WinPatrol

Have you ever dreamed of getting a watch dog to guard your computer from malwares. Well maybe all you need is Scotty the computer user's best friend and is packaged as WinPatrol.

WinPatrol is not an anti-virus software yet it does what anti-viruses can not do. It protects your computer from softwares that try to work at computer startup. Whenever Scotty senses something has changed, it instantly alerts you of that change and asks for your approval, whether its a new startup program or if its a service that wants to run it self, Scotty doesn't let anything through without your permission.





WinPatrol is a great software and an addition that everybody should have, it's main purpose is to filter startup programs yet it doesn't stop there, actually when working with WinPatrol you'll discover some new functions that you might never even considered it existed. For example you can disable any startup program that you don't want. Some of you will say yeah I can do that by typing "msconfig" in the run window and can disable 'em from there, well Scotty lets you even remove those threads permanently, how about that.

There is a bunch of useful tools that comes with WinPatrol as you can view all the services that are currently running and disable them if you want to, but I'll have to advise against that if you don't know what your doing or if you have some doubts. Thats because Scotty takes your actions seriously just like a good ol' watch dog always at your command.

Another feature of WinPatrol is Delayed Start, this lets you delay a startup object by an amount of time making it start after the system in the specified amount of time. Lets say you want Yahoo Messenger as a startup program yet you have many startup objects and as they start all together they use a whole bunch of memory. You can add Yahoo Messenger! in the delayed start list and specify an amount of time for it to start lets say 3 minutes, this will make Yahoo Messenger starts 3 minutes after the computer has started making things a little easier for other startup applications.

WinPatrol has another useful tool called IE helper, this makes you manage all IE add-ons, you can modify, disable and even remove any unwanted add-on.

There are other tools and features that WinPatrol provides and they are all easy to use if you know what you are doing because if you don't then you might delete a necessary component in Windows or maybe removing a system service or application.

WinPatrol comes in two versions, Basic and Plus. To tell you the truth I haven't tried the Plus version but I've heard that it only gives certain details about applications that the Basic version does not offer. Yet this is Warez for Free meaning we are only concerned about the free version which is Basic and it can be downloaded Here.