WinPatrol 28.9

WinPatrol lets you both protect and maintain your computer
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35.5.2017 See all
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BillP Studios
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WinPatrol is a powerful process manager. It’s a very comprehensive task manager focused on providing your system with additional protection against unwanted malware. It also includes effective system maintenance, tweaking and optimization tools such as a neat startup manager. Its main purpose is putting you in control over what's running in your computer and letting you prevent any unwanted system changes. Though it might sound like an intricate application meant to be used by experts and experienced users, the simple and intuitive tabbed interface allows anyone to use this powerful tool without any problems. Even complete beginners can handle it without trouble, as plenty of hints and explanations are displayed all over the main panels. Simply put, it’s extremely self-explanatory and straightforward.

Besides managing the startup entries, it also lets you manage the services, the IE Helper entries, the running processes (called “active tasks”), the cookies, the file associations, and so on. As you can see, it’s pretty comprehensive and feature-rich. The non-free WinPatrol PLUS version sports even more features and functions.

To sum it all up, if you really care about maintaining your system infection-free, you should consider installing WinPatrol, as it’s really powerful and effective at keeping your computer clean and at putting you in control over all running processes.

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Margie Smeer
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Pros

  • It can even help experts block Trojans, rootkits, worms and other similar infections
  • Comprehensive and feature-rich
  • Easy-to-use

Cons

  • Some tabs are only available in the paid PLUS version

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Wormsworth
Easy to use, non obtrusive, except when the dog barks (usually for a good reason) Smile Many helpful options.

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RangerPHX
Have used for at least 10 years, 8+ PRO.The start-up and its Delay Tab are invaluable when it comes to boot speed they can shave whole seconds off your boot time.
If your not sure what something does, Plus Info (in the paid version) gives straight forward date w/ Users' ranking giving the facts needed to make your decision - saving a whole lot of time with Google, btw if they don't have data on line check back for an answer (con: They do NOT advise when they do, nor a "Flag". PRO: You can add your own note to this program's file.).

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