Essential tools to manage your PC -- WinPatrol

WinPatrol

WinPatrol allows you to get a better understanding of what programs are being added to your computer. It monitors important system areas that are commonly altered by many malicious programs. This includes the startup groups (registry and startup folder), cookies and active tasks. You can terminate processes and enable or disable startup programs. The cookie monitoring option allows you to automatically delete cookies based on a keyword found in the cookie name. Additional features include a WHOIS lookup tool and an option to alert you on changes. WinPatrol is easy to understand, yet quiet powerful. Optional upgrade to a Plus version available.

Platform:
98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista

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Essential tools to manage your PC -- Whats Running

Whats Running

Whats Running provides you with detailed information for all system processes, services, programs, modules etc. that are currently running on your system. Furthermore, it includes information for currently active IP/Internet connections, as well as an interactive Startup Manager to to view, edit and disable startup programs. The process viewer includes detailed specs for each process, including memory usage, GDI objects, modules and more. Additional features include options to start/stop processes and services, online database for additional process information and an option to take a snapshot of the current state.

Platform:
NT/2000/XP

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Essential tools to manage your PC -- TuneUp Utilities 2008

TuneUp Utilities 2008

TuneUp Utilities optimizes the performance of your computer, corrects problems and helps you to customize your system to suit your needs. It combines important aspects of system configuration, security, cleaning and maintenance under a modern interface. You can remove unnecessary files from your hard disk(s), clean and optimize the registry, tweak your internet connection settings, recover deleted files, optimize memory and more. In addition, you can analyze your system, receive automatic suggestions for potential performance improvements and view detailed hardware information. TuneUp Utilities also includes an Uninstaller, Registry Editor, Task Manager and even an Undelete tool to recover files that have been deleted from the recycle bin. A very nice tool, with many features that will appeal to novice as well as advanced users.

Platform:
2000/XP/Vista

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