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TuneUp StartUp Manager
Many applications start automatically together with Windows without asking for your
permission. There are some important functions and services that it makes sense to have
on your system; for example, a virus scanner, a management tool for your WLAN network,
or a configuration console for your sound card.
It also makes sense to automatically start up these programs every time you logon to
Windows. But there are also some applications it does not make sense to open every time
Windows starts up. Newly installed applications sometimes add themselves to the Startup
folder without asking for your permission, causing Windows to start more slowly. These
programs then go on to run invisibly in the background and eat away at system resources.
And what is worse, some of these programs even bother you with annoying questions or
advertising.
Many users know that programs that are started automatically often simply add a shortcut
to the Startup folder in the Start menu, and that these shortcuts can be deleted there. But
that is only part of the story. Most of these startup interlopers make an entry directly into
the registry and so never appear in the Startup folder. Particularly under Windows Vista,
the introduction of scheduled tasks at system startup and user logon frequently lead to the
automatic startup of programs. TuneUp StartUp Manager finds every application that
launches itself automatically, no matter where the start command is hidden.
TuneUp Startup
Manager frees your
system from
unnecessary
automatic startup
programs
TuneUp StartUp
Manager begins by
showing you a list
of programs that
automatically start
up when Windows
does.