Best Startup Managers for Windows XP
By on November 27th, 2007

Many programs these days install themselves to the start up menu, slow down the windows starting up time, and make a lot of hassles. There also comes a threat of viruses and trojans occupying the startup list, and causing harm. So, you need a tool that is specifically made for managing startup programs to get rid of the unwanted.

So, here goes a list of the a few best freeware startup managers:

1. Startup Control Panel

Startup Manager in the Control Panel

 

This free startup manager installs itself as an applet in the Windows Control Panel, and has good features. You can manage your entire startup list, delete items from startup, and also let applications run only once on the consecutive startup. Download

2. Startup Run

Startup Run

Yet another simple startup manager utility, listing out all the programs that load on startup. You can, as always, edit, enable, disable, delete startup entries. Additionally, you can export the list to a html/text file. Download

3. Scott’s Startup Manager

Free Startup Manager from Scott

This one is much straight forward and does just the job. The simple interface lets you add, edit, delete startup programs. Download

4. Startup Manager

Free Startup Manager

Another one, a bit more comprehensive than the above. This tool can be used to edit the Win.ini file that Windows uses to load settings on startup. Recommended for advanced users. Download

Did I miss out anything? Tell us in the comments.

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Keith Dsouza has written and can be contacted at keith@techie-buzz.com.
  • http://maximillianx.blogspot.com Rob Dunn

    I’m a big fan of Autoruns by SysInternals/Microsoft…it is comprehensive (checks win.ini, startup registry keys, startup group, and other places you wouldn’t think of looking) – also can look at startup items for other users.

    Like the blog!

    Rob

    • keith

      I am a big fan of SysInternals too and I use its Process Explorer quite religiously. Thanks for visiting here. Your blogs cool too will have fun reading yours.

  • http://www.techzilo.com/ Sumesh

    Now, that’s a list! I was looking for something like this, coz my startup is just cluttered.

    • keith

      Glad you found it useful. You can clean it up now.

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  • sbw07

    Take a look at WinPatrol. It can prevent programs from autostarting without your permission.

 
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