The 57th most popular anti-virus tool on Windows
… More EditMost Windows users discover it with time: right after Windows is installed, or when one gets a new PC, the machine is "clean". Startup and shutdown are fast, the system directories are not crowded with files that contain God knows what, no useless program is wasting your CPU 24/24, etc. Then, things start deteriorating... Windows does not provide an easy way to keep its system clean. For example, there are many different ways for a program to install itself so that it is run automatically, so it is not easy for you to track down which application decided "by itself" to use your system's resources in the way it wants. Slowly, your machine becomes a mess. Your CPU is wasted by running processes that you don't need. Applications create files in your system directories and leave them behind. You sometimes refrain to install and evaluate a new program because you are afraid that it will not uninstall everything afterward. Anyway, the time it takes you to start and stop Windows become longer and longer. You start thinking about reinstalling "just to get things clean again"...
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Did you create this app?| Website: | donationcoders.com/kub... |
| Developer: | minuscule |
| License: | Free |
| Rating: | Features: Interface: Performance: Price/value: Overall: |
| Usage: | 14 hours, 20 minutes and 54 seconds |
| Usage since: | 07 July 2007 |
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Read the documentation and practice and you will like this program. Don't quite understand something? Fine - click a link and it will do a Google search for you. It is best to run this all the time and at start-up. It can also be ran manually. Its footprint is miniscule. With a bit of practice you can tell when bad guys have been installed. If nothing else, you can use it to assist in posting to help groups. Note that unlike the other post here, this and HiJack This are in different leagues. The latter is a much more powerful app and ususally used on a post-mortem basis. Tiny can and should be used on an on-going basis.
I use this every time the computer is turned on. But I never know quite what to do when it finds files that are new. It looks for new files in 'bad' places. I usually do a search, but the probability is high that it will be a Windows update.
Watches the startup and registry changes during startup. I think HijackThis works better when setup for same purpose.