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PCMagazine What's Going On?

What is PCMagazine What's Going On??  (from Ziff Davis Media)

What's Going On? is a system utility that gives you a one-stop spot for all your system's vital stats. Windows comes packaged with many tools to find details about the current state of your system. There's Task Manager for discovering the processes that are using your CPU, Resource Monitor for investigating your disk a...  Read more

Overview

PCMagazine What's Going On? is a program developed by Ziff Davis Media. The main program executable is whatsgoingon.exe. The software installer includes 14 files and is usually about 2.97 MB (3,110,326 bytes). In comparison to the total number of users, most PCs are running the OS Windows 7 (SP1) as well as Windows Vista (SP2). While about 83% of users of PCMagazine What's Going On? come from the United States, it is also popular in Canada and Germany.

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2341617,00.asp
Help link: www.pcmag.com
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\PC Magazine Utilities\WhatsGoingOn\
Uninstaller: "C:\Program Files\PC Magazine Utilities\WhatsGoingOn\unins000.exe"
Estimated size: 2.97 MB

Program filesFiles installed by PCMagazine What's Going On?

Program executable:whatsgoingon.exe
Name:WhatsGoingOn
Path:C:\Program Files\pc magazine utilities\whatsgoingon\whatsgoingon.exe
MD5:74b752ddca8897d1714c005ab432d96a
Additional files:
  • UpdateDll.dll - Update Dll
  • GalaSoft.MvvmLight.Extras.WPF4.dll (by GalaSoft Laurent Bugnion @ http://www.galasoft.ch) - GalaSoft.MvvmLight.Extras
  • GalaSoft.MvvmLight.WPF4.dll (by GalaSoft Laurent Bugnion @ http://www.galasoft.ch) - GalaSoft.MvvmLight
  • GongSolutions.Wpf.DragDrop.dll - GongSolutions.Wpf.DragDrop
  • InstallDriver.exe
  • Microsoft.Expression.Interactions.dll (by Microsoft) - Microsoft.Expression.Interactions
  • Microsoft.Practices.ServiceLocation.dll (by Microsoft) - Microsoft.Practices.ServiceLocation
  • Microsoft.Windows.Shell.dll - Microsoft.Windows.Shell
  • System.Windows.Interactivity.dll - System.Windows.Interactivity
  • unins000.exe - Setup/Uninstall
  • unins001.exe
  • updatedll3.dll - UpdateDll3
  • WhatsGoingOn2.exe - WhatsGoingOn2 (What's Going On 2)

How do I remove PCMagazine What's Going On??

You can uninstall PCMagazine What's Going On? from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program PCMagazine What's Going On?, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove PCMagazine What's Going On?.

OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 50%
Win Vista (SP1) 4%
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 24%
Keep it 76%
 
US RANK
#34,033

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 50.00%
Windows Vista 19.23%
Windows XP 15.38%
Windows 10 11.54%
Windows Server 2003 3.85%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 26.92%
Microsoft Windows XP 19.23%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 19.23%
Windows 7 Professional 11.54%
Windows 7 Ultimate 11.54%
Windows 10 Home 3.85%

Distribution by countryGeography

82.93% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 82.93%
  Canada 9.76%
  Germany 2.44%
  United Kingdom 2.44%
  Panama 2.44%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 30.00%
Dell 25.00%
Acer 10.00%
American Megatrends 10.00%
GIGABYTE 5.00%
Gateway 5.00%
Sony 5.00%
MSI 5.00%
Intel 5.00%
Common models
Sony VGN-CR42S_L 5.00%
MSI MS-7589 5.00%
Micro-Star MS-7596 5.00%
HP-Pavilion KL649AV-ABA m... 5.00%
HP-Pavilion KJ381AA-ABA m... 5.00%
HP Pavilion dv9500 Notebo... 5.00%

About Ziff Davis Media

Ziff Davis is a publisher and Internet company that has primarily published computer and technology related magazines, and its growing number of websites, spun off from its magazines, have established Ziff Davis as an Internet Information company.
Publisher URL: www.ziffdavis.com

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