Hardware sensors monitor utilizes sensor chips on smart motherboards to track system and CPU temperatures, voltages and cooling fans. By quickly catching an overheated computer, you can prevent disasters such as system instability or damage. The program is resource friendly, resides quietly in the system tray, and continually monitors the various parameters. By clicking its icon, you'll view real time values for each component.

Once it has detected an overheating state, Hmonitor can perform a number of tasks. First, it can sound an audio alarm, then shut down the system or optionally execute any selected application (i.e. sending E-mail alert messages to system administrator). It can also log information each minute to a file on your hard drive. From the settings dialog, Hmonitor enables you to set "yellow zone" and "red zone" temperatures for the motherboard and CPU. You can also set minimum fan RPM before a warning is issued. In addition, nominal values and thresholds can be adjusted for voltage parameters.

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System Explorer Portable is a special version of the excellent task manager System Explorer that you can carry around anywhere with you in your USB memory device, and run it right away on any computer.

Like its older cousin, System Explorer Portable is a much more complete, reliable and advance task management tool than the standard app that comes bundled with Windows. With this full-featured system analyzing tool you can take a sneak peek at everything that's going on in your system, from currently active processes to installed drivers, including also network collections, startup applications and Internet Explorer add-ons, if you have any.

But System Explorer still has an ace up its sleeve: not only does it let you see what's brewing in your system, but also take action. This means that you can end any active process or delete items from the startup menu, to name a couple of examples. Another feature I especially liked is the possibility to obtain more information about any given process from Google and ProcessLibrary.com, or check it for viruses with an online antivirus tool. The program includes loads of other interesting features, but unfortunately lacks documentation about them so you'll have to learn how to use them on the move.

System Explorer is a full-featured task and process manager that gives you an exhaustive view of all the activities currently going on in your system.

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Systemometer is a unique monitoring tool that shows system activity and resources as a screen saver or a thumbnail window. It allows you to create different monitoring profiles out of the Windows performance counters available on your system or remote hosts. The interface displays the values of monitored parameters connecting all measured points in one polygon - a snapshot view that helps to read the overall system status at a glance. This method is also suitable for understanding load balance of a specific parameter (e.g. CPU utilization) among several items like computers or applications.

Different shapes of monitoring polygons draw visual patterns associated with normal or critical system states. One look at the screen will tell you what is happening with the system. The history of counter values can be recorded to the log file in either HTML or CSV format. Systemometer is helpful for system administrators working in Windows environment with network, printers, databases, Web servers, etc. It is a nice toy for your home office.

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The apparent limitations in Windows standard Task Manager have encouraged many developers to create their own version of this tool, usually providing more information and more advanced tools.

This is the case of Security Process Explorer, a full featured task manager created by Glarysoft (who you may already know for their awesome Glary Utilities). This tool analyzes your system and creates a list with all the currently active applications and processes, each one of them complemented with extra data such as CPU and memory usage, threads, priority and also a rating according to the level of trust given by this program's users themselves. There's also a link to obtain more information about the selected process on the web, which takes you to a knowledge database created by Glarysoft (although the button clearly says "Google it!").

Security Process Explorer includes the usual set of features you find in this kind of apps: possibility to set priority, end any given process or see the associated files (DLL) linked to it. However, there are other Windows Task Manager replacements far more complete than Security Process Explorer.

Security Process Standard is a good alternative to the standard Windows Task Manager but it falls short of expectations when compared to other replacement tools.

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Motherboard Monitor (MBM) is a very detailed and powerful system monitoring utility that should enlighten the heart of any computer geek. It can monitor fan speeds, temperatures, voltages and more.

In addition, it provides detailed system information about your chip and memory. It also includes an alarm features that can send e-mail alerts, initiate an FTP transfer or even send a pager message if conditions exceed the user defined condition.

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For those who like minute control of their system, CPUCooL is a set of very tiny system utilities that you can use to tweak the settings of your CPU and motherboard.

CPUCooL monitors the temperature, fan speed and voltages for many motherboards (check supporting files for supported systems). It includes a utility for shutting down the PC with a single key combination, and a basic optimizer for Cyrix, AMD and Intel chipsets.

A newly included option allows for varying the CPU frequency via the SMBus. If any of this makes sense to you, you might want to check it out. If however, it does not, you will probably want to stay away.

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Not only will it show you your CPU-usage, memory-usage and pagefile-usage, it will also show you you're down- and upload speed, the space left on your hard drives and since version 2.3 you can also see the temperatures of your PC and the fanspeeds of the fans in your computer.

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Informer has no window. This is a text string dinamically showing you current system load. You can place it at the desired location on screen, change font and color. For more handy manipulation program places an icon to system tray. Unlike many others system monitors Informer takes a little of screen space.

Informer can display information about:

• Current system activity - CPU usage, number of running processes and threads, available memory, network connections.
• Full list of running processes with detailed information about each process.
• Fully qualified information about your computer system.
• Notification about system events.

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CoolMon is a program for monitoring vital system stats and almost anything else you wish to display on the desktop. It can also display stats from remote pc's and publish real-time stats on a webpage. The application can display CPU, RAM and page file usage, hard drive usage, MotherBoard Monitor temperatures and fan speeds, various network stats and much, much more. For a full list of CoolMons abilities, see the features page. To view some of the different ways you can make CoolMon display the data, please see the screenshots page.

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Serious Samurize is a handy tool to customize statistical information on your hardware and software. Highly configurable, you can add a background image, colors or shapes. Users will also appreciate the ability to see information such as CPU usage, memory available, hard drives or new email.

Serious Samurize attempts to woo overclockers, developers and computer aficionados with the number of statistics it can generate on your computer. For example, you can find out how much gigabytes of traffic your ADSL connection uses in a week. Serious Samurize also gives you the option to monitor others over a network, great when you are administrating multiple machines.

Serious Samurize’s strongest asset is also its weakness. While fervent computer users will quickly get to grips with the personalization, we think it might deter first time users, especially those who don’t know VBScript.

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Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you’ll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you’ll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

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Advanced visual process analysis tool which offers many more features than the built-in windows task manager.

It allows you to set the priority of each process permanently and blocks non-removable spy-ware, ad-ware or any other unpleasant processes from start-up.

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WinPatrol uses a heuristic approach to detecting attacks and violations of your computing environment. Traditional security programs scan your hard drive searching for previously identified threats. WinPatrol takes a snapshot of your critical system resources and alerts you to any changes that may occur without your knowledge. You'll be removing dangerous new programs while others download new reference files.

When you run WinPatrol, you should notice that Scotty the Windows Watch Dog is standing on your Windows System Tray/Taskbar in the right lower corner of your screen. Probably next to your clock or speaker icons. He loves music.

Just double click on Scotty to see the valuable information he has found out about your computer. If you hold down the right mouse button you'll see a menu pop up with additional features. Using this menu you can select to have Scotty installed so he's always watching out for you. You can always go back at any time and change your mind and uncheck the "Always Run WinPatrol" menu option. This menu also provides a way to Exit WinPatrol anytime you want.

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One of most common reasons for your PC slowing down is processes that are hogging your system and taking all your CPU.

Process Lasso aims to solve this problem by reducing the priority of those processes that are not important and returned to a responsive level. It also works with multiple processes that are causing a problem so it can deal with more than one program at once. If you think that the program is prioritising the wrong processes, then you can define default processes that you want to be controlled or kept an eye on. Process Lasso also displays graphs and other graphical represeantations to show you which processes are requiring the most CPU usage. You can blacklist those processes that are showing rather high graph readings or that are clearly taking up more CPU usage than they deserve. Although the program requires no experience, it does offer advanced settings and twesking options to make sure that it only blocks those processes that are specified or targeted by yourself. Fortunately, the program itself is very low on resources so it will not add to your CPU hogging problems.

A very useful process monitor than will ensure your CPU only dedicates itself to those programs that really need it.

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Usage Monitor lets you set watch limits on processes to know when your process is using too much. Watch limits can be placed on Memory Usage, GDI Objects, and USER Objects. This is a great tool for any developer.

Features:

• Monitor Memory Usage, GDI Objects, USER Objects
• Minimize to the system tray for uncluttered monitoring
• Audible and visual alarm is triggered when a limit has been surpassed
• Display all processes or only processes you are monitoring

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The Warecase eXtended Task Manager (XTM) is a powerful auxiliary tool designed for simplifying the environment of the software developer. XTM is an extended windows task manager and performance monitoring tool for Microsoft Windows 2000 OS and later versions of Windows. XTM can give fast solutions for sudden problems which may arise in a product's functioning without having to either reinstall it from the user workstation or even without needing to close the application.

Whatever your needs, XTM can provide significant added functionality to the development environment and facilitate both programming and testing. Our solution provides the developer with direct access to the flow of processes, allowing data collection and the ability to immediately act upon any problems that arise, in the quickest and most efficient way possible.

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The Statlook system's unique function is tracking the company's computer usage mode. A wide range of cross-sectional reports illustrates the users' activities in each period of time and in the context of used software. By means of the Statlook system you can practically control all employee activity, beginning from the registration of Internet site visits, through the usage of each application and documents opened statistics, control of software installed, as far as the ability to view the screenshot and counting the keystroke rate.

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ProcessInfo 2.6 gives you information about all processes currently running on your Windows® operating system. Its intuitive, easy-to-use user interface enables you to terminate one or more processes per drag-and-drop, create multiple-process reports, show module info of any process, and lets you connect arbitrary processes to a debugger.

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Would you like to know the present state of your system? And to improve its performance? WinTasks Professional can help you do just this.

This ultimate power utility software arms you with complete information and an arsenal of heavy duty tools, putting you in full control of your computer. It gives you access to the active tasks list, similiar to that obtained via "control+alt+supr" but in greater detail.

WinTasks allows you to:

Be fully in charge

WinTasks 5.0 Professional allows you to take charge of your PC by providing you with comprehensive and detailed information. You can easily take action to improve overall performance and boost security.

Protect your PC

Using WinTasks 5.0 Professional with your anti-virus, spyware and firewall software will completely defend your system against spyware, malware, viruses and any other types of threats.

Dramatically improve performance

WinTasks 5.0 Professional allows you to stop or block all unnecessary processes, clean your computer of unwanted residues from uninstalled programs, prevent annoying pop-ups and tweak your system to achieve the best performance levels.

Stay up to date

Featured in USA Today and the Washington Times, the regularly updated process library of WinTasks is critical to all PC users.

Take charge quickly and easily

Whether you are a computer expert or a novice, you will quickly learn how to use WinTasks 5.0 Professional and take charge completely. It is exceptionally simple to use so you do not have to be technical to make your computer faster and safer.

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Hoo WinTail is a real-time log monitor for Windows like the UNIX tail -f utility. It can be used to view the end of a growing file. It is ideal for viewing application traces or server log in real-time. You can view the last part of a large file quickly without the need to load the entire file. Hoo WinTail can capture and display OutputDebugString (Windows debugging API) output as well.

Hoo WinTail has many excellent features for debugging program and system administration: highlight filters, include/exclude filters, monitor multiple log files, bookmarks support, minimize to systray and flash systray icon to indicate new lines written and so on. Hoo WinTail is a file viewer only. It makes no changes to log files. It opens log files in read-only mode. As new lines are written to log file by other programs (e.g. your applications or web server), Hoo WinTail reads the new lines and displays them. Hoo WinTail has an attractive and intuitive MDI interface. You can monitor multiple log files and capture OutputDebugString output at the same time.

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