Today many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend on were victims of malicious “WannaCrypt” software. Seeing businesses and individuals affected by cyberattacks, such as the ones reported today, was painful. Microsoft worked throughout the day to ensure we understood the attack and were taking all possible actions to protect our customers. This blog spells out the steps every individual and business should take to stay protected. Additionally, we are taking the highly unusual step of providing a security update for all customers to protect Windows platforms that are in custom support only, including Windows XP, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2003. Customers running Windows 10 were not targeted by the attack today.

Cacheman is a software application designed to help you improve the performance of your computer by tweaking several operating system settings. It boasts a clean and straightforward interface that offers direct access to the processes that are currently running on the PC. You are allowed to kill or restart the selected process, as well as open the folder where the application is stored directly from the primary panel.

BoostSpeed scans your computer to pinpoint the issues that may be responsible for the slowdown, and provides a safe and easy way to fix them along with a complete kit of powerful tools to enhance every aspect of your PC's performance. At a click of a button it does all of the following (or only parts you want done): cleans out junk, fixes the registry, tweaks Windows and Internet settings, defragments the hard drive – all to get your PC running fast and smooth again.

Driver Reviver's employs one of the world's largest driver databases to quickly analyze all of your hardware devices and identify out of date drivers. You can then quickly and easily download and install the latest drivers to greatly improve the performance of your PC and its hardware.