Filed under: Security, Utilities, Windows, Commercial, Freeware, Windows x64
Winpatrol 2010 is out, and the little black scottie is leaner and meaner than ever
by Lee Mathews Oct 12th 2009
Just released, WinPatrol 2010 builds on the strengths of previous versions. It's now even lighter on memory use, weighing in at about 5Mb on my Windows 7 x64 system. Scotty's also learned to play nice by tweaking internal behaviors to reduce conflicts with antivirus applications.
The new version's cookies tab now handles Firefox and Google Chrome in addition to Internet Explorer. Users of the WinPatrol Pro will also enjoy improved realtime scanning speed - 30% quicker than the free version.
Winpatrol also scores serious points for its Pro licensing plan. Not only do you pay once for the software and receive a lifetime of upgrades, but developer Bill Pytlovany believes that your license should follow you - not your computer. That means you're free to enjoy your paid WinPatrol on any and all PCs that you personally own and use. Nice!
Both the free and pro versions of WinPatrol 2010 are available for download now, as is WinPatrol To Go -- the portable version, which is also free.
One of my biggest pet peeves is software that when installed, assumes that I want to let it launch at startup, rather than when I want it to launch. Adobe Acrobat installs a utility to speed up launching Acrobat, for example, but all that really does is to pre-load parts of Acrobat, even when it's not needed. So, you end up with a computer that boots more slowly, and resources that are wasted in case you want to read a PDF. 
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
