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Windows Live OneCare safety scanner: Free online tool for PC health and safety

This has been around for a while, but it is no longet in beta - scan a PC to see how it is doing!

Get a free PC safety scan

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is a free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC.

  • Check for and remove viruses
  • Get rid of junk on your hard disk
  • Improve your PC's performance
Fix specific PC issues

Use the full service scan to check everything. To help fix particular problems on your PC, turn to the individual scanners below.

Protection center
Protection

Clean up center
Clean up

Tune up center
Tune up

Source: Windows Live OneCare safety scanner: Free online tool for PC health and safety

Posted Mon, Oct 16 2006 3:26 PM by David Overton
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Terry Howe wrote re: Windows Live OneCare safety scanner: Free online tool for PC health and safety
on Thu, Feb 8 2007 11:13 AM

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Microsoft's error reporting has never solved anything for me under XP.

And to trust them to scan and sort any computer problems from afar..............you must be kidding...........

Already I have got a 6 month old scanner that will not work

under Vista (no  driver).............

I don't think that the following quoted from above is clear....."Use the full service scan to check everything. To help fix particular problems on your PC, turn to the individual scanners below"

David Overton wrote re: Windows Live OneCare safety scanner: Free online tool for PC health and safety
on Thu, Feb 8 2007 11:28 AM

Terry,

just to clear up the text, you can either scan everything, or just one particular facit of your computer.

On the Windows Update information - well, your bug reports are analysed and we use them to fix bugs in our products and to inform 3rd party product owners what they need to fix.  While you may not feel this helps, I have seen several problems that when I go back to the site, it tells me there is a fix.  In Vista, to avoid having to go back to the site, the tool on your PC tells you if soemthing you are seeing a problem with is fixed.

Finally, did you run the upgrade advisor on Vista to check your hardware?  It would be nice to get the logs if you did to see if it thought the scanner was fine or not.

thanks

David

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