- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (20-day trial); $29.99 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: June 03, 2008
- Total Downloads: 180,617
- Downloads last week: 226
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 36 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
We like the functionality of this program, which gives you a fine degree of control over the applications that launch at Windows start-up. You can choose which ones start, change the start-up sequence (useful for letting smaller programs launch before the big, slower applications), and set delays between application launches. Though Startup Faster 2004 may cut down your start-up time, the gain isn't dramatic. In our tests, Windows took 10 percent less time to start up. More tinkering may produce better gains and a lot will depend on how many programs you have set to automatically launch. The interface is clear. We like the help tips that appear when you mouse over elements of the interface, and it's convenient to be able to access the properties of a start-up item by right-clicking. If your system launches multiple applications at start-up, this program will help you fine-tune it and may gain you some boot-up speed.Publisher's description
From URSoft :Startup Faster makes your computer boot faster by launching your start-up applications one at a time rather than attempting to launch them all at once. As you may know, sometimes there are more than 30 programs launched by Windows at the same time, which causes Windows to boot up very slowly. With Startup Faster you can fully control how quickly programs launch and how they launch. It also includes a start-up manager, so you can take full control of the start-up programs and enable, disable, or permanently delete them.
What's new in this version:
- includes an "Error 740" bug fix on Vista.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.7 stars out of 36 votes
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35 out of 36 people found this review helpful
Version: Startup Faster 3.0
"Startup Optimizer is better."
Pros: The interface is all that I like.
Cons: Launching startup programs one at a time slows down boot up and boot down time. Startup Optimizer is a better choice because I can disable startup programs and my computer starts up and shuts down faster.
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33 out of 33 people found this review helpful
Version: Startup Faster 3.0
Pros: none was ciompletelys useless
Cons: slowed pc down did not do what was promised
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33 out of 33 people found this review helpful
Version: Startup Faster 3.0
"Quick Startup suits me better"
Pros: Didn't really find any - It sort of does what it says, in that it will load up the programs one after the other.
Cons: PC took longer to load under the watchfull eye of 'Startup Faster 3'. One app in particular refused to complete loading for ages & I always had to manually hurry it up.
Summary: Tried several times to get it to do what it says, deleted it after a day.
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33 out of 34 people found this review helpful
Version: Startup Faster 3.0
Pros: none same here w/ the virus thing
Cons: a m*t*e* f*c*i*g virus do not get!!!
Summary: avast kept me clean by the way its free for home version!!!
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33 out of 34 people found this review helpful
Version: Startup Faster 3.0
Pros: didnt it was of no uuse
Cons: had to clean out my pc
Summary: uninstalled it never use again
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