Author: Mike Lin

Ease of use: For users who know how to use the Registry Editor (regedit.exe)

Cost: Freeware (for donations: Tip Jar)

Download: StartUp Control Panel 2.8

Publisher’s Description:

Startup Control Panel is a nifty control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. It’s simple to use and, like all my programs, it’s very small and won’t burden your system. A valuable tool for system administrators!

Startup Control Panel is compatible with all modern versions of Windows through Windows XP. Windows Vista, after all these years, finally has a very good startup manager built-in; go to Control Panel > Performance Information and Tools, and then click on Manage Startup Programs on the left.

Editor’s Description:

This software is simple yet helpful. I usually use this to track unknown startup objects like from spywares and trojans.

Spywares and trojans usually starts in the StartUp registry, so with this, you can see or monitor whether there are new startup objects that are being added.