But PC maintenance is not as difficult as car maintenance. Because, most of the time you are only supposed to deal with the software issues that cripple the performance of your PC.

The reason for this may be anything, improper shutdown sequences, unauthorized software installation, registry errors and sometimes fragmented files on the hard disks and even temp files lead to these consequences.

This week, our ‘download of the week’ article details on one of the admirable system management tools. It’s a one click stop for the complete PC maintenance.

I tried the Advance System care for a while on one of my old PC running Windows XP SP2 and the ASC did a praise-worthy job in handling the stuff.

The ASC has a central control button called ‘Care’ which can be used to scan the complete PC for all kinds of errors including spywares, registry errors and other performance blockers. It does the scanning quickly and lists the errors on the screen which can be rectified using the ‘Repair’ button on the follow up.

If you choose to separately monitor each item, choose the links on the left pane of the window. For instance, the image below shows the screen that pops up when you click to individually ‘Maintain windows’.

From handling the junk files to clearing up disk fragmentation, tuning up registry files to managing bug fixes, the Advanced System Care does everything that’s necessary to keep your PC running.

The software also has two customizable skins which can be set for transparency and brightness, performs automatic updates (pro version) and is avaiable for free download in some 8MB size.

Precisely said, it’s one of the most affordable tool to improve pc performance. It is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.

Click here to free download Advanced System Care 3.

Click here to buy the Professional version for just $19.95 for unrestricted functionality.

Click here to know more about his product.

The new way to search using only your mouse Select text on any web page or document and KallOut does the rest.

Let’s quickly see what’s the basic purpose of KallOut. For the convenience of the readers I have taken tried to demonstrate the functionality of KallOut from within this post itself.

Once you have successfully installed KallOut just select the text from within supported application (in this case new way to search) and you’ll notice a small blue balloon marked with a red arrow in the screenshot below.

Now quickly take a look at what else can KallOut do for you. Boasts of searching information 10x faster (I am not sure how they calculated the 10x factor), KallOut actually reduces your search time. Not that Firefox, flock and mozilla did not have extensions which did this but KallOut does it with much more smartness and also provides support for many more applications than just Mozilla based browsers.

Following are various applications which are supported by KallOut and I am sure there’ll be more applications being supported in future.

To add a little spice to KallOut, I extracted the KallOut firefox extension and modified the RDF file to make it compatible with Flock and Mozilla. KallOut also has a great Dock, where you can send your searches for later review. You can checkout the other nitty grittys of KallOut at the Product Tour Page.

Following is a quick youtube demo of KallOut.

Please do let us know if you find a feature that’s not been covered by the official site.

Sorry my Indian brother’s, this offer is valid in US only (As if Indians don’t use Windows O/S at all). All you have to do is follow 3 simple (No free lunck!) steps to get your free edition of either of these software packages.

As it is free for all (only in US, which I was not aware off), I have all the rights to register for the packages but it turns out that until I agree for at least three webcast to get the software package, not only that but the free Windows Vista Business and 2007 Microsoft Office is available in US only. Its not over yet, there is more to it… I registered using FF (FireFox, Dude!) and after the registration completed I wanted to see the webcast I registered for, and it turns out that I HAVE to use IE to view the webcast (Now that’s lame).

Any way, people in US who have the patience to watch at least 3 webcast and use IE can get free Vista and Office 2007. Click here to get your free copy.

Good Luck!