WinPatrol boasts being one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal against threats while at the same time using the least amount of system memory. WinPatrol was created with this idea in mind. Scotty may be a senior puppy at this stage of his life, but he's still my reliable companion.Whether you are on your computer or not, as long as it is on and connected to the Internet, it is under constant threat of harm, infection and the other turmoil of using the Internet.

And I've never found it to cause me any issues/problems/grief, in terms of false-positives nor crashing my system. Scheduled tasks only monitors those BillP classified as '1.0' - so most newer/current tasks are not covered.īottom line: I find that WinPatrol still performs some useful/valuable functions for me (taking up minimal resources to do so). Yes, certain aspects have been minimized, if not made obsolete.

So I realize what it does, which I feel still has value to me, and don't expect anything more from it. On XP, it still alerts me whenever I update my HOSTS file. It still work well with displaying services. The popup alerts, of programs added to startup still function as they always have. So it's still a great Startup Manager, to disable/remove of programs that insist on pushing themselves into the startup sequence. Keep in mind that, unlike most other security programs, WinPatrol did NOT EVER require updating signatures/definitions to perform its functions. 5 (from 2014) on my three systems - this was the last version that BillP still 'had his hands in'. However, I don't believe that WinPatrol itself has been rendered worthless. So yes, I would concur with your assessment of WinPatrol as 'abandonware'. Unfortunately, it seems that Bret Lowry (who, as you noted, purchased WinPatrol from BillP), has dropped out of sight The WinPatrol home page is no longer responsive.

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