What does this tool do for me?

Ever find your PC low on memory when running resource intensive applications such as games and graphics utilities?  The most common reason for this is a system with too many items starting up when Windows does, hogging memory and resources, and stealing performance from your PC!  

When you turn on your computer certain applications, drivers, and services are automatically started at the beginning of each Windows session. The information that tells Windows to automatically start these items can be located in a number of places, ranging from a program group on your Start Menu, to certain initialization files that are looked at when Windows starts, to one of many places in the system Registry. 

The Windows StartUp manager tool empowers you with the extremely useful ability to centrally manage all of these items using one single interface. Using the Windows StartUp manager you can easily add to, remove, edit, disable, and enable any and all of these "startup items" in order to keep your system’s boot-up process as fast and efficient as possible.

One of the first things many professional computer technicians will do when diagnosing a problematic computer is attempt to figure out what is being loaded at the beginning of each Windows session. Knowing what is automatically being loaded and remaining in memory is one of the first key pieces of information to explore when a computer system is having trouble operating properly. Often, by simply disabling or removing certain things that are loaded at startup, problems and conflicts can be resolved. 

Using Ensembles for Windows'  StartUp Manager you can do all of this and more!

You have total control over the items that start when Windows does:

Add your own items
StartUp Manager gives you the power to easily add any program to your system's list of "startup applications".  Plus, you can choose when and how an application is started such as before you log on to your network and more!  You have 8 different areas where you can add startup items. Ever find yourself having to manually load the exact same programs each time Windows starts?  Simply add them to the startup list and have them ready for you automatically!

Enable and disable items
Possibly the most powerful feature in the Ensembles StartUp Manager is the ability to enable and disable individual startup items.  This is great for troubleshooting your PC - without the hassle of going into "Safe Mode"!

Easily customize your startup list
There are some programs that you'll want to start before others, or perhaps you want a program to load before you log on to your PC   There may also be times when you want programs to start after another has already loaded.  You can use the StartUp Manager to change all of these details and more!

Create customizable StartUp Profiles
Ever want to reboot and have a certain set of applications started and ready for you?  Ever want to restart Windows with nothing running in order to maximize performance for a certain application such as a resource intensive game or graphics program?  With StartUp Manager's new StartUp Profile technology, entire groups of startup item settings can be collectively saved and loaded at once, with no hassle, and no fear of being able to restore your original settings!

Hunt down and eliminate invalid startup items
Over time and by installing and uninstalling various applications, your system will begin to retain old and invalid startup items that no longer exists.  These items slow Windows down during the boot process because it has to search for and attempt to start these invalid items each time.  StartUp Manager will do the dirty work for you, and mark these time-wasting items in red so that you can remove them from the startup process, thereby speeding up your boot time and eliminating potential problems and error messages.