More tools, More Joy

Check these tools out,

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/PL2006SYSTEMUTILITIES.php

if you ever have to recover a Window$ XP machine after spyware or virus activity these tools are great. Also the startup monitors are cool for trimming down the 300 icons in the windows system tray.

The tools from sysinternals are absolute tiny and full of great features, Filemon, Regmon, Process Explorer and Autoruns are recommended above, copy on to your usb / stick memory. Regmon is ideal for spotting hijacks as it displays registry activity in real time.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities.html

Ideal for friends and family support

great tool

Just a quck blog entry, check out this great tool for XP from sysinternals, AUTORUNS, download and evaluate it for yourself, i only started using this a couple of days ago after a contact of mine put its url my way. The tool provides information and methods of altering the behaviour of startup programs in XP.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/autoruns.html

Autostart locations displayed by Autoruns include logon entries, Explorer add-ons, Internet Explorer add-ons including Browser Helper Objects (BHOs), Appinit DLLs, image hijacks, boot execute images, Winlogon notification DLLs, Windows Services and Winsock Layered Service Providers. The interface is structured so you can switch tabs to view autostarts from different categories. Very nice utility for friends and family support after xmas :-)