Anyone can download a trail version but a lot of the most useful features are only shown in the registered version.

Downloading a trail is just a matter of visiting their website www.answersthatwork.com . On start up it analyses all the running processes on your PC and in my case put them into five sections. Not OK, Unknown, Users Choice, Multiple Possibilities and OK.

In the trial version all this is done but you are not told how to get rid of the Not OK. Mind you to be fair if they did you would have no need of the product.

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I was told I had six processes running that were just taking up memory and thereby slowing the PC down. After a couple of reboots and a few changes this is now down to three and I have another 42MB of available memory. What you may say of the other three Not OK processes well so far they are still there despite me carrying out all the instructions suggested more than once. However as these only take up 3.7MB of memory I am less concerned.

I do have ten unknown processes and you can email them a log of these, a couple I know about but as yet after more than a month I have only had an acknowledgement of my notification.

There are a total of eight headings Status, Process Name, Path, Process ID, Threads, Priority, Usage and Started. These are spread across the screen spreadsheet like with three other sections below. Our Findings And Our Views On This Task and the all important Our Recommendations (And More Views) below each other and the Database Information on the Right side beside the two items mentions. This last task shows Status, Manufacturer and Task Information. All this under the first Tab Tasks.

The next Tab is Services this has six headings Status, State, Name, Display name, Start Mode and Path. This Tab works with the same screen layout as the Tasks Tab.

The Hardware Tab is different, a list down the left side of the various hardware processes a total of eighteen items for my PC with ten of these having sub items. What you get for the rest of the screen is a large list with alternate red and while lines for ease of reading.

The final Tab is Startups and this returns to the layout used by Tabs for Tasks and Services.

I am undecided about the merits or not of this program but I print the following as extracted from their website for you to think about. ‘A staggering 65% of problems which a PC encounters, whether in business or at home, are not caused by hardware problems, they are not caused by viruses, they are not caused by spam;  they are caused by background tasks belonging largely to legitimate and well-known software you use every day !’ 

Why not download the trial version from www.ATWTUT.com and analyze it for yourself if you think it looks useful then it costs $29 for a single PC, less for multiple PC’s. The version I have (still current) is 2.70