| singapore.exe
Adds a blue crescent to the taskbar and when double-clicked displays an adult-content web-site. Also known to drop your internet connection and dial an international telephone number. See here for more information. Must be disabled in MSCONFIG before un-installing or it re-instates itself
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| SiteAdv.exe
SiteAdvisor from McAfee warns you before you interact with a dangerous Web site
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| syp.exe
SysProtect is detected as a "potentially unwanted program". It purports to be an system repair/maintenance application, but requires paid registration before any issues found can be fixed. Many of the "invalid" items found appear suspect. This has been reported to be distributed in wild via trojan Vundo. Other incarnations of this software exist with the same model and similar web presences (for example WinFixer). For more information see here
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| Tablet.exe
Loads the tablet drivers for the Wacom Graphics Tablet. This can be unchecked in msconfig without problems if you don't need the tablet functional all the time. Create your own shortcut if you need to run it ad hoc. If you forget to run it before running Paint Shop Pro & Adobe Photo Shop) you may find the following: (1) Paint Shop Pro (version 7.04) - (a) Browse function will NOT work (program freezes) (b) On program exit, PSP does not terminate (you have to CTRL+ALT+DEL to close it) (2) Pho..
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| tabtip.exe
The Microsoft Tablet PC Input Panel converts handwriting to text dynamically, and you can make corrections quickly and easily before inserting text
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| tca.exe
Part of The Cleaner from MooSoft - stops virus trojans before they can do any damage
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| TNTCLK.exe
Overclocking program for TNT, TNT2, and other graphics cards. This program can overclock the graphics card manually after startup when needed, especially before starting a gaming session. However, for simplicity, it can be left checked to let it run once at startup to automatically overclock the graphics card. In this case, it doesn't even run in the background after doing its job
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| W3dbsmgr.exe
Database Service Manager for Pervasive SQL 2000 Workgroup edition. Required if you use Pervasive SQL but it's recommended you start it manually before using it as it has a tendancy to crash/freeze if loaded with other applications at startup
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| w98Eject.exe
Related to USB support for Sigmatel MP3 audio palyer (and others such as SanDisk). It's intent is to "put away" the "disk" before you unplug it from the USB port, ostensibly to avoid "losing" data
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| watch.exe
Associated with an Eicon Networks ISDN or ADSL modem. Watch protocols your connection with numbers and duration. You need callvu.exe (from Start Menu) to see your connection statistics. You can manually start watch.exe before you go online. Needs diinfo.exe (started by DiTask) to work correctly which can be started manually
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| watch.exe
Associated with an Eicon Networks ISDN or ADSL modem. Watch protocols your connection with numbers and duration. You need callvu.exe (from Start Menu) to see your connection statistics. You can manually start watch.exe before you go online. Needs diinfo.exe (started by DiTask) to work correctly which can be started manually
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| WGPRO32.EXE
Part of McAfee Nuts & Bolts. "WinGauge is a dynamic reporting tool that constantly monitors your use of Windows and your applications, to alert you to potential problems before they become serious". Resource hog. Available via Start -> Programs
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| wintasks.exe
WinTasks - "Efficient Resource and Task Management is absolutely critical if you want to achieve the highest system performance levels possible. WinTasks 4 will not only help you achieve this task, but will actually make your system run faster and more smoothly than ever before"
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| wstimeb.exe
Used with NEC printers. You can disable it before printing but it re-loads itself when printing so you may as well leave it
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| Xptryicn.exe
Mediafour Xplay - allows you to use an Apple iPod digital music player with a PC running Windows. If not used regularily start manually before connecting the iPod
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