Microsoft's security suite, Windows Live OneCare, has taken a fair bit of heat from its initial release - not least from Tom Raftery. The second version quietly made it out on to the web a few weeks back and it has some interesting new features I've been impressed with. OneCare is another good, consumer, example of our Software + Services initiative and with 10gb of cloud storage on offer through the program it's going to be one to watch closer. Let's take a look at a few of the improvements.

Start-time optimizer/turn off unused programs  
There are programs out there like PC Decrapifier which do a good job of something you really shouldn't have to do with a PC - clean up the startup process. So many programs decide that they're the most important thing on the PC and install themselves as a startup service. Ridiculous stuff like QuickTime, RealPlayer, Acrobat and others (Microsoft is no angel here). If you wonder why your PC boots slower and slower over time, this is a major factor and the Start-time optimizer in OneCare tries to help. It's not perfect, especially when you see stuff like Host Process in the list of removes but this is much cleaner for most people to use than MSConfig.