A firewall is an important part of your computer's security setup. There's a basic firewall built into Windows and several major third-party firewalls are available. Here are five alternative free firewalls that are a bit less well known than the big names.

Windows Search has never been that great but being built into Windows, it's the default option. A better and more efficient solution is using the popular Everything search tool with an add-on that allows quick file searches from the Taskbar.