Must Have – Senior Tech Group

Must-Have Computer Tools and Software

Essential tools I always install on my computer and home network! Glenn

FaxZero.com – Send faxes for free to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada

GotFreeFax.com – Free Fax Service – Fax cover page plus 3 pages per fax maximum free, 2 free faxes per day maximum.

What is a Magnetic USB-C Charger? When brought closer to the port, the magnetic charger will instantly snap in place and disconnect if the cable is accidentally snagged.

PDF-XChange Editor – Those wishing to View/Edit/Modify and even OCR Image-based PDF files on their Windows PCs now have a FREE PDF reader alternative to the Adobe Reader! The PDF-XChange Editor is smaller, faster, and more feature-rich than any other FREE PDF Reader/PDF Viewer/PDF Editor. The FREE download of the PDF-XChange Editor is easy to use; the free version of the software offers 70% of the features without restrictions. Available without limitations for Private use.

Click Download the “64-bit MSI Installer” for Windows 10 and 11 computers, and it will start to download.
During the install process, select the free version for non-commercial use.

This is the PDF viewer I use on all of my Windows computers. To use all editing features, you will need to purchase a license; viewing, printing, and many other advanced features are free.

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. Find My Mouse – Double-press the left Ctrl key to activate a spotlight that focuses on the cursor’s position.

Convert Case: The Easy Way To Convert Text Between Upper Case, Lower Case, and Sentence Case. This online Case Conversion Tool is designed to allow you to convert blocks of text into any case and copy and paste them back into your own document.

No Monthly Cost Land-line Phone

Google Voice One number: a single phone number that rings all your phones – Google voicemail: voicemail like email – Voicemail transcription: read what your voicemail says –

Custom greetings: vary voicemail greetings by the caller – International calling: low-cost calls to the world – Block calls: send unwanted callers straight to voicemail – Record calls: record phone calls and store them online – Conference calls: join several people into a single call – Screen callers: hear who is calling before you pick up

A Google approach to email. – Gmail is a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful. And maybe even fun. After all, Gmail has:

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, network inventory, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, security benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

Wi-Fi Access Point – Outdoor POE Wi-Fi range extenders! NanoStation

Ninite installs software fast with default settings and says “no” to browser toolbars and other junk. Ninite runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background unattended and 100% hands-free. On My systems, I use Chrome, Firefox, Skype, iTunes, Picasa, Reader, CutePDF, Essentials, Flash, Flash (IE), Java, Google Earth, and FileZi

A NAT Router’s Inherent Security

Although NAT routers are not generally purchased for their security benefits, they inherently function as very effective hardware firewalls. As a hardware firewall, they prevent “unsolicited,” unexpected, unwanted, and potentially annoying or dangerous traffic from the public Internet from passing through the router and entering the user’s private LAN network.

OpenDNS is fantastic, and I recommend it to everyone. It’s safer and more responsive than any other DNS service.

Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.

EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a FREE ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management utility. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manages disk space easily, settles low disk space problem under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Win7/Win8

magicJack costs $35 plus shipping and handling. – One year of free local and long-distance calling to the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, along with all the other great magicJack features, are included with your initial purchase. An additional year of service is $39 for magicJack.

System Recovery Tools

Hiren’s BootCD 15.1 for Windows, Hiren’s Boot CD is a collection of open-source data recovery, backup, and anti-malware utilities.
Note: To download, go to the downloads page, scroll to the bottom of the page. The link is in the light green box (Filename: Hirens.BootCD.15.2.zip); this is a large file 592.5 MB. It may take 1 to 2 hours to download. How to run Hiren’s BootCD from USB Flash Drive.