Info Apps

Hello All!

Just looking around and evaluating some apps. The ones that I've been playing with tonight are.

Process Explorer by Sysinternals. http://www.sysinternals.com

Task Info by Iarsn http://www.iarsn.com/taskinfo.html

I've used these programs in the past but not lately. It was time to check in on them and see what improvements they've made. The above 2 programs show you the same info but in different ways.

Another one that I use often is siw.exe http://www.gtopala.com/

There was another processor monitor that has a security module attached to it. It would tell you if it was spyware and have a color associated with the app. I just can't remember the name of it.

What other info programs do you use?

Depends on what kind of info your looking for. :P

Process explorer is great. I use it all the time. :)

Here is a list of "system information" programs.(freeware)

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwsysteminfo.html

Just depends on what I'm doing really. Mainly I use belarc advisor, hijackthis(I guess it counts. It helps to know whats running on a pc that your not sitting at. :D), process explorer.

Yeah Process Explorer is awesome! It can even be set to replace the standard windows Task Manager. B)

There was another processor monitor that has a security module attached to it. It would tell you if it was spyware and have a color associated with the app. I just can't remember the name of it.

What other info programs do you use?

Was that SecurityTask Mananager?

STM link

I use Winpatrol to check startups and other things and also an older free version of Everest for system info.

Was that SecurityTask Mananager?

STM link

Yep, that's the one.

It helps to know whats running on a pc that your not sitting at. :D ), process explorer.
I know I do it the hard way...:( I use RDP.

It's a pity Microsoft have bought out Sysinternals ... such a great company - now gonna go downhill. (sigh)

there's also Wininternals(owned by the same people). as for Sysinternals going down, i doubt it. i'm willing to bet that Process Explorer and maybe a few other tools will become part of Vista. the time is now to replace Task Manager with Process Explorer B)

there's also Wininternals(owned by the same people). as for Sysinternals going down, i doubt it. i'm willing to bet that Process Explorer and maybe a few other tools will become part of Vista. the time is now to replace Task Manager with Process Explorer B)

I hope you are correct and that Microsoft integrates several of Sysinternals' excellent utilities into Vista. However, considering Microsoft's reputation on these kinds of issues, I doubt that will happen. :(

I hope you are correct and that Microsoft integrates several of Sysinternals' excellent utilities into Vista.

Contig would be a nice quick defragger to add-on for quick defragmentation of individual files and folders without having to defrag a whole partition. But then again I don't care what they put into Vista because I'll never buy it.