It has been awhile since I have blogged.... not because I haven't had the time or dont want to, but more like having something useful to say. I started thinking and since I'm a software professional, maybe I should share some of the more useful things I have learned / figured out over the years. As such, here is a cool one - Software Explorer in Vista.
What is great about this tool is the information it displays as an alternative to hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del and going to the task manager. (Great for trying to figure out why your computer / internet is running so slow)
Here are the things that are really useful:
- You can see and disable all startup programs that run when Vista starts. (great for killing malware apps)
- You can see more information about the running applications than Task manager displays. i.e. "Ships with Operating System", "File path"
- You can see which programs are access the internet and to which IP address.
- Open Start->Control Panel -> Windows Defender
- Select "Tools"
- Select "Software Explorer"
