More About What it Does in Detail:

I usually provide some quoted txt from the developers website at this point which helps to show the intent and functionality of the program. In this case there is nothing but download mirrors shown on the website. So I have take text from the Softpedia website which seems to share a similar “theme” to text on other download sites and forum postings:

Starter description

Allows one to view and manage all the programs that start automatically.

Starter is yet another startup manager, that allows you to view and manage all the programs that are starting automatically whenever Windows boots.
Starter will list all the hidden registry entries, as well as the common Startup Folder items as well. You can choose to safely disable selected entries, edit them or delete them altogether (if you know what you are doing). Expert users can even add their own entries.
As a primary purpose, Starter allows one to view and manage all the programs that are starting automatically whenever operating system is loading.
It enumerates all the hidden registry entries, startup folders’ items and some of the initialization files, so that the user could choose to temporarily disable selected entries, edit them, create new, or delete them permanently.
Secondary purpose is to list all the running processes with possibility to view extended process’ information (such as used DLLs, memory usage, thread count, priorities etc.), and to terminate selected process (even a Windows NT service, having enough access rights).
Starter is a real Freeware and is not crippled in any way among the similar products. The user interface is pretty simple and has a lot of options that are self-explanatory.

The above text does not give details on the Windows Services aspects of the program so don’t forget about them!

On running Starter the following screens and menus are provided:

This review will follow the usual format of presenting the majority of information as screenshots backed up by further information where necessary.

(click on any picture to enlarge where necessary)

System Tray icon

When running the following systray icon is presented along with a Tooltip:

Right clicking on the icon with the mouse allows you to either Restore (display the main GUI) or to exit the program.

Main Window

When first stating the main GUI window the Startup tab is displayed which list all the programs listed for starting at system boot wherever this is initiated from (registry, startup folder or system ini files). There is a useful tree structure pane to the left which allows everything to be selected or you can display startup entries from specific area.

There is a useful toolbar at the top and a pane at the bottom which shows more details of the startup process.

The statusbar also shows CPU and memory usage as previously noted.

The details available in the main area can be seen in the following screenshot:

Hovering the mouse on any startup item line shows a tooltip with details of the process, etc.

The following menu items are available:

Menubar File

This provides some extensive export functions.

Menubar Configuration

Right Click Context Menu

This provides access to the main “Edit” functions and search sites on the web.

Startup File Information Window

This provides all the main details for any startup program including:

• File location and attributes
• Version Information
• Vendor/developer

Startup Edit Window

This allows you to edit the program and parameters for any startup item.

  Processes Tab

Clicking on the processes tab displays a list and some details of all the currently running processes.

The following screenshot shows all the available details in the processes window:

Processes File Information

Again, more details of the process are available in the lower pane or as a separate window:

Processes Right Click Context Menu

Processes Configuration Menubar

The configuration items on the Menubar change to align with the processes tab requirements.

Again, good access to various functions and web searches.

Services Tab

Again good use of the tree pane to access different types of services.

The following screenshot shows all the information columns available:

Services Tooltip

Hovering the mouse over any service line shows detailed information in the Tooltip

Services Edit Window

General Tab

This window has 4 tabs which include:

1. General Tab (above)
2. Account Tab
3. Recover Tab
4. Dependencies’ Tab (below)

These can be used to display and edit all the main parameters for the Windows Services set up on the computer.

Help

As previously mentioned, Help for Starter is non-existent but there are lots of links to useful resources.

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