Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Svchost Process Analyzer tells you what the heck svchost.exe is doing
by Brad Linder May 22nd 2009
First, it's probably not safe to kill it from the Task Manager. But you can figure out what these processes are doing by using a free and portable (no installation required) tool called Svchost Process Analyzer. Basically, each instance of svchost.exe masks a series of Windows system services. Svchost Process Analyzer lets you figure out exactly what those processes are. If you find some running processes that you don't think you need, you can disable those services using the Windows Control Panel to free up some system resources.
You can also use the program to detect whether a worm or trojan is masking itself as a Windows service.
[via gHacks]
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, ...
