Working with services in Windows regularly can be quite the challenge. The official way to manage Windows services is to open Services manager. Once the Services manager has been opened it can be used to start and stop services or to change their startup type. The services manager is fine if the process is done [...]
How To Remove Third Party Services In Windows
Sometimes things go bad. You try to uninstall a software program that you do not longer need or recover a computer system after a hard drive crash only to find out that some traces of old programs are still in the system. One of these places is Services in the Windows operating system. What are [...]
Windows Process Blocker
The Windows application Process Blocker has been designed to provide system administrators and computer technicians with a security tool that can be easily distributed on a computer network to prevent unauthorized program starts. The program is currently in beta stage and has not completed the goal yet but it comes with a functional feature set [...]
Secure Windows Services Configuration
I just spend most of the morning installing Windows XP on a computer system. While the installation itself takes some time the configuration afterwards is surely the most time consuming part of the process. Windows XP comes with many services enabled that are usually not needed by most users and that can allow hackers to [...]
Scan And Remove Potentially Dangerous Software
FreeFixer is a free software program for Microsoft Windows that will scan the computer system for potentially dangerous software. The process has been streamlined to be as unobtrusive as possible. A click on Start Scan will initiate the system scan after starting the software program.
Several important locations will be scanned in the process including running [...]
Vista Services Optimizer
Vista Services Optimizer is a free Windows Vista software program for computers running the Microsoft operating system. It can be used to diagnose and tune the Services configuration of the system to eliminate problems and increase overall system performance. Services Diagnostics is probably the first option that should be run after installation and start of [...]
Manage Windows Services
Managing Windows services is a painless efforts because the Microsoft tool services.msc does a decent enough job. It provides an interface that is displaying all existing services, their status and enough options to change the status easily. But there is always room for improvement. System administrators for instance would love an option to save different [...]
