Friday, August 20, 2010

Startups@Ease has Been Released

I finally launched a freeware tool called Startups@Ease that I have been developing in the past few months. The program is mainly designed to help non-geeks to manage unwanted startups in their computers. When executed, the program searches for unnecessary startups and then displays them as a series of questions and (yes/no) answers to the user. These questions are phrased such a way that non-technically sophisticated users can understand and be able to make a judgment whether they actually need the unnecessary startups or not. The tool does NOT delete or uninstall any of your programs. All of the startup programs that appear in the Q&A wizard can be accessed either through the start menu or from the control panel. In addition, the tool automatically creates backups of any programs it has disabled from startups.

The tool is available here: http://www.startupsatease.com

To use the program, click the begin button as in the image
below:
If an unnecessary startup is found, a wizard will pop-up similar to the image below. However, the questions posted will vary from one computer to another.
Once, the wizard is complete a page will pop-up which contains a review for all of the selected answers for each question. At this page, select the confirm button and then you will need to restart your computer.The program does not enforce a restart and does not have the option to perform a restart. Hence, users should perform the restart at their own will from the start menu.

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