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Portable Starter

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It permits users to view and manage all running processes. #Startup manager  #Onboot manager  #Startup check  #Startup  #Start-up  #Check  

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Portable Starter is a nifty application that performs a simple, but essential task: that of monitoring and managing startup items. It lists all the entries that load on boot and allows you to remove the ones that are not necessary and clog up the system.

Portable Starter has an awesome advantage over similar applications: it lists startup items by user, thus enabling you to decide what loads on boot for each of the accounts you have created on your computer. As a secondary goal, Portable Starter was also designed to facilitate to offer you the possibility to control running processes and services.

The user interface is extremely intuitive and user-friendly. All of the items are listed in a large area, from where you can remove or add new entries. Disabling a startup item is done at the click of a button, as well as editing and accessing file properties.

In the Processes section, you can choose to terminate or assign a priority level to any of the running processes, while the next tab shows active services. Starter’s behavior can be tweaked from the Options menu, where there are possibilities to configure appearance and language.

An added bonus is Starter’s ability to show memory / CPU usage and statistics at all times. This is accomplished by a toolbar that resides at the bottom of the main window, but it can easily be removed from the Configuration window if it bothers you.

In conclusion, Portable Starter is very reliable and user-friendly. It acts light on system resources and successfully fulfills its main purpose: to enable you to manage the items that load during system startup and to choose which ones preserve their spot and which are out the door.

What's new in Portable Starter 5.6.2.9:

  • Enhanced Windows Vista compatibility.
  • Fixed too aggressive settings saving while swithing between main tabs (Startups, Processes, Services).
  • System memory graph was limited to 2 GB. Fixed.
  • Made large annoing tooltips for startup and service items to appear only at first column of the list.
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Portable Starter 5.6.2.9

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  portable version
This is the portable version of the application. An installable version is also available: Starter
  runs on:
Windows All
  file size:
717 KB
  filename:
Starter.zip
  4 screenshots:
Portable Starter - The application lists all startup elements, regardless of the registry section they are located in. You can enable/disable any of them.Portable Starter - Starter lists all running processes at the same time providing useful details such as memory usage peak, CPU priority, or PID.Portable Starter - General Options panel of the application allos configuration for settings storage location.Portable Starter - Confirmations section lets you enable dialogs acording to the type of the action undertaken.
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