Features

Allowing you to buy and download any of Valve's games, like the recent, fantastic Left 4 Dead 2, Steam also has a huge library of titles from other big developers, as well as free demos and videos. The list of games is ever increasing, and it also supports non-commercial things like game mods.

Usability

Installing and setting up a Steam account is really easy, and the download manager is very stable. Whatever your internet connection speed, you don't need to worry about stopping a download partway through. If you exit Steam, it will continue your downloads the next time you start it without complaints.

While you miss out on a box or instruction booklet by buying games from Steam, you do get all the latest patches and updates downloaded automatically. There are often exclusive demos and offers available through Steam too, and there's a great community service which allows you to join groups and find people to play online. Its major downfall is that the client auto-updates far too often.

Improvements

This new version of Steam has a much improved interface, with a better news stream and cleaner overall feel. The layout is much simpler, allowing you to quickly navigate between games, available demos and videos. There's a game wishlist feature, and your game library now has real time search and customizable categories.

Conclusion

Steam may not sell every game under the sun, but it's an excellent download application featuring some of the best PC gaming you can find, and the best community features found in PC gaming.

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When you run CCEnhancer, the program adds support for over 270 new applications, which means that from that moment on you can use CCleaner to remove any traces left by those as well.

CCEnhancer is dead simple to use: just run the EXE file, and the program will automatically update your current CCleaner installation with support for those new programs – obviously including only those that are installed on your system. After that, when you run CCleaner again, you’ll see all the newly included programs in the Applications list, with an asterisk beside the name.

CCEnhancer does what it says on the tin and we didn’t have any issues during our testing. Just please remember it’s a non-official plug-in, so you should use it at your own risk.

Add support for more than 270 new apps to CCleaner thanks to CCEnhancer.

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Garena currently supports quite a limited number of games but does include some major titles such as Age of Empires I and II, Battlefield 2, Bordelands, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 and 2, Call Of Duty: World At War, Counter Strike: Source, Call Of Duty 2, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, Red Alert 3, Starcraft, Team Fortress 2 and Warcraft 3.

When you download and install Garena, you have to create and account to log into the Garena network. You will be assigned an avatar that will identify you within the Garena community. You can instantly see who is online and which players are at a similar ability to you. Garena seems somewhat more focused on some games more than others though e.g. World of Warcraft 3, for which there is even an online video channel and high-level championship mode.

To communicate with other gamers, Garena has its own Instant Messaging and internal mail system and forums to discuss gaming issues. There's also a points system for those users with more experience and forum activity.

Garena isn't compatible with enough major titles but for those it does work with, it's a simple way of finding like-minded gamers.

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Installer feature monitors all the changes a program makes when you install it. Tenebril Uninstaller remembers these changes, so when you uninstall the same program nothing is left behind.

Lets you view and change which programs run when you first start your computer. Gives you complete control over your start menu, letting you add and remove elements as you see fit.

Manages cookies for you, letting you keep the ones you want and delete the ones you don't. Searches your registry for dead keys. Includes an undo feature that lets you remove keys with confidence, knowing you can always get them back.

Includes an undo feature that lets you remove keys with confidence, knowing you can always get them back.

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F.E.A.R 3 is definitely an adult game, with very mature themes and a terrifying atmosphere. Players control one of the two sons of the psychically powerful Alma, who is getting more powerful despite her death!

Trailers for F.E.A.R 3 show that the spine tingling atmosphere has been maintained, though it's unclear whether the somewhat complicated story will be well enough explained for newcomers to the franchise! The four multiplayer modes in F.E.A.R 3 look interesting, especially one that sees player having to fight through enemies while being pursued by a 'wall of death' that threatens to swallow then up.

The success of Left 4 Dead has shown that good cooperative multiplayer games can be great and also very successful, but will F.E.A.R 3 manage to stay fresh enough catch on?

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The beauty of the Last.fm Scrobbler is that it encourages you to find similar artists to the ones you already like and pushes you to interact with users who share the same tastes. Search results appear as a tag cloud, with the biggest elements being the most popular. With thousands of songs available on Last.fm, it’s pretty unlikely that you’ll listen to the same thing twice. The Last.fm Scrobbler is streamed and you’ll have to be connected to the internet and have a Last.fm account for it to work.

Although slightly bulky, the Last.fm Scrobbler is sleek and accessible. We like the shiny control icons and the “now playing” window. This is where you’ll find artist information like album cover, a small description of the artist, related tags and artists and top listeners. The Last.fm Scrobbler menu bar on the left includes your recently played tracks, recently loved and recently banned, although to listen to these you’ll need to upgrade your Last.fm account.

With the Last.fm Scrobbler, you can connect to neighbors' stations and listen to their tunes. The lists of the friends you made on Last.fm will also appear on your player. If you have the Audioscrobbler plug-in installed, Last.fm Scrobbler can also track all the songs you play in your favorite desktop music app (like iTunes) and connect you with even more neighbors.

Most of us here at Softonic have Last.fm connected all day, simply because it doesn’t require you to have your own music library, it’s free and provides an endless flow of new tunes. In line with modern evolutions in online music, Last.fm Scrobbler mixes streaming and social tools to give you an exciting music player.

The Last.fm Scrobbler - no music fan should be caught dead without it.

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Some programs are very easy to install, but a real pain to uninstall. A good example of this is Windows Live Messenger.

If you don't like it at all or prefer to use an older version- which requires uninstalling the one currently present on your system – your only option is WLMUinstaller, a handy tool that helps you get rid of this stubborn IM client.

WLMUinstaller doesn't require installation and is dead simple to use: run the program and it'll automatically detect which version of Windows Live Messenger is installed on your system. Then click Uninstall and after a few minutes, Microsoft's IM client will be gone.

WLMUinstaller doesn't perform a clean uninstallation – in fact, there'll be some traces left on your system – and doesn't give you any clue about how much is going - no percentage, no progress bar. But at least Windows Live Messenger won't bother you again.

If you want to get rid of Windows Live Messenger once and for all, WLMUinstaller is the tool you're looking for.

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If you're looking for a plainly simple image viewer, you've come to the right place: here's VJPEG, a photo viewer that displays images right on your desktop.

After installing it, VJPEG takes over the native Windows image viewer and opens all JPG, BMP and GIF files on the desktop. Images are opened as is, in other words, without any additional frames, windows or interface: just the image itself.

So without any interface, how do you manage images in VJPEG? Easy: with mouse and keyboard combinations. VJPEG lets you drag and move images around the desktop with the mouse and close them with a right click. If you want to resize them (just for viewing purposes, no actual size changes are applied) stick the image to the left screen edge and drag it. Other tools available in VJPEG are rotating, zooming in and out, adjusting levels and even sending by email.

VJPEG is a good solution for those who want just a simple photo viewer without all the bells and whistles of other programs. I miss having some kind of documentation though, as well as having a nicer icon for my graphic files, which lose their standard icon as soon as they're associated with VJPEG. Other extra options, like being able to minimize or tile images, would be nice too.

VJPEG replaces Windows default image viewer with a dead simple app that displays pictures right on the desktop and lets you drag and resize them with the mouse.

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HS Cleandisk is a Windows system optimizer which cleans hard disk and system registry, optimizes memory, adjust system specific settings, accelerates internet connection, maintains security as well as un-installing software no longer wanted.

It automatically detects the system and dynamically organizes itself accordingly. In short, it is a great all-in-one package.

Available Functions are:

FILE FUNCTIONS

• File Cleaning : Search and Delete garbage, temporary files, cookies and invalid shortcuts which occupy the drives.

• Duplicate Finder: Search and Delete files which have the same copy on the disk. (Red,Yellow,Green Icons representing how secure is to delete them)

• Shared Folders: Locate and Disable folders which can be seen and shared by others

• Wipe Files: Permanently delete files so they cannot be recovered even by using restoration software.

REGISTRY CLEANING

Registry Cleaning :Search and Remove invalid entries in system registry.

SOFTWARE UNINSTALLER

• Software Uninstaller List and Uninstall software installed on the system. Detailed information such as their install location and occupied size are available.

RESOURCES

• CPU Information

• Driver Information

• Memory Defragmenter: Reclaim unused memory left from dead applications in other words, increase free memory size

• Folder Usage: Pie chart representation of all directories located on drives. Useful when largest folders on the system are needed.

• Folder Explorer: Sorted view of all file system. Useful when largest files or folders on the system are needed.

ADVANCED FUNCTIONS(Red,Yellow,Green Icons representing how secure is to apply them)

• Functions: More than 10 useful Windows default tools to keep system stable and healthy: such as check disk and disk defragmenter utilities
• Optimization: Various system, memory, cpu optimization tweaks
• Security: Various tweaks for increasing security while using internet
• Cleaning: Cleaning history of various applications and clipboard cleaner
• Internet Accelerator: Tweaks related to internet connection to improve internet browsing
• Misc: More than 10 useful tweaks related to different area or the system.
• Applied Tasks: All applied tweaks described above can be listed in this section.

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