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I use the free one; not installed or paid for

Posted By: Renee on 2008-01-21
In Reply to: Windows Live OneCare - blondie

I think the free (run-it-when-you-need-it) is great! Sure, the real-time protection and monitoring would be great, but I'm on a budget, and I can run their free version as often as I would like (takes about 2 hours, so usually right before I go to bed) and it finds all kinds of alleged 'problems' and I tell it to fix them, and it does. Sure seems to have been helping me, but it could be that in combination with all the other things I'm trying.
My husband tried the 'free trial' on his laptop that you actually download for real-time coverage, and it apparently REALLY bogged his computer down (so he says) and he had to take it off within a couple of days.
Any help?


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Can anyone tell me what the name of the free SM

wav player is?  I think it is E something or the other.


Thanks for your help.


Chickadee


Please tell me the name of a FREE
Thanks!
This one is not free. If someone KNOWS of one
Thanks.