WhatInStartup – Manage Programs at Windows Startup

WhatInStartup is a free software with which you can disable/enable/delete programs at Windows startup.

Run WhatInStartup, it will display the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. The following information of these applications will be displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version, Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and more. Then you can easily disable or delete unwanted programs that runs in your Windows startup.

WhatInStartup also supports a special “Permanent Disabling” feature – If a program that you previously disabled added itself again to the startup list of Windows,
WhatInStartup will automatically detect the change and disable it again. This means that as long as WhatInStartup is running, the programs that you disabled won’t return back to Windows startup.

If you don’t want that
WhatInStartup will run in the background, you can use the /pdisable command-line option: When you run WhatInStartup.exe with /pdisable parameter, it’ll check all startup items that you previously disabled, and if it finds previously disabled items that are now enabled, it’ll automatically disable them again for you, without displaying any user interface.

Download
This is a zip archive, download and extract to any folder you like. Run WhatInStartup.exe!
No need to install, it is portable.

You can download other language files and learn about command-line options and using WhatInStartup on external drive.

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