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Avast 2012 examines your file booty | The Download Blog. Avast 2012 gets bigger antivirus cannons Avast continues to stay on top of the feature game by introducing bombastic top-shelf features to its security suites, while more subtly debuting an alternative source of revenue to the paid upgrade. Available exclusively from Download.com today, Avast Free Antivirus 2012 (download), Avast Pro Antivirus (download), and Avast Internet Security (download), the Czech security company gives its free users a useful batch of improvements, while keeping the paid upgrades competitive for those who an extra zing. Also worth noting is that Avast has modularized several new security components in an Avast Market. Avast did not update its Mac or Android security products.

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Excel puts lots of great tools on your desktop, but what each one of them does isn't always obvious, especially since so many Excel features are hidden. Would you like to create multiple lines of text within a cell? There's a keystroke for that. What if you want to reuse a chart's formatting on another chart, or print multiple worksheets on a single sheet of paper? Those aren't the only timesaving tools at your fingertips. Here's how to find and use them to work smarter in Excel. 1. As you've probably already discovered, when you’re typing text into a cell and you want to start a new line of text, the Enter key doesn't produce the desired result. Instead, to start a new line in Microsoft Excel, as you're typing text, press Alt-Enter. 2. What do you do when you need a quick calculation, such as adding the values of two cells?

3. Creating a series of charts for a project, such as an annual report, usually means that you need to format all of the charts similarly. 4. 5. How to start Windows 7 faster. High-performance PC hardware doesn't always deliver the speed users expect. But you probably shouldn't blame the hardware. The slowdown may be due to a software conflict. A reader named Abe Ibrahim contacted me last week to ask about his slow Windows 7 PC: My system: Asus Rampage III Extreme MB, Intel i7 980x CPU, 12GB Tri-Bus Memory, 128GB SSD (OS), and 9TB RAID-5 storage. One would think no matter what you ran, the system would scream through it. One of the greatest challenges PC users face is figuring out why the machines run so slowly.

Windows 7's built-in diagnostic tools can help you find the source of startup and other performance woes. TechRepublic's Greg Shultz explains how to use Windows 7's Event Viewer to root out the source of slow startups. Another option is to use Microsoft's free Process Monitor utility to find slow-loading startup items and figure out whether you need the laggards to start automatically.

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