atw: Re: Cleanup utilities (was general question)

Christine Kent:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:05:22 +1000,  you wrote:

> The process was good though as I learned about legitimate programs that do 
> illegitimate
> things on your computer.  I discovered the crimes of programs like mim.exe and
> realplay.exe that run background processes without telling you.  When they 
> gobble up
> 98% of system resources without telling you what they are doing ? you are  
> going to
> have problems.  So now I want to know the best utility for spotting all these 
> programs
> and banishing them!  Anyone know?
>
>
> Also, what is the best utility for cleaning up registry?
>
>
> So what with virus checking, firewalls, spyware detectors, registry cleaners, 
> rogue
> program detectors et al ? there must be one thing that does the lot ? surely? 
>  And what
> have I missed?
>

Big range of choices. And your options vary according to what you want to
pay.     One favourite of mine is WinPatrol which can alert you to lots of 
potential annoyances and also gives access to process-indentification (and 
killing) facilities.  

See: http://www.winpatrol.com  

And for all kinds of things, don't go past  SIW to find out things about your
machine you never knew -- including all your processes, open ports, licence
numbers and even the passwords you've been using on 
all those strange places you've been visiting on the net   :-)    

Small, neat and self-contained.  Stick it in your desktop or someplace handy. 
You never know when you might need it. And it's an education in itself. 

See: http://www.gtopala.com/

I could go on... 

But first check Gizmo's list of free things ....  and even subscribe to his
extended list ... can save you heaps.      He gives reviews and comparisons
and does extend reviews to some tools you might be prepared to pay for.

See:
 http://www.techsupportalert.com/



 




-Peter M 
 
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