Software → Re: [XP] Best startup managing program?

I thought it was worth mentioning that a great complement to any startup manager program is Mike Lin's StartupMonitor. This small utility only consumes about 192K of RAM and will alert you any time a program tries to register itself to a startup location. »www.mlin.net/StartupMoni ··· or.shtml

JP

said by jp0469:

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I thought it was worth mentioning that a great complement to any startup manager program is Mike Lin's StartupMonitor. This small utility only consumes about 192K of RAM and will alert you any time a program tries to register itself to a startup location. »www.mlin.net/StartupMoni ··· or.shtml

JP

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This is one of the must haves on my computer. I'm shocked at what programs try to sneak into your startup. Thanks for mentioning this great application JP.

Does StartupMonitor handle the Startup group? I'm using DiamondCS RegistryProt, and it is not too bad, but it doesn't watch the Startup group. (It does watch some other keys, though, like VBS file associations.)

said by mod bait:

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Does StartupMonitor handle the Startup group? I'm using DiamondCS RegistryProt, and it is not too bad, but it doesn't watch the Startup group. (It does watch some other keys, though, like VBS file associations.)

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No it doesn't scodan. All it does is monitor programs that try to put an entry in startup.

said by meeow:

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said by mod bait:

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Does StartupMonitor handle the Startup group? I'm using DiamondCS RegistryProt, and it is not too bad, but it doesn't watch the Startup group. (It does watch some other keys, though, like VBS file associations.)

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No it doesn't scodan. All it does is monitor programs that try to put an entry in startup.

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On my systems, StartupMonitor seems to block entries added to the Startup Group. As a test, make a shortcut to a file. Then copy that shortcut into the Startup Group. StartupMonitor should pop up to ask you whether or not you want the item to run at startup.

said by TechyDad:

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On my systems, StartupMonitor seems to block entries added to the Startup Group. As a test, make a shortcut to a file. Then copy that shortcut into the Startup Group. StartupMonitor should pop up to ask you whether or not you want the item to run at startup.

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Thanks--that answers my question. I knew how to test, I just didn't want to waste time finding out the hard way that it doesn't do what I want.

said by jp0469:

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This small utility only consumes about 192K of RAM and will alert you any time a program tries to register itself to a startup location. »www.mlin.net/StartupMoni ··· or.shtml

JP

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I love it-have had it for three months-very unobtrusive!

Just FYI, StartupMonitor 1.02 does catch startup shortcuts, but it ignores the User/RunOnce and Machine/RunOnceEx keys. RegistryProt is just the opposite. I guess I'll run both.

Scodan,

As someone who doesn't know very much about computers but trying to learn, is there any potential problems or conflicts if you run both StartupMonitor 1.02 and RegistryProt.

Thanks

said by MLV56:

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As someone who doesn't know very much about computers but trying to learn, is there any potential problems or conflicts if you run both StartupMonitor 1.02 and RegistryProt.

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None that I can see. The biggest "problem" is that they do overlap in terms of functionality. Both, for example, catch User/Run entries that get added. So, when a new entry of that type appears, you will have to respond to a RegistryProt dialog, and a StartupMonitor dialog. This isn't a conflict, just a minor hassle.

I'm evaluating StartupMonitor for memory leaks right now. And I do hate the way it installed itself into my Windows directory without asking. There has to be a better solution out there...

Scodan,

Thank you for the information and quick reply.