Windows XP software

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Soon to be renamed System Informer

Process Hacker logo

Software >

https://github.com/winsiderss/systeminformer
https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/

A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.



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startup > Software > Windows >

was mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

View/control startup applications.

Small, concise, full-featured and overall incredible. This is an essential part of my toolkit.

Services are not supported.

  • aka StartupCPL
  • Abandoned

    • Not mentioned in his list of programs (though linked-to in the Wayback Machine), and not hosted on the author's GitHub account.

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SUPERAntiSpyware header

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.superantispyware.com/

A malware scanner.

Mostly-meh.

  • Their portable scanner is still just an installer.
  • It found an Wajam plugin from Magic Camera, presumably installed for either Internet Explorer or Edge.

    • During scanning, it claims to have found infected files, but those files were neither reported at the end of its scan nor found in its quarantine. What gives?
WinContig logo

https://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/index.htm

A defragmentation tool for individual files.

Note that defragmentation is irrelevant with an SSD, and even with a HDD, Windows will auto-defragment if you leave it alone for a bit. For windows 8 and Windows 10, my administrative settings are so aggressive that when I'm inactive for five minutes it pokes around to see what it can defragment.

  • As of 2016-02-15 on Windows 10, 1.35.04 is in my toolkit.
  • I had tested v1.0.0rc1 on Windows 8.1 a while back, for Path of Exile - (2013 game).