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12srvc.exe
12Ghosts TrayProtect - "Hide tray icons, restore after a crash"
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BOMB32.EXE
Part of McAfee Nuts & Bolts. Protects your Windows system from application failure and crashes - similar to Norton Crashguard. Your choice - may cause problems
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bugwatcher.exe
Bugtoaster is a service that sends reports on system/program crashes (certain types) back to Bugtoaster. They relay information to program authors and provide, if available, any known solutions to the crashes. It doesn't take up any room in memory, just activates in the event of certain program failures
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CMAGENT.EXE
Part of CyberMedia's Oil Change program. Not normally required. Note - if you have TextBridge, CyberMedia Agent may attach itself to TextBridge and cause TextBridge to crash everything if this is disabled
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Energizer FileSaver.exe
Energizer FileSaver - UPS back-up utility for Energizer UPS products. From their Tech Support staff this is known to have a memory leak since it's release - with no fix planned! It will grab 2-5 handles per second and crash the average system in less than 3 days - therefore not recommended
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Fawgrd32.exe
Part of First Aid by Cybermedia who were subsequently bought by McAfee (Network Associates). Protects your Windows system from application failure and crashes
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HPHAxMON.EXE
Media card reader for some HP series printers allowing them to read digital camera memory cards directly. Only needed if you use this feature and known to cause system crashes in some cases. "x" can be 1, 2 or 3 and depends upon driver version. Replaced by HPHmon** (where ** is the version number) from version 4 onwards
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Mgabg.exe
Matrox BIOS Guard - monitors a Matrox card's BIOS, and will reflash it when needed. Cards like the G400 have a nasty habit of losing their BIOS, especially on poor power supplies. If you make an emergency BIOS disk with the utility in their BIOS package, you can disable Mgabg.exe and just use the crash disk if/when needed
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MMHotKey.exe
Multimedia key handling for the relevant type of Turbo-Media keyboard. Shortcut available. Note that with this running it can crash DirectX8/9 under WinXP when a game switches to full-screen
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MMHotKey.exe
Multimedia key handling for the relevant type of Turbo-Media keyboard. Shortcut available. Note that with this running it can crash DirectX8/9 under WinXP when a game switches to full-screen
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mxtask.exe
Part of Ontrack's Fix-it Utilities Suite. Loads a System Tray icon that lets you access the full program. Needed if you run the crash guard, intellicluster, anti-virus, or autoupdater. Otherwise not required
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nwrecmsg.exe
Broadcast message handler part of Novell Netware that displays server, printer and other messages - can cause crashes
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OODLed.exe
O&O DriveLED - hard disk monitoring and crash prevention
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RegMech.exe
Registry Mechanic - "you can safely clean and repair Windows registry problems with a few simple mouse clicks! Problems with the Windows registry are a common cause of Windows crashes and error messages"
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rsrcmtr.exe
Windows Resource Meter. Available via Start -> Programs. You may want this enabled if your PC is suffering from crashes and want to know potential causes
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sa.exe
StayAlive from TFI Technology. "This top-notch tool intercepts crashes when they happen, keeping your programs running so you can save your work."
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sctray.exe
Power Quest Second Chance. Sets checkpoints for saving a backup copy of the registry to a disk so you can restore it if you have a crash
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SHVRTF.EXE
PC Angel takes a 5-second snapshot of the current system registry each time the PC boots up. In the event of a crash, PC ANGEL will retrieve everything up to the minute before the crash or the last known stable registry
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thehel1iawgrd32.exe
Part of First Aid by Cybermedia who were subsequently bought by McAfee (Network Associates). Protects your Windows system from application failure and crashes
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TraySaver.exe
System Tray management utility from Mike Lin which allows you to hide, show, restore icons that are lost in an Explorer crash, remove dead tray icons, minimize any window to the System Tray
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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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wscrestp.exe
WinStart Commander - part of Ultra WinCleaner Utility Suite. Starts Windows faster and controls hidden programs to boost performance and prevent system slow downs and crashes
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YTRAYMAGIC.EXE
YTrayMagic from YoconSoft automatically restores your tray icons after an Explorer(the windows shell) crash. Leave to run at startup since only those icons that are in the taskbar after YTrayMagic has initialized will be restored
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