User's Manual

Enabling Automatic Program Startup
This starts the program automatically in the background when you next start the system. Afterwards, you can dis-
able automatic startup at any time again.
1. Select a startup program from the list.
2. Enable it using the switch or the button in the toolbar.
Adding a startup program
To have the system automatically run additional programs on system startup, simply add them to the list.
1. On the toolbar select the Add button. Alternatively you can right-click to open the context menu and select
the Add program entry.
2. From the list, select the program that is to start automatically each time the system is started. If this does not
happen, click Browse and select the program you want from the list that opens.
Removing a startup program from the list
If you are sure that you do not want a program to be started automatically, you can remove it from the list. You
can add it back to the list at a later stage by clicking Add or using TuneUp Rescue Center.
1. Select a startup program from the list.
2. On the toolbar, select the Delete button. Alternatively you can right-click to open the context menu and
select Delete.
Tips for Optimizing System Startup
As the name suggests, a startup program is one that automatically starts up every time you start up your com-
puter. For this reason, it is always active in the background and occupies your system's resources, even if you
never use the program. This makes perfect sense with a virus scanner, for example. On the other hand, some
other startup programs could place an unnecessary load on your system.
The fewer the programs that start up automatically in the background, the faster your system will start up. In
addition, your computer will run faster if there are no unnecessary programs active in the background.
What Guidance Does TuneUp StartUp Manager Offer?
For each program, decide based on the following information whether it should start automatically in the back-
ground on startup.
Evaluation
For most startup programs, TuneUp StartUp Manager provides an evaluation showing you whether an auto-
matic startup of the program is necessary, unnecessary or optional. Thanks to a database maintained by the
TuneUp team, all security-related programs, for example, will be classified as necessary. Well-known unnec-
essary startup programs will be classified as unnecessary. Other programs that appear incorrectly in the list will
also be considered as unnecessary. This is the case, for example, if an entry in the list refers to a program that has
already been uninstalled.
This classification can result in many programs being classified as optional. In this case, the decision is based on
your usage behavior. The description, online search or the Rating function for programs will help you further
with this.
Read more here about how the Rating function for programs can help you make the decision:
l Rating Function for Programs, p. 152
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