Below are some useful links to companies and organisations. These are a source of information and products that may assist you for a better computing experience.

Windows updates can be found at :

http://update.microsoft.com/
(A broadband connection is advisable as these updates are often very large.)

Purchasing products :

A local supplier to the Portsmouth area (and internet retailer) is Novatech : http://www.novatech.co.uk

Other internet retailers offering competitive prices are :
Ebuyer : http://www.ebuyer.co.uk
CCL : http://www.cclonline.com/

Search facilities :

Google : http://www.google.co.uk/
Yahoo : http://uk.yahoo.com/

Free firewall software :
Ghostwall : http://www.ghostsecurity.com/products/
This works with newer 64 bit software!

Free antivirus software :
McAfee offer a free hard drive virus scan service, however you need to be connected to the internet for this to run : http://us.mcafee.com/

Alternatively - free antivirus software is available from Avast : http://www.avast.com/

Useful software that will help your computing experience :

Adobe Reader (for displaying .pdf files) : http://www.adobe.com/

CD / DVD burning software (to put data onto CD / DVD) : http://www.nero.com/

Powertoys for Windows : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/

Download.com for finding useful software : http://www.download.com/


iHampshire - The Hampshire Search Engine

Please Note : The links are in no way an endorsement of the products or services that these organisations offer and the links subject to change.