VIRTUAL MACHINES
VirtualBox
It doesn’t have all the features and polish of the paid services, but Oracle’s
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operating system that runs on an Intel chip, inside another OS such as
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Shade
Here’s a simple way to sandbox existing applications that may be under threat
(a browser, for example): Open Shade, paste in the shortcut for the software you
want to protect, then launch it—the running program is sandboxed safely from
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WINDOWS ENHANCERS
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This system-information utility does the most thorough audit of
your computer and peripherals you’ll ever see. Pick the version you need for
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version can run from a thumb drive.
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background to work. Save your searches for use again later.
Ultimate Windows Tweaker
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all. That includes many privacy tweaks.