Tag: WINPATROL

Tech favorite WinPatrol -- a great tool for keeping an eye on system processes and files -- has been updated to 20.0.2011. Support for 64-bit Windows installations has been improved, and WinPatrol is generally more responsive now than in previous versions. WinPatrol's "move to delayed start" option provides a nice way to improve your system's startup time, and it has also been tweaked for better ...

WinPatrol has been a favorite with geeky types for quite some time. It's an amazing little tool to complement your antivirus software and keep tabs on what's going on inside your system. It also comes in two flavors: the basic version (free) and a 'plus' version with free lifetime upgrades ($29.95). In what he's describing as an experiment, WinPatrol's developer Bill Pytlovany has decided ...

It's become a common practice to defend your PC with a handful of security apps rather than relying on a single program. One lesser-known app worth investigating is WinPatrol. Just released, WinPatrol 2010 builds on the strengths of previous versions. It's now even lighter on memory use, weighing in at about 5Mb on my Windows 7 x64 system. Scotty's also learned to play nice by tweaking internal ...

Knowing what's going on inside your OS is critical to keeping it running smoothly. Sure, task manager and msconfig are built-in to Windows, but they're pretty minimalistic. For something with a little more punch, give Winpatrol a shot - we first looked at it in 2005, and it's bigger and better than ever. Winpatrol offers a software "Swiss-army knife" of features for protecting and tuning your ...

One of my biggest pet peeves is software that when installed, assumes that I want to let it launch at startup, rather than when I want it to launch. Adobe Acrobat installs a utility to speed up launching Acrobat, for example, but all that really does is to pre-load parts of Acrobat, even when it's not needed. So, you end up with a computer that boots more slowly, and resources that are wasted in ...