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Startup Defender 4.5

Startup Defender is a small Windows startup manager program that sits in your Windows tray and constantly monitors in real time the startup locations on your PC to help prevent programs from auto starting up behind your back. If a program tries to write itself into any startup location Startup Defender will pop up a windows and ask if the program is allowed to place itself to start automatically with Windows.

Also you can disable/enable any programs that are currently installed to startup automatically.

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see a not so useless program msconfig can do the same -_-

if you type msconfig in the start menu for vista/7 you can do the same as this program. windows 8 has got this inside taskmanager

Kevin van Oosterhout, 26.11.2012, 10:06

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Include an automatic shut down of Zards Startup Defender once the start up process has completed.

Once the computer as completed it's start up sequence and all programs are running, it would be a useful attribute if the program could automatically switch off to save on system resources.

Whiterabbit-uk, 26.11.2012, 09:29

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Startup Defender 4.5

Enable users to choose the installation path. This program automatically installs to the root directory (usually C:\) without giving the option to change to another path.

If using this with a laptop be able to create a separate list of non essential start up programs that automatically close down or at least via the click of a button if the laptop is on battery only -thus saving power and extending the life of the

Include the ability to separate Windows and non-Windows services from the toolbar.

Convert this program to freeware or at least create a dumbed down freeware version. There are 'better' freeware startup managers already available

Improve the amount of information given to each start up program when highlighting it, there is very little information given about any of the start up programs in my list compared to the likes of the freeware version of Anvir Task Manager

Create a useful suite of tools by including Startup Defender with Cleanse Uninstaller, Task Manager (GoGoStop) and the Menu Organizer, adding them to a toolbox rather than selling them separately.

Include the ability to temporarily stop start up items so that you have more control over what programs are running in the background at specific times; e.g. when you are playing games you don't need a lot of background system resources runningng

Enable a faster boot-time by being able to start up more than one process, service and program at a time. Using multi-core cpu's, this should be possible; the more cores, the faster they load.

Include the ability to check each process and Service via Google (as you can with the Start-up programs)

Include an off-line help document with links to decent video tutorials - essential for novice users and useful for any user.

Include a network option so that I can control the start up programs opening on all of the computers on my home network

Include information about drivers linked to their target programs. You could even include information about the version number and whether updates are available.

Improve the GUI, it looks boring.

Include a Task Manager as integral with the Start Up Defender and then separate programs as well as Startup's, Services and Processes

Add a security risk indicator. Color coding those at most risk Red to Green for the lowest risk

This program automatically installs itself to the computers start up que without asking permission. The developer should allow the user to choose whether to install to the start up.

see a not so useless program msconfig can do the same -_-

Include the ability to automatically link each start-up program/process with an online virus checker such as Virus Total.

Include the ability to run Zards Startup Defender from a portable device. This would save on system resources.

Include an automatic shut down of Zards Startup Defender once the start up process has completed.

Mark important and/or essential start-up programs to make them obvious to novice users.

incorporate the creation of specific-to-work startup programs in Groups, upon the next restart. StartCop, or somesuch, a long-time utility from PCmagazine had it, and its wonderful for saving resource overhead!