Hi folks,

You may have seen me singing the virtues of WinPatrol of late, I have mostly recommended it when people have been wanting to disable startup applications by using msconfig. With WinPatrol if you make a change to any startup item it doesnt prompt you to reboot, the change is instant and no confusing confirmation box pops up after you reboot the PC like what happens with the Configuration Utility.
It will also display hidden secret startup items too.
If there are any applications that are set to startup when windows does but you would like to delay their loading, there is even an option for Delayed Start.

You know what it's like you install a new application and the software writers have made it so the program is set to startup when windows does and there's nothing you can do about it at this stage, well with WinPatrol it alerts you if an application has made any such startup entry, you then have the choice to allow or deny it.
It monitors and notifies you of key system setting changes, like any ActiveX and Browser Helpers that are trying to install and more, this is a good line of defence for those nasty ones that are out there.

I'm smitten with this application, as you can probably tell, I highly recommend it to you all, it's free too, although you can pay a one of lifetime fee for the Pro version. Use this coupon code DIM2008 to get 30%ish knocked off, making it a shade under £12 for us Brits.
Anyway, enough of my rambling, go check it out for yourselves


http://www.winpatrol.com - WinPatrol Main Page
http://www.winpatrol.com/features.html - Features
http://www.winpatrol.com/whyplus.html - Compare versions


Regards
Simon