Support Tools and Downloads
This page contains links to downloads
and sites that can help you get the most out of your Internet service.
PCHG is not responsible for support of any third-party products and
downloads featured here.
UPDATES and SECURITY
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Keep your Windows operating system up to date by visiting Windows Update on a regular basis. Windows operating systems contain many vulnerabilities right out of the box, and Internet-connected PCs should be updated often for maximum safety and reliability. Windows Update requires Internet Explorer. |
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If your computer has Windows XP, you should install Service Pack 2. It contains many important security fixes and an enhanced firewall. We strongly recommend applying this update to Windows XP. |
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Trend Micro's free web-based Anti-virus scan site. This free service will scan your computer for viruses without requiring you to download and install a dedicated program. |
SOFTWARE and TOOLS
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 Installer. Click here to download the installer for the latest version of Internet Explorer and Outlook Express directly from Microsoft. |
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Mozilla Firefox is a lightweight, fast, and powerful browser for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. It features pop-up window blocking and high standards compliance. It's free, open source, and constantly being improved. And it generally displays web pages faster over slow connections - we recommend it for dial-up users. |
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a powerful and easy-to-use mail client for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. Thunderbird features advanced spam detection routines along with strong security and privacy protection. Like its sister application, Firefox, it is free and open source. |
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Lavasoft's popular Ad-Aware software scans and removes insidious "spy-ware" from your Windows computer. You should install and frequently use this software if you tend to install a lot of shareware/freeware programs on your system, particularly peer-to-peer file sharing applications. |
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Sometimes upgrading to a newer version can be a good thing. Other times, your computer may not be compatible with the new version, the new version is bloated, or all the good options are no longer available. OldVersion.com archives previous versions of 50 different popular programs, including media players, file sharing programs, image viewers, instant messaging clients, and system utilities - because newer is not always better. |
FREE OPERATING SYSTEMS
These are advanced operating systems that provide
the stability, security, compatibility, and power that keep most of the servers
on the Internet humming. The newest releases are right at home on the desktop
too. If you want feature-filled, open source, no-cost alternatives to the
ubiquitous commercial operating systems, you must check out FreeBSD and Linux,
and prepare to live with far fewer security and virus headaches.
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The GNU/Linux operating system comes in many flavours. Go here for information and an introduction to Linux fundamentals. |
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FreeBSD is another UNIX-like OS for the PC, similar to GNU/Linux. FreeBSD tends to be more secure and more logical to configure, though doesn't receive quite as much attention. As a server OS it is virtually unbeatable. |
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Fedora is the free Linux system from Red Hat, currently earth's most popular Linux distribution. |
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Go here to download the latest burnable ISO CD images for FreeBSD and various Linux distributions. |
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