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Best Of: Best Free Startup Managers

Does your computer take a while to start? When it loads windows does it have dozens on icons in the tray area? Many people make the mistake of letting programs like winzip, winamp, messengers, and also hardware drivers start with windows, the problem is every time your windows has to boot the computer and log on to your user account, it also has to load all that useless junk that you can later open by double clicking its desktop icon.The only applications that should start with Windows are your antivirus, anti spyware and firewall.Here are the top startup managing freeware, some programs like Spybot S&D come with this tool in its advance options:

1) WinPatrol: WinPatrol allows you to get a better understanding of what programs are being added to your computer. It monitors important system areas that are commonly altered by many malicious programs. This includes the startup groups (registry and startup folder), cookies and active tasks. You can terminate processes and enable or disable startup programs. The cookie monitoring option allows you to automatically delete cookies based on a keyword found in the cookie name. Additional features include a WHOIS lookup tool and an option to alert you on changes. WinPatrol is easy to understand, yet quiet powerful.

2) Startup Delayer: Startup Delayer allows you to specify which programs to start first and which ones to delay. You can set a custom delay for each one, even drag the visual display graph which shows you exactly how your programs are starting and allows you to easily modify the order or adjust delay times.

3) AutoRuns: AutoRuns shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Services, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can highlight an entry and click the “jump to” button to launch Regedit with the selected entry. In addition to startup programs, Autoruns also displays a list of Services, Scheduled Tasks, Winsock Providers, Internet Explorer BHOs and more – each of them can also be enabled/disabled.

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