Start Menus and Discstarter Html Cd-rom Menu System Software for Windows

Startup Guru
$19.95 - Lincoln Beach Software

Startup Guru will manage the programs that load on your Windows computer each time it starts. You can add, remove or temporarily disable any item. Great for removing adware/spyware or anything else that is slowing down your ability to get started using your computer! The ability to schedule startup items is another handy feature. Many programs don't need to start right away, so setting them to start at a specific time after bootup helps to optimize the bootup process. By spacing out the many programs that may be loading it will keep programs from fighting for your precious system resources all at once. Doing so allows you to access your computer faster! Startup Guru can also remove reoccurring entries from your system areas on boot up. If you have some type of adware/spyware that keeps inserting itself you can allow Startup Guru to remove the entry on bootup before it is accessed. In the Advanced mode you can utilize Profiles to store bootup options. Create a profile for when you play games, one for when you're doing business, or any other specific need and assign it to load the next time you log in or boot up. Your system will load the assigned programs and you'll be off and running in no time! Also allows character monitoring so you can start any program from anywhere! Type ASDF/ and have your favorite program start right up. No diving through a lot of menus to get to where you want to me.

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Start Menu Tweak
$22 - Miolapoza Software

Make your work nice!
Start Menu Tweak will help you fast sort the Start menu and the Favorites menu and will make your work with the computer more pleasant. It is a great utility with a clear interface.

Usually, when you install a program, it creates its shortcuts in the Start menu. Each day new and exciting programs come out in the world and we have to install them again and again. What happens to the Start menu in this process? Right, it grows enormously and it becomes more and more difficult to work with it.

Start Menu Tweak - a solution categorization the Start menu.
Sort the items in the Start menu by groups with Start Menu Tweak and you will get a compact menu where you will never get lost.

All menu items will be backed up after the installation for you to be always able to return to its primary view.

Automated sorting will speed up the sorting process. After it is over, you will only have to sort only some menu items. Now it is possible to sort items in subfolders as well.

Editing groups will allow you to create new groups and delete standard ones. Start Menu Tweak already has a set of groups - categories for the Start menu. Each group of the Start menu has its own icon displayed in the Start menu. You can replace this icon with your own.

After you sort the items in the Start menu and in the Favorites menu, you will have a menu layout. A menu layout is the structure of folders you get after you sort items. There can be several of them. And then, switching between layouts on the fly will allow you to use the Start menu more effectively making your work with the computer more pleasant.

Of course, you can sort shortcuts in Explorer, but then you will have to sort items in two folders. And the task will become more difficult if several users work with the computer.
Start Menu Tweak perfectly copes with these difficulties!

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Discstarter HTML CD-ROM Menu System
$125 - mirabyte GmbH & Co. KG

Discstarter is a highly customizable offline browser that allows the creation of modern, professional-looking menus and front-ends for CD-ROMs by using simple HTML. These front-ends meet the highest demands of quality and stability. Special programming knowledge is not required and you will not have to deal with complex authoring tools. Enhanced features for comfortable offline browsing are available, such as instant execution of EXE, ZIP, PDF and other file types directly from HTML pages. Any special system requirements for your menu, like activated JavaScript or the availability of the Flash(tm) plug in, can be easily tested by Discstarter. Also typical security features of normal web browsers such as popup blockers or warnings when clicking on a link that points to an executable file are disabled by Discstarter because it has been designed especially for offline content. So browser security features cannot mess up your front-ends and their functionality any more. Optional visual effects such as a drop shadow under Discstarter's browser window, or a smooth fade-in on startup, promote a professional look and feel to the user. A simple and clean looking Start Menu or a stunning multimedia application: everything is possible! Not only CD-ROM menus can be created using Discstarter, but impressive digital business cards, product or company presentations, catalogs, documentation and PowerPoint presentations can also be made. Other new media such as e-books or e-learning content can be easily created using Discstarter. Everything is done using HTML and other well known web technologies such as JavaScript, Flash(tm) or DHTML. This saves you lots of money and time because you can use the same content in many different ways e.g. for the Web, for print and now also for offline CD-ROM content. No other authoring tool offers this great synergy! Only a few clicks are required to set up a fully customized front-end.

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GSA Autostart Cleaner
$16 - GSA

Did you ever wonder why it takes so long until your computer starts up? Did you ever wonder why so many programs load when you turn your pc on? Did you ever wonder why everything is so slow or why you leak of available memory? Get rid of these useless programs. With GSA Autostart Cleaner you can. It will search all places in your operation system where applications leave their autostart entries (registry, ini-files, bat-files, autostart-menus,...). Then you can choose if one is really needed or if it can be deleted. This speeds up the whole boot process and finally resulting in a more stable system. Autostart Cleaner finally makes it easy for everyone to clean up his PC. In addition you can also clean the unwanted entries in the context menus from your explorer.

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StartPro
$15 - Daedalus Software

StartPro allows users to add and remove programs located in the Registry, Startup folder, and win.ini file that load during start-up. Features include SmartBin, which saves deleted items for future restoration, and Boot Options, which allows the user to modify settings located in the msdos.sys file. StartPro also includes support for drag-and-drop and clipboard functions.
This version includes added protection against overwriting the msdos.sys file with a malformed msdos.sys, updated menus to properly change after selecting the SmartBin, the addition of contextual menus to SmartBin items, miscellaneous bug fixes, the correction of a major bug that caused StartPro to lock up when used in Windows 2000, and the correction of a bug that prevented StartPro from retaining its window size and position.

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NextSTART
$39.9 - Winstep Software Technologies

NextSTART is part of Winstep Xtreme, a powerful suite of User Interface replacement applications that merge incredible usability and performance with breathtaking eye candy!

NeXuS is the dock system, and is just perfect for super fast access to your most used applications. You can have as many docks as you want, and each can have multiple sub-docks! When not in use, docks can hide behind your screen edges, taking virtually no screen space.

WorkShelf is a tabbed dock, better suited to complex organizational duties like organizing documents, URLs, movies, work projects, etc... If a dock is the top of your desk, then Workshelf is all the drawers below it.

NextSTART is the menu system - and takes care of all your task management needs as well. Menus are great for accessing infrequently used files and system related commands that aren't easily reachable in the file system or that have no readily user-recognizable graphic representation. You can create as many menus as you want, and, with NextSTART hotspots, you can invoke each of these menus by a super fast screen edge/corner bump with the mouse pointer.

The task management part of NextSTART allows you to efficiently organize and manipulate running tasks and windows. Using nothing but drag & drop, you can re-organize the items in your taskbar so that all your related documents are together (thus easier to find) and where you expect them to be, instead of where Windows decided to put them.

Modules, widgets, gadgets, docklets, desklets, are all different words to describe the same thing: mini-applications that usually live on your desktop and provide a staggering amount of information regarding your system, the weather, etc... Winstep Xtreme currently includes the following modules: a speaking Atomic Clock, Recycle Bin, Email Checker, Weather Monitor, CPU, Net and RAM Meters and the amazing 'fortune cookie' Wanda. New modules are constantly being added.

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