certainly recommend you to disable this resource hogging Windows 7 Search Indexing Feature. To Disable the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7 If you want to completely disable the search indexing feature in Windows 7 you can set the Search Indexing Service to Manual (See the above method about disabling unwanted services).

Anti spyware

Free Anti-Spyware
a-squared free	Removes Trojans, Worms, Keyloggers, Dialer and Spyware/Adware from your PC. The free version does not offer real-time protection.
Arovax AntiSpyware	Free anti-spyware program for Windows; sponsored by user forum.
Browser Hijack Retaliator	Internet Explorer protection. Prevents IE from being 'taken over' by malicious scripts and ActiveX controls.
Damage Cleanup Engine	Freeware spyware removal program for Windows. Terminates malware instances in memory, removes malware entries from registry and system files, scans and deletes malware from local hard drives.
Spybot Search & Destroy	Freeware spyware removal and detction program for Windows.
Spyware Detector	Scans for spyware/malware for free; spyware removal is not free though.
Spyware Terminator	Free anti-spyware program with real-time protection, manual and scheduled scan, safe quarantine, automatic update, etc.
SpywareBlaster	Free windows program which protects against spyware: prevents the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted software. blocks spyware/tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox, restricts the actions of potentially unwanted sites in Internet Explorer.
SuperAntispyware	Free anti-spyware program for home use; runs on Windows. There is also a more advanced pro version available for $ 29.95.
ThreatExpert	ThreatExpert can detect viruses and other malware residing inside your computer's memory. It does not attempt to remove them from your harddisk though. Freeware for Windows. There is a 32 bit edition and a 64 bit edition. This virus scanner does not run in the background, it only performs its duty when you tell it to do so - which is a thing we like.

Linux firewalling! Sounds fun right!?

Beginners Guide To Fire walling with Linux
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I. INTRODUCTION

     Let me guess? You just bought your brand new version on linux, and now you are feeling really 1337ish so you decide you are going to port scan yourself. So then you do, and now you are scared. You probably had at least 10 ports open, including ftp, telnet, ssh, pop3, and some other scary ports that you know are just creeping with security flaws.
     So now you decided that you don't want all these ports open. Now you jump out onto the net in search of a firewall. Well, unlike windows, people on *nix normally configure their own firewalls. Why? Think about it which is more 1337ish? To have a firewall that you configured on your own to show your friends, or one that you downloaded from ZoneAlarm.com?

II. KERNEL FUN

     Now for the fun part. Getting started. Log into root, and you are ready to begin. First off, I would like to say that this tutorial is for the 2.4.x kernel, and if you don't have it by now... You are leaving yourself open to more than I can help you with right now, so do yourself a favor and download the newest kernel from kernel.org.
     If you already have the 2.4.x kernel installed. Check to see if iptables is turned on in the config. If it is, then just skip down until after the compilation part. If not, then you get the wonderful learning experience of learning to compile and configure your kernel. Read up on this in /usr/share/doc/howto/en on the file called Kernel-HOWTO. This should lead you through the steps. Just make sure that you check iptables under Network Options, and then check every single option under Netfilter Options.
     Now follow the rest of the directions and boot into your new 2.4.x kernel. The next task we get tackle is downloading and installing the iptables program (doens't make since that it doesn't come preinstalled does it?) Well you can get this at http://netfilter. kernelnotes.org/ then just install the rpm (rpm -i iptables1.2). Now, reboot (you could continue without, but it will run choppy).

III. SCAN YOUR PORTS

     Now you also need a little program called nmap, which can be aquared from www.insecure.org/nmap/. This little program really helps, it allows you to scan yourself and find exactly what ports are open. So, download and install this. Then enter the command, nmap -sS <your i.p> (from root) it should list all the ports that you have open now. Surprised? Never thought that a brand new user would have that many ports open did you? Time to close them. You should have gotten a report like this:

Port  State  Service
21/tcp  open  ftp
22/tcp  open  ssh
23/tcp  open  telnet
25/tcp  open  smtp
37/tcp   open  time
79/tcp  open  finger
80/tcp  open  http
...  ...  ...
...  ...  ...

and so on...

IV. FIREWALLS HERE WE COME!

     These are the ports that we have to close. For this, we call up our iptables command. To close off the port you simple type:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j REJECT

     This tells iptables that you want to add a link, thats controls input, on a tcp port 21, and you want it to reject everything. After entering this command, you should either have closed or filtered in the State category if you do an nmap. Well, as you can see, that would be a lot of work to enter every single one of those commands every time you reboot (the closing of the port is only temporary). So how about we make a bash script? Simply place this script in /bin or /usr/bin under the name firewall.

#!/bin/bash
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j REJECT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j REJECT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 23 -j REJECT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j REJECT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 37 -j REJECT 
... .... .... .... .... ...
echo Great job shraps! Firewall is intact!

     Now we can just run firewall everytime we reboot. However, switching into root is a pain for just one command so why not use the su -c firewall command? This makes things much easier.

V. OPENING A PORT AGAIN

     So you have all your ports firewalled? Let's say that now you would like to run an ftp server. But remember? You closed up the ftp port with your firewall. How are we gonna fix this? Simple, just type:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT

    Now you can just edit your firewall program, and put a # in front of the ftp port to comment that line out. Congratulations, now you have a working firewall.

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