Nuts & Volts - July 2005

hog system resources, stealing your productivity and making your system sluggish. Worse yet, other processes hide spyware and Trojans, violating your privacy and opening the door for hackers to gain access to your passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive personal information. ProcessLibrary.com is a free resource that shines a light on all of your Windows processes.

By pressing ctl-alt-del in Windows, you can look at a list of every process that is running on your computer. Typing the name of any process into ProcessLibrary.com's search box will give you a detailed description of the process, the name of the author and the software package that it is associated with, the type of process (system, application, virus, Trojan, spyware), and information about how it will affect your computer.

The website also offers a search engine of DLL information. Every Windows computer has hundreds of DLL programs. Most are harmless. ProcessLibrary.com will tell you what each program is, who created it, why it's on your hard drive, and what you should do with it.

Webmasters who want to give their visitors information about Windows processes can link their sites directly to ProcessLibrary.com and display the Top 5 most popular processes, the Top 5 security threats, and the Top 5 newly discovered processes.

With millions of page views every month, www. processlibrary.com has grown to become the primary reference point for thousands of users around the globe. Processlibrary.com is featured on a large number of sites and in USA Today, Yahoo!, and The Washington Post.

The extensive database available on ProcessLibrary.com is part of the WinTasks 5 Pro application from Uniblue Systems Ltd. Win Tasks 5 Pro can identify and remove the unwanted processes that are running on any Windows computer.

For more information about ProcessLibrary.com, contact Kevin J Vella at kevinjv@uniblue.net.

BEST, Inc., and Partners Announce Lead Free Rework Training Course

BEST Inc., in conjunction with its project partners, Cookson Electronics Assembly Materials and Automated Learning Corp., now offer a “Lead Free Rework” assembly training course. This interactive multimedia learning course — which allows the student to learn the material at a time convenient for them — is designed for rework technicians, process engineers, and repair depot technicians and their respective managers who are involved in the rework of lead-free electronic assemblies.

As part of the suite of lead-free assembly courses, the Lead Free Rework course teaches key concepts through presentation, practice, and testing of the material. The learning takes place at any time or place that is conducive for the student. Learning is assured through a final

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