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Your Internet Privacy Under Attack

March 31, 2017, 10:09(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Privacy Badger 2.0

December 13, 2016, 15:46(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Privacy Badger 2.0—a free browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera with new upgrades to help protect shoppers from online tracking.“

Search Engines I Use

February 13, 2016, 10:17(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

I use a variety of search engines depending on what I am looking for and which platform/OS I am using.
This article isn’t meant to influence your search engine preference but to hopefully introduce you to different options.
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Process Explorer 16

January 30, 2014, 08:08(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Process Explorer v16.0 released.
This version features VirusTotal integration.
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Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Classic Shell 4.0.4

January 19, 2014, 10:10(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Classic Shell 4.0.4 has been released.
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Classic Shell has been around for 4 years.
It has recently attracted attention from a wider audience because of its Start Menu add on/replacement called Classic Start Menu.
IMHO it is the best freeware Windows 8 start menu program.

Version 4.0.4 general release (Jan, 2014):
New ADMX files to allow controlling all settings through group policy
Secure download of language files and new versions
Multiple minor improvements and bugfixes

Google Chrome Updated

January 14, 2014, 14:47(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Chrome updated to version 32.0.1700.76 for Windows and version 32.0.1700.77 for Linux and Mac.
Download or update from within the program.
source: The Google Chrome Blog

This release contains a number of fixes and improvements, including:
-Tab indicators for sound, webcam and casting
-A different look for Win8 Metro mode
-Automatically blocking malware files
-A number of new apps/extension APIs
-Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
Flash Player has been updated to 12.0.0.41, which is included w/ this release.

Ultimate Windows Tweaker 3.0 for Windows 8

January 9, 2014, 14:26(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Ultimate Windows Tweaker version 3.0 has been released. It it’s for Windows 8 / 8.1 only.

Ultimate Windows Tweaker 3.0 for Windows 8 has been released and is now available for download. While Windows 7 & Windows Vista users should continue to use Ultimate Windows Tweaker 2.2, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 may be happy to know that your favorite freeware Windows tweaker is now available for download.