WinTasks 5 Pro Review

	WinTasks 5.0 Professional Uniblue $49.95 (~£27 / €41) More Info Buy Now!
Based on years of research, the award-winning WinTasks is now one of the most popular tools in the war against malicious software, and the perfect complement to your firewall and anti-virus software.

Manufacturer's Description:

In the recesses of your computer, 20-30 invisible processes run silently in the background. Some hog system resources, turning your PC into a sluggish computer. Worse yet, other useless processes harbour spyware and Trojans - violating your privacy and giving hackers free reign on your computer. WinTasks 5 Professional can stop all of this now - you can ferret out these useless processes and make your computer run safer and faster.

The perfect complement to firewalls and anti-virus software, WinTasks gives you complete control over all processes running on your personal computer. Based on years of research, this award-winning product gathers detailed information on all running processes. WinTasks then gives you simple explanations for thousands of programs - allowing you to remove useless resource hogs and security threats - in just a few clicks.

Tsunami Win Tasks 5 Pro Review

Spyware, viruses, and worms - the scourge of anyone that uses the Internet in recent years. Anyone that runs a PC connected to the Internet is at risk from this trio of undesirables - and their consequences range from minor irritation to catastrophe. Usually they are installed over security gaps in the system and do their dirty work secretly - without being noticed at all, since the software process runs along simply in the background.

Those of tech savvy can hunt them down and terminate them using the Windows Task Manager and RegEdit on a short or long-term basis - but most of us cannot be sure of the names of the different Windows processes, let alone which are safe to remove. Telling the difference between a malicious and completely harmless process can be very difficult without doing lengthy and tedious research - especially when processes can be very unhelpfully-named...

The bog-standard Windows Task Manager

Hands up who knows what processes SMSS.EXE or CSRSS.EXE are, and what they do? Well the terminally techie amongst you might have told me that they are the Session Manager Subsystem and Microsoft Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem, but as for me - I had to refer to the piece of software I`m about to review!

Now in its fifth version - WinTasks Professional dedicates itself to exactly this problem and provides the user with complete control and security over their system. All processes normally indicated in the Windows Task Manager are able to be listed and explained in good detail - and if necessary be stopped and/or also blocked. With WinTasks 5 Professional the user no longer gropes in the dark when maintaining their computer and thwarting spyware and other unpleasant software. On the next few pages I will go over the various functions and screens contained in the WinTasks 5 program. I hope you find it useful!