I’ve written about WinPatrol and WinPatrol Plus a lot of times in the past because I believe that it’s a great tool for anyone who wants to make their computer run better and more safely. Tech Tip Want to see my other WinPatrol articles? Use the Google search box at the top right-hand side of [...]
A Better, and Free, Way to See What’s Running
Program: Process Explorer Author: Mark Russinovich, SysInternals Website: www.SysInternals.com A good thing came out of Mark Russinovich’s discovery of the Sony BMG music CD rootkits. I found his SysInternals.com web site and his free program Process Explorer. In my article svchost.exe – What is it and why are so many copies running?, I discussed viewing [...]
Software Review: 7-Zip Compression Utility
Program: 7-Zip, version 4.57 Publisher: Igor Pavlov www.7-zip.org Category: Compression/Decompression Archiving Utility 7-zip is open-source software and is licensed under a user-friendly license. You can download it for free and use it for free, including redistribute it (as long as you include the license with it). I’ve been trying 7-Zip recently as an alternative to Filzip — [...]
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