Little known use for Windows Defender

Most users will download, install and run Windows Defender and let it do what it does - protect your system from malware. But there is a little know, but very useful tool, that comes with Windows Defender called Software Explorer.

Software Explorer is a pretty powerful tool that lets you monitor

• whats running on your system
• networked connected software
• winsock connected software
• what will be running at startup

I know that a lot of applications do this but this one

• groups software by developer
• offers more information
• tells whether it was shipped with the operating system
• and how (on startup applications) it was started

This is worth checking out.