I have been dealing with cleaning up several family and friends computers from Viruses.  The majority of time they have a commercial program that is just not getting the job done.  There are several great antivirus programs and several not so great programs on the market.  The majority of the general computer population is unaware that there are a couple free options that offer great protection.  Below are the three that I highly recommend if you are looking for a free antivirus solution.  They are in no particular order as each of them has their pluses and minuses.

• Microsoft Security Essentials (Free Version Only)
• Avast (Free And Paid Version)
• AVG (Free And Paid Version)

If you have a home network and router you have probably struggled with port forwarding.  There are several different reasons why you might need to forward a port from you router to a system on your network.  One of the best resources I have found to help accomplish this is www.portforward.com.  This site has directions on how to accomplish port forwarding on almost every mainstream router that exists.  All you have to do is find your router in the list and click on it.  This will bring you to a long list of application.  Then all you have to do is find your application or game in the list and click on it.  You will then be provided with step by step instructions on how to add the port forwarding rules to your router.  So stop by and check out www.portforward.com.  I think you will find it very useful.  It is also great to send to family and friends so they can take care of this task themselves.

Portforward Site
http://www.portforward.com

With all the press coverage on so called god mode I started looking around for additional secret shortcuts in Windows.  There are allot of articles that cover shortcuts but one stood out from the group.  Ed Bott has a great article on ZDNET that covers 94 Windows shortcuts.  If you are interested in getting the most out of Windows 7 I highly suggest you read the article.  Stop back and let us know what you think!

94 More Secret Windows Shortcuts
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1630&page=2&tag=col1;post-1630