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Winpatrol

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Winpatrol provides a multitude of functions including startup control. It is a useful addition to any armoury to maintain computer as best as possible. Oh and a cute scotty icon for your toolbar!

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License model

  • Freemium • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Windows
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Discontinued

No update since 2017, website certificate is expired, twitter account is inactive and they seem not to be answering support requests.

3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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Winpatrol information

  • Developed by

    Bill P Studios

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0 + free version with limited functionality.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3

  • Alternatives

    31 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Winpatrol, and it has gotten 36 likes

Winpatrol was added to AlternativeTo by Bob on Apr 13, 2009 and this page was last updated Oct 20, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
robyellow95
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•Aug 29, 2019
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A good program that got abandoned. That's too bad.

Top Negative Comment
maxbramble
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•May 26, 2019
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Winpatrol used to be a great program. I bought it many years ago and never regretted the purchase. It was my "go-to" program to discover information about files on my PC.

Sadly, it seems like Ruiware, LLC, the company behind WinPatrol and other assorted programs, is no longer active. I performed some extensive "digging" and found that all activity has ceased. This includes the software website, Facebook and Twitter, and it's been that way since mid 2017. Here is an extract from the Florida Department of State: Data last refreshed on Saturday, January 19, 2019.....

Corporate Filings for Ruiware, LLC Florida Department of State Filing Type: Foreign Limited Liability Status: Inactive State: Florida State ID: M14000002929 Date Filed: Tuesday, April 29, 2014

It really is a shame that the WinPatrol software wasn't on-sold and supported. I'd like to give it 5 stars but because it is "dead" I can only give it 1 star.

TBayAreaPat
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•Oct 15, 2022
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2023 and I use it all the time. Old with some old artifacts/abilities lost, but It's great as a quick fixup for things that heavier all-in-ones try to get you to pay for... Startup programs, Kill task, Delay Startups, View Hosts file, Service Settings, etc. ..and the little barking notification when a program tries to add itself to startup.. I find that particularly useful. Still, I find myself needing to use Autoruns to tweak the nitty gritty such as Services that WinPatrol doesn't disable.

zzynx
•May 4, 2019
0

WinPatrol is dead/abadonware.

  • No more updates since October 2017
  • The certificate of their website is invalid
  • No answer when you mail them

What is Winpatrol?

Winpatrol provides a multitude of functions including startup control. It is a useful addition to any armoury to maintain computer as best as possible. Oh and a cute scotty icon for your toolbar!

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