Delete stubborn files with Unlocker Assistant

Unlocker Assistant is one of those tools that once you start using it you wonder how you ever got by without it. Everyone has run into a file that they want to delete, move, or rename only to be denied because the file is in use. Windows however, in it’s current middle-aged version, still […]

Easily examine suspicious files with a tool from the past: Peek 1.1

This review is of a tool that is now 12 years old. Originally written for Windows 95/NT, and last updated in 1996, Peek is a tool that has withstood the test of time. To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing quite like it.
Peek is an Explorer shell extension. It comes with no formal […]

Keep applications under control with Process Lasso

You know the story, you’re sitting there, knocking out some work and all of a sudden everything freezes while some unknown happenings are going on. Maybe Outlook decided to exercise god-like powers and take over 99% of your CPU cycles, maybe a poorly written application is bogging everything down, Windows Updates, slow network […]