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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: September 01, 2008
- Total Downloads: 34,003
- Downloads last week: 174
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 19 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This robust freeware displays system activity with more detail than with many expensive programs. System Explorer's tight multitabbed dialog-box-size interface logically arranges and displays more information than most experienced users would need. The program could use an extensive Help manual, but instead relies on expert user knowledge.
Operating System Explorer is primarily point-and-click. On start, the app loads all information it collects. Fourteen tabs logically spread the info into manageable portions. With a click, users can monitor tasks, processes, performance, history, windows, connections, and opened files. Each tab includes detailed information about the items included. Many details listed are easily investigated with right-click access to find information online at sites like Google and ProcessLibrary. Such investigation is limited by the depth of information available at the Web sites.
In addition to the monitoring tools, System Explorer offers single-click access to numerous Windows tools. Disk defragmenter, computer, group policy, services, and task management aren't part of the application, but are made much easier to reach.
System Explorer is freeware, but leaves nothing out for a program in this genre. This fast application is sure to become an important part of any expert user's toolbox.
Publisher's description
From Mister Group :This full-featured system analyzing tool lets you take a sneak peek at everything that's going on in your system, from currently active processes to installed drivers, including also network collections, startup applications and Internet Explorer add-ons, if you have any. You can end any active process or delete items from the startup menu, to name a couple of examples. System Explorer has the possibility to obtain more information about each process from google, or check it for virus with an online anti-virus tool. The program includes loads of other interesting features.
Version 1.5 includes support for external and internal plugins, filtering support to lists, and new plugin adds security enhancements.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.5 includes support for external and internal plugins, filtering support to lists, and new plugin adds security enhancements.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 19 votes
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Version: System Explorer 1.5
"Invaluable system X-ray viewer"
Pros: Thorough analysis of how programs are interacting in real time. Exhaustive lists of protocols, handlers, services and drivers active or not available from the tabbed interface. Improvements include security checking for these components
Cons: Users must be very experienced and educated to get the most out of the displays. System Explorer can allow Registry editing without backup, not a good idea if you don't know what you're doing. A very valuable tool for experts.
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Version: System Explorer 1.5
"Easy to use ,tricky to follow through"
Pros: handy being able to see whats running
Cons: some of the stuff it showed was totally unexpected but it takes up a lot of ram in itself
Summary: I found the initial part of the programme easy to use but the terminator bit was tricky, and i gave up
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: System Explorer 1.5
"Good software, but odd network connection"
Pros: It works very well.
Cons: It's network connection tab shows that it is connected to www2.skok.com I'm not liking that feature.
Summary: On pure functionality I'd give it a 5, but since it is connecting to a website without the user's knowledge it's rating drops.
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Version: System Explorer 1.5
"ease of use and plays well with other similar programs"
Pros: ease of use and plays well with other similar programs
Cons: none at all
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Version: System Explorer 1.5
"I've had this program only a few days"
Pros: very comprehensive
Cons: nothing so far
Summary: very little experience with product; seems to do it's job OK!
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