The Trouble-Free PC: Tune it up. Back it up. Ramp it up.
We test 16 utilities designed to keep your system running strong today and tomorrow.Lincoln Spector
Lincoln Spector and Scott Spanbauer are contributing editors for PC World. Testing was done by Senior Performance Analyst Elliott Kirschling and Development Analyst Thomas Luong of the PC World Test Center.
Illustration by James O'Brien
A good suite contains most of the utilities you need on a single CD, with one price tag and one user interface. We say "most of the utilities" because we found that no single suite had every tool we look for; most notably, you'll need to supplement a suite with a backup utility (see "Backing Up to Happiness") and possibly a partition management program (see "Wrangle Disks Like a Pro")--and we aren't satisfied with any of the emergency boot tools available. For this article we looked at four packages: Business Logic's $50 Ultra WinCleaner Utility Suite 8, Iolo's $70 System Mechanic 4 Professional, Symantec's $65 Norton SystemWorks 2004, and V Communications' $60 SystemSuite 5.
Each suite includes an antivirus program: SystemWorks comes with Norton AntiVirus 2003, System Mechanic offers Panda Antivirus Platinum, SystemSuite bundles VirusScanner Pro, and Ultra WinCleaner has QuickHeal. (Click here for a recent review of antivirus programs.) In this article, we concentrate on how the suites keep your Windows XP computer healthy, clean up an overcrowded hard drive, and get you back on your feet after a disaster.
Since Windows XP carries its own collection of utilities, we set a high bar for stand-alone utility suites: We think a worthwhile suite should provide more tools than Windows itself does; it should secure your system, test your hardware to warn you of impending trouble, fix havoc-causing flaws in Windows' Registry, and simplify basic maintenance. Because hard drives collect garbage faster than the floor of your car, a good utility suite should help you remove programs and files you no longer want. If you wish to retrieve an accidentally deleted file, your suite should come to the rescue; but when you'd like a file to stay deleted, your suite should make it unrecoverable. Finally, if an accident renders Windows unusable, your suite should save the day.
We chose V Communications' SystemSuite 5 as the Best Buy because it has the most extensive and usable set of tools. The big disappointment was Symantec's Norton SystemWorks 2004, which is in severe need of a major overhaul. We did like its one-pass checkup and its Registry cleanup, but many of its most important tools--such as the emergency boot--don't support the NTFS file system used in Windows XP. Aside from the excellent Norton AntiVirus component, there's little reason to purchase SystemWorks--and you can buy Norton AntiVirus on its own for $50, or as part of the more useful Norton Internet Security suite for $70.
Though both System Mechanic and Ultra WinCleaner are useful collections, they lack the scope of SystemSuite's tools. Still, System Mechanic has the best undelete tool of the bunch, and Ultra WinCleaner--true to its name--was the only program to remove more hard-drive garbage than Windows' own Disk Cleanup. But neither of these packages offers the full set of tools that you'll find in SystemSuite. To be fair, Ultra WinCleaner is designed to clean up a system, not to do all the diagnostic and maintenance tasks that the other suites claim to handle.
In past years, both Norton SystemWorks and SystemSuite had a reputation for slowing down Windows. New tests by the PC World Test Center reveal that the current editions (in their default configuration, but without their antivirus components loaded) have no measurable effect on performance. Previous versions of these two suites loaded background system monitoring automatically, which could cause noticeable slowdowns. The current versions do not load these monitors at start-up by default.
Our Pick: SystemSuite 5
The Best Buy award goes to SystemSuite 5, which V Communications acquired from Ontrack last year. SystemSuite offers a broad range of practical tools, including extensive hardware diagnostics and a workable uninstaller, all in a very easy-to-use package. And we found this suite to be the most helpful in the case of an XP-based system suddenly refusing to boot.Secure Your System
Besides their disk- and system-related utilities, all four suites offer at least some of the weapons you need to protect your computer from bad guys on the Internet. In addition to stopping viruses, all of the packages can wipe away the histories of your browsing habits and other personal data.
System Mechanic has the best selection of security tools. It comes with Panda Antivirus Platinum, which also works as a firewall and as a spyware finder and remover; in our recent antivirus tests, however, Panda was the least effective at capture and removal of viruses. Meanwhile, SystemSuite offers a firewall as well, and SystemWorks can handle spyware (through the included Norton AntiVirus 2004), but only System Mechanic blocks pop-up ads.
Norton SystemWorks offers a password manager--the only significant addition to last year's model--that encrypts passwords and other data to keep it all safe from prying eyes. SystemSuite comes bundled with the MailWasher spam filter and the GhostSurf anonymous-browsing tool, but these are limited in functionality, and MailWasher has a truly irritating nag screen. You have to pay $20 more for the full, nonannoying version.
A Scan A Day Keeps Misery Away
Periodic medical checkups can help keep you healthy, and the same goes for your computer. You should regularly scan Windows and your hard drive for errors or problems that could get worse over time and could possibly lead to system failure. And when Windows isn't working well, you need an easy way to pin down the problem and fix it.
All of the programs here include an all-in-one checkup that will scan your system, warn you of problematic items, and try to fix them. These checkups provide a simple way to regularly review your PC's health.
All four suites simplify the most basic maintenance tasks with an all-in-one checkup. Typically, this scans and defragments your drive, runs some diagnostics, deletes garbage files, scans for viruses, and erases your Internet tracks. It's a good idea to run this checkup weekly. All the suites also let you launch individual modules, and both SystemWorks' and System Mechanic's are easy to schedule for automatic launch. SystemSuite's scheduler supports the individual tasks but not the all-in-one checkup.
All of the programs here include an all-in-one checkup that will scan your system, warn you of problematic items, and try to fix them. These checkups provide a simple way to regularly review your PC's health.
Every suite except Ultra WinCleaner has a defragger (see "Defraggers: No Longer Needed?"). SystemWorks and SystemSuite both have disk scanners that check for errors, and SystemSuite's offers something significant that Windows lacks: a removable-media scanner that can identify errors on your CDs and DVDs. It successfully spots problems but offers no solutions; Mitja Perko's free CDCheck, by comparison, will try to recover the damaged files.
SystemSuite's Fix-It component provides an extensive set of hardware diagnostics, more than any of the other suites here. It tests your PC's memory, motherboard, drives, and (with a set of loopback plugs that that you can buy for about $20) ports. The graphics and multimedia tests can, if you're in the mood, even do double duty as a psychedelic light show.
SystemSuite also has one cool tool for determining where all the free space on your hard drive has gone: a graphic view of all of your folders that shows you how much space they (and any subfolders) actually take. SystemWorks does something similar, but it shows you only the size of one folder at a time.
Windows diagnostics: You're more likely to suffer from a lack of system resources or an overloaded hard drive than from failing hardware components. To protect you from such everyday problems, both SystemWorks and SystemSuite include background Windows diagnostics programs that monitor your computer as you work, giving you much more information and warning than does Windows' own Task Manager. But a program running in the background, monitoring everything, is almost certain to have a bad effect on your system's performance. Indeed, with past versions of both suites users often complained that these programs slowed down systems and caused them to crash.
Start-up program controllers: Lots of applications invite themselves to load at start-up, and uninviting them can be tricky. Both Ultra WinCleaner and System Mechanic can help you choose which apps automatically run when Windows boots. Though Windows' own Msconfig does the same, the suites offer a significant improvement: profiles. You can save different sets of programs for different uses; for example, you could have one profile that loads several applications for general use and one that loads nothing for diagnostic purposes. System Mechanic's Startup Manager is by far the easier to use, while Ultra WinCleaner's WinStart Commander tends to make simple chores needlessly complicated.
Take Out The Garbage
Your hard drive is full of junk. Some of it is just wasting space, slowing down backups and other maintenance chores, but other pieces could threaten to destabilize your system. Fortunately, all of the suites we reviewed offer cleanup tools that will help sweep out the trash.
Registry cleaners: Garbage lurking in the Windows Registry is the worst kind of junk on your hard drive. A program that you've uninstalled may leave behind an unnecessary Registry key that can end up causing havoc. If your computer isn't behaving the way it's supposed to--for example, a program keeps crashing or the CD-R drive suddenly doesn't write--there's a good chance the problem is in the Registry.
All four suites provide Registry scanners that find, report, and fix potential problems. Just as important, all four of them are able to undo their work, since you can't be absolutely sure that a Registry change is for the better until you have tried it.
The Registry Fixer component of SystemSuite 5 scans the Windows Registry for problems and tries to correct them.
SystemSuite does the best job of guiding you through the cleaning process, color-coding the problems it finds. You're not likely to have difficulty instructing the program to correct the green problems, while the yellow ones may require some thought. However, you will have to consider each red problem carefully before acting on it. SystemSuite explains why each item is on the list. Norton SystemWorks offers even better explanations, including the potential consequences of leaving the keys alone. Neither program, though, explains what might happen if you remove them. The WinDoctor component of SystemWorks adds a nice touch: When you decide to restore a Registry key, WinDoctor tells you why it was deleted in the first place.
Uninstallers: When you install a program, you leave your hard drive at the mercy of software developers. The program's files could be scattered all over your drive, and much worse, Windows could get reconfigured to match someone else's idea of your needs. Three of the four utility suites come with universal uninstallers that can, theoretically, remove any program. Unfortunately, none did a particularly good job.
Ostensibly, program-specific uninstallers should be all you need for the task. What, after all, could be better at removing DigTalonsIntoWindows than the uninstaller that came on the same CD-ROM? The sad reality is that many program-specific uninstallers remove the application's functionality, but not all of its scattered files, and they rarely remedy the alterations it made to Windows. Even sadder, however: The universal uninstallers that come with suites are usually worse, since they lack the inherent advantages of the built-in ones.
Both SystemSuite and Ultra WinCleaner have universal uninstallers that, where possible, use the unwanted program's own removal tool (since that generally does the better job). In our informal tests where the universal uninstallers had to use their own intelligence to remove a program, SystemSuite's EasyUninstall produced better results on our systems, removing more bits and pieces of the programs than did Ultra WinCleaner's WinUninstall Wizard. But, like all other uninstallers, it didn't get everything.
Norton SystemWorks' CleanSweep does not use an app's own uninstaller, but it can monitor installations in the background, recording what changes the installation makes to your system. It can then, in theory, undo these changes at a later date. But we found this monitor extremely fussy. It refused to operate on a PC running an Intel processor with hyperthreading, and on another system it failed to notice when we installed QuickBooks. When it did catch an installation, it didn't do as thorough an uninstall as the application's built-in uninstaller. CleanSweep can also remove unmonitored programs, but here it did a worse job than SystemSuite's or Ultra WinCleaner's tools. As near as we can tell, it didn't change anything in the Registry.
System Mechanic has no uninstaller, but it does, in a way, have a monitor. You can take "snapshots" of your system before and after an install, and then save a report on the differences. You can then use the report to find the stuff that was installed and remove it manually.
Junk file removal: All four suites have basic cleanup tools for deleting the junk files that clog up your disks, such as old temp files, Web caches, and the like. But then again, so does Windows XP, and only Ultra WinCleaner did significantly better here than XP's own Disk Cleanup. On our test system, WinCleaner removed 44MB, whereas XP got only 35MB. SystemWorks' 36MB was a near photo finish with Windows, but System Mechanic managed only a paltry 1.4MB.
SystemSuite once again outdid the other packages, but in this case it wasn't an advantage: The utility deleted several gigabytes of data in a folder named 'temp' on a second hard drive that we didn't want it to check.
File shredders: Being able to restore deleted files is a good thing, but some files you don't want anyone to see ever again. All four of these suites include a secure file-deletion tool, and all except SystemWorks can wipe your entire hard drive--a wise precaution before selling or donating an old computer.
SystemSuite deals with file shredding through PowerDesk, a file manager that's an extra on the SystemSuite CD. The previous versions of the suite had the much stronger PowerDesk Pro, but SystemSuite 5 offers only the stripped-down version you can download for free. The no-cost PowerDesk is a nice tool, superior to Windows' own Explorer file manager, but it lacks the versatile file viewers and customization abilities of the $40 Pro.
Disaster Insurance
What do you do if you empty the Recycle Bin and then discover you accidentally deleted the wrong file? Or what if Windows doesn't boot? Though most of the suites can help you a bit in the former situation, in the latter, worst-case scenario, all of them disappoint--at least for users who are running Windows 2000 or XP with NTFS-formatted drives.
File undeleters: If you've inadvertently deleted a file, Windows' Recycle Bin is a good safety net, holding files until you choose to empty it. However, it's not a perfect solution. If the file was too big for the Bin, if you deleted the file in a way that bypassed the Bin, or if you just emptied the Bin, then you'll need another way to restore the file.
Systemsuite 5 provides a good overview of which folders are taking up all of your disk space through the SizeManager tool.
Norton SystemWorks offers a slightly improved Recycle Bin that catches files Windows misses, but it can't do much else on NTFS drives. Both SystemSuite and System Mechanic can often restore files that are not in the Recycle Bin, even under NTFS, though there's no guarantee. (Sometimes a deleted file is beyond rescue--if the space it was on has been written over, the programs can't do anything.) SystemSuite offers an extra layer of protection in the form of the Deleted Files Bin, where files go when you empty the Recycle Bin, or when you delete them in a way that the Recycle Bin can't catch. And System Mechanic can restore the file to a different drive--a useful precaution against further accidents. System Mechanic also provides another nice touch: It can restore deleted e-mail messages from four programs: Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, and Eudora.
Emergency boot: Few things are worse than having a PC that won't boot when you need it. And the situation is pretty tough to fix with Windows XP. Though a genuine Microsoft Windows XP CD-ROM contains a useful but difficult repair tool you can boot to, most systems today don't come with this CD, and some offer no option in times of disaster other than restoring your hard drive to its original condition--wiping out all of your data.
Windows XP has one recovery tool that doesn't require a Microsoft CD-ROM: System Restore, which backs up and restores your principal system files. Norton SystemWorks and SystemSuite provide similar backup tools that offer better disaster protection than System Restore. SystemWorks' GoBack Personal installs itself into the drive's master boot record, loading before Windows and giving you the option to restore the operating system to an earlier condition before Windows-based problems stop the boot. Of course, if the problem is in the master boot record itself, you're out of luck.
SystemSuite's Recovery Commander has a better solution. It gives you an option to create a bootable CD that will let you restore from any Recovery Commander backups on the hard drive (including NTFS drives). What's more, you can copy files from the hard drive to a CD-R or to a USB drive--very useful if you need to move your data to someplace safer.
However, none of the suites has the tool that all Windows 2000 and XP users need--a bootable, easy-to-use CD loaded with NTFS-aware repair tools. Such a tool exists in Winternals' ERD Commander 2003, which creates a bootable CD with a special version of Windows XP (licensed from Microsoft). Once you boot your PC with that CD, you can run System Restore, scan your drive for errors, and copy files onto another computer on the same network.
If you have a very big network, ERD Commander is reasonably priced: $600 for 100 computers. For one computer, however, the emergency download price is $200. If you find yourself with a downed mission-critical computer, the tool might be worth it. But your bank account will hate you in the morning.
We think Windows should have these recovery tools itself, especially since ERD Commander uses a good deal of technology that is already built into Windows XP; and barring that, all of the suites we reviewed should have them. Until that happens, your best bet is to buy and use SystemSuite 5, back up regularly, and keep your fingers crossed.
Features Comparison: Utility Suites Scorecard (chart)
| All suites have antivirus tools, but beyond that they tend to specialize. V Communications' SystemSuite 5 covers the most bases. | ||||||||||
| All-in-one checkup | Start-up program control | Registry cleanup | Program uninstall | Junk file removal | File shredding | Undelete | Non-booting-system recovery | |||
| Business Logic Ultra WinCleaner Utility Suite 8 |
$50 | Good | Good | Good | Average | Very good | Good | None | None | Has the best tools for system cleanup, and a zip utility. However, it omits defragging, undeleting, and disaster-recovery tools. |
| Iolo System Mechanic 4 Professional |
$70 | Good | Good | Good | None | Average | Good | Very good | None | Good array of tools to secure your PC; best undelete, but other components are harder to use. No recovery tool. |
| Symantec Norton System-Works 2004 |
$65 | Very good | Very good | Very good | Poor | Good | None | Poor | Average | Excellent antivirus program, but other components are showing their age. Its encrypting password manager is unique. |
| V Communi- cations System-Suite 5 |
$60 | Very good | Very good | Very good | Average | Good | Very good | Good | Good | By far the most diverse and well-designed collection of maitenance utilities. Some of the tools are crippled versions, though. |
Backing Up To Happiness
Illustration by James O'Brien
However, backing up is no longer hard to do, thanks to the rewritable DVD drives that ship with the majority of new systems, as well as to the latest backup programs that work with them. For this article, we evaluated four such utilities: Dantz Retrospect Professional ($90), Iomega Automatic Backup ($40), NTI Backup Now Deluxe ($65), and Stomp BackUp MyPC 5 ($70).
All of them let you recover from the unthinkable when it becomes the inevitable, but Dantz Retrospect--although it's the priciest--earns our Best Buy award because it will back up every system on your network, while you sleep, faster than its competitors.
But wait, you say, doesn't Windows have a backup program already? Windows XP Professional's Backup program has many good features, including full, incremental (only files that have changed), and scheduled backups. Unfortunately, it lacks space-saving file compression and can't back up to rewritable DVDs. Windows XP Home Edition users get a limited version of XP Professional's backup; it's located on your Home Edition installation CD in the \valueadd\msft\ntbackup folder.
Backed Up In Full
The most common backup technique is to make a full backup of all drives and partitions on your computer at regular intervals--weekly, for example--and incremental backups of just the files that have changed at shorter intervals (even daily isn't too often). All of the programs we reviewed except Iomega Automatic Backup allow you to perform both kinds of backups, and can schedule them to occur while you're snoozing. If you have a rewritable DVD drive or a second hard disk, this means you can create a full backup at regular intervals, leave a rewritable CD or DVD in the drive each night, and be sure (target drive or disc capacity permitting) that you have a current backup every day.
Iomega Automatic Backup takes a different approach: It creates backup copies of your choice of key data files on your system, as you modify them. The program can also store multiple copies of your files created over time, allowing you to revert to an earlier version. Rather than a full-strength backup tool, Iomega Automatic Backup is more of a digital safety net.
The PC World Test Center tested the backup speed of the programs and found that Dantz Retrospect Professional was noticeably faster than the others: It took just under 25 minutes to back up about 9GB of data to the Maxtor OneTouch USB 2.0 hard drive we used in our tests. A version of the Dantz program is bundled with the Maxtor OneTouch external hard drive, and it was nearly as fast as the retail version. The slowest program was Stomp BackUp MyPC, which took 42 minutes to back up the same amount of data. If you plan to schedule your backups to happen during the wee hours, this might not matter much; but if you schedule backups during your workday, speed becomes more important.
When backing up to a hard drive using the FAT32 file system, all of the programs we looked at had to break the data into multiple files to avoid the 4GB file size limit. All of the programs took care of the details automatically, except for Stomp BackUp MyPC, which asks you to confirm the name for each new file. Unfortunately, this approach makes unattended large backups impossible. So if you plan to do such backups, you should select one of the other backup programs or choose the NTFS or CDFS file system.
Dantz Retrospect also includes client software for remote computers that gives the clients some control over when backups occur. And if you have several different copies of the same file on your PC, Retrospect saves only one copy, speeding up incremental backups.
Recover From Disasters
All of the programs let you restore either the entire backup or individual files. However, disaster recovery is where a backup program shows its true value. If your hard disk should fail catastrophically, you can always buy a new disk, reinstall Windows and the backup program, and then reinstall your full backup to re-create your system. Dantz Retrospect, NTI Backup Now, and Stomp BackUp MyPC simplify this by creating bootable disaster-recovery discs that restore your full backup directly to an empty drive.
There are some caveats. To create a set of disaster-recovery discs for Windows, you need a full Windows XP install CD--the disk-image restore CDs that accompany many computers won't work. NTI Backup Now's disaster-recovery feature is a little different: To use it, you must create a separate copy of your entire drive using the included DriveBackup disk-imaging program; you can't use the backup created by Backup Now itself. However, you can create and restore your DriveBackup image whether you have a Windows XP installation disc or not.
Scott SpanbauerWrangle Disks Like A Pro
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If you want to delete, move, or resize partitions, or convert from one file system to another without the backup-and-reinstall hassle, you want a drive-partitioning utility. Using such a tool, you can manipulate partitions without destroying their contents, although backing up your data beforehand is always a wise precaution. PowerQuest's PartitionMagic 8 is the tool to beat. It permits you to explore your existing partitions and make multiple changes, all from within Windows. When you're done with your modifications, PartitionMagic automatically restarts the system, makes the changes you want without further assistance from you, and then boots the computer back into Windows. Handy special-purpose wizards split, merge, and redistribute free space among your partitions. The program can create, move, and resize partitions formatted with common PC file systems, including Windows' FAT32 and NTFS, as well as Linux's EXT2, EXT3, and Swap types (but not the newer ReiserFS). It also includes PowerQuest's BootMagic multi-OS boot manager, which lets you install several OSs onto one machine and choose which to run.
The Alternative
The problem with PartitionMagic is that $60 is lot to pay for a tool you may use only once or twice a year, no matter how good the program is. If the price galls you, V Communications' Partition Commander Version 8 costs only $45, but it lacks some of PartitionMagic's automation and polish. Like PartitionMagic, Partition Commander allows you to create, delete, and resize partitions; however, it doesn't run within Windows, and it requires you to boot with the install CD in order to launch its Partition Wizard interface. Partition Commander defaults to creating FAT or FAT32 partitions, depending on the partition size. You can opt to create one of the other supported types, but the interface doesn't make figuring out how to do this easy: We had to resort to the online help. And regardless of the task you undertake in Partition Commander, you must wait until it's complete before attempting another one. If you expect to do a lot of partition wrangling, PartitionMagic's slightly slicker interface may be worth the extra $15.
Scott SpanbauerDefraggers: No Longer Needed?
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Then again, it might not. When the PC World Test Center set out to determine the effectiveness of the defrag utilities in our set of suites, plus that of Diskeeper 8 from Executive Software, our analysts found no evidence that defragmentation enhanced performance. On a desktop system from the PC World office with a heavily used, never-defragmented hard drive, the lab conducted speed tests using a range of applications before and after defragmenting the drive with each utility. In the end, the Test Center saw no significant performance improvement after defragmenting with any program. This result flies in the face of the received wisdom that fragmentation hinders performance, though much older PCs (with slower and smaller hard drives) and heavily used servers may benefit more from defragging.
Fortunately, you don't have to buy a defragger to see if it will boost performance on your system: Every copy of Windows comes with a defragmentation tool. However, it is not particularly easy to use. Diskeeper 8 Professional Edition offers set-it-and-forget-it scheduling options, the ability to prioritize or skip defragmentation of specific files, and a display that predicts how much faster your system will be after defragmentation. Our tests didn't validate those predictions, though; again, we saw no performance gains after defragmenting.
The Disk Defragmentation module in Iolo's System Mechanic 4 Professional, SpeedDisk in Symantec's Norton SystemWorks 2004, and JET Defrag in V Communications' SystemSuite 5 not only defrag files but claim to cluster frequently used files together for faster access. A tool in SystemSuite 5, called IntelliCluster, watches how files are accessed as you use your PC, and then arranges files on the disk for optimal load speed. Only SpeedDisk lets you schedule defragmentation (say, for the middle of the night).
Scott SpanbauerFree Tools: Something for Nothing
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Capture: Sometimes, nothing tells a story like a picture--be it of a crashed application, an error dialog box, or evidence of a missing feature. The next time a support technician wants you to click a button that you can't see, use Capture to send them a shot of your screen.
FileMon: Just as the three bears wondered who had been sleeping in their beds, you may often wonder, "Who's been editing my files?" Sysinternals' FileMon tells you just that, along with a record of every other file that gets opened, closed, or otherwise accessed. Filemon generates a forest of data, but it also provides filters that allow you to focus on what you need, so you can check the history of a particular document or file.
SuperShredder: Hard disks are tricky. When you empty the Recycle Bin, it looks like your sensitive files are gone, but bosses, probation officers, and the Department of Homeland Security all know how to get them back. With SuperShredder, you can completely erase any files by using drag-and-drop or the 'Send to' menu.
WinKey: Few folks remember to use the Windows key, probably because it can perform only a limited number of tricks: Windows-E for opening Explorer, Windows-D for showing or hiding the desktop, and--yawn--a few others. WinKey lets you program the key to do the stuff you actually do every day--why not program Windows-P to launch PCWorld.com? The sky's the limit.
WinPatrol: Unless you know where to look, it's hard to keep tabs on the many programs, plug-ins, services, and scheduled tasks set to load and run automatically when you launch Windows. WinPatrol does the job, letting you view all of these items in a tabbed interface, disable unwanted activity, and manage cookies, too.
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