STARTUP MANAGER: Introduction

When you turn on your computer certain applications, drivers, and services are automatically started at the beginning of each Windows session.   The information that tells Windows to automatically start these items can be located in a number of places, ranging from a program group on your Start Menu, to certain initialization files that are looked at when Windows starts, to one of many places in the system Registry.  The Windows StartUp manager tool empowers you with the extremely useful ability to centrally manage all of these items using one single interface.  Using the Windows StartUp manager you can easily add to, remove, edit, disable, and enable any and all of these "startup items" in order to keep your system’s boot-up process as fast and efficient as possible.

One of the first things many professional computer technicians will do when diagnosing a problematic computer system is to figure out what is being loaded at the beginning of each Windows session.  Knowing what is automatically being loaded and what remains in memory is one of the first key pieces of information to explore whenever a computer system is having trouble operating properly.  Often, by simply disabling or removing certain things that are loaded at startup, problems and conflicts can be resolved.  Using System Mechanic’s Windows StartUp manager you can do all of this and more.