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Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel

It seems that every program you load on your machine adds something new to the startup process and, before you know it, there's stuff going on you don't know about and maybe don't want happening. Your system takes longer and longer to start and seems to drag more and more as time goes on. It seems to me that anything that gives you more information or control over startup is a good thing. I've used this utility to do just that for several years and I highly recommend it.

The Startup Control Panel give you a direct look into all the different processes that load as your system starts. It's easy to access from the Windows Control Panel and it lets you selectively disable or delete them. A word of caution though: You're messing with the Registry here so be sure to know what you're doing. Creating a System Restore point before any changes would be a wise step.