WinUtilities Startup Cleaner

Note: WinUtilities Startup Cleaner is no longer available as a standalone product. It's now part of WinUtilities Professional Edition, which you can download from this page. However, you can still download and install the last released standalone edition (v2.1) from Softpedia.

WinUtilities Startup Cleaner is a software application that enables you to manage programs which automatically run at system startup. It concerns all types of users, regardless of their skill level.

After a brief and uneventful setup procedure that does not require special attention from the user, you are greeted by a standard interface, consisting of a single window with a well-organized layout.

All apps which automatically run at Windows startup are immediately listed in the main window; you can find out their name, type and value, as well as sort them by user (all users or the current one), Registry type (run, run once, run service, run service once), or Windows INI (load or run section).

Aside from disabling these programs, you can edit their properties or add a new utility to the list by specifying the display name and application path. It is also possible to view detailed information about a particular application.

WinUtilities Startup Cleaner is very light on the system resources, using a minimal quantity of CPU and RAM. No error dialogs have been shown in our tests and the app did not hang or crash. WinUtilities Startup Cleaner delivers a straightforward solution to managing startup entries. Too bad it has not been updated for a long time.