Providence Computers, Your Local Computer Solutions Provider. 1421 B Kempsville Rd. Chesapeake, VA 23320
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Software Support Center:

Providence Computers uses quality components from only trusted brand names. For your convience we've provided links below to all of our component's manufacturers driver download pages. Below you will find links to the manufacturer's drivers download pages, and a brief description of each manufacturer.

Below our manufacturer's drivers section you will find a selection of software that Providence Computers trusts, and has verified are both quality software and not malware. All software in this section is freeware and doesn't cost a thing (download, install, then use). We fully endorse these freeware programs as they are either open source or are trusted in the field of computer repair.

NVIDIA is the world leader in visual computing technologies.


Designs, manufactures and markets chipsets and video cards for use in desktop, laptop, digital set-top boxes, TV and media gateways.

Global supplier of integrated circuits for personal and networked computing and communications.

Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors.


Server and high-end desktop motherboard manufacturer. Includes drivers, BIOS, support, technical reference and reseller links.

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally.

Creative is the worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for the personal computer and the Internet.

Ralink is a global leader in 802.11x chipset solutions for wireless communications.

Broadcom Corporation is an American supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for broadband communications.


Design, test, and distribute ICs for consumer electronics, telecom devices, computer peripherals, multimedia and communication network hardware.

Adaptec manufactures a family of Fibre-to-SATA RAID enclosures.

Maintain the leading position by offering highest-performing, value-added products and highest-quality services to channel and OEM's markets.

3Ware is a major manufacturer of RAID controllers for SATA, and PATA devices.


Providence Computers Recommended Software:

Open Office:
OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages like the Microsoft Office Suite.
http://www.openoffice.org/
Firefox:
The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Thunderbird:
Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.
http://www.mozilla.com/thunberbird/
7zip
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio and is open source software.
http://www.7-zip.org/
Cd Burner XP Pro
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface.
http://cdburnerxp.se/
Cute PDF Writer
Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.1 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Foxit Reader
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
http://www.gimp.org/
Irfanview
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
http://www.irfanview.com/
ISO Recorder
ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder.
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
VLC
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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