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CLUSTER STARTUP-UTILITY-ADD · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-09-01

Startup manager desktop utilities

This cluster comprises desktop utilities for managing startup applications and scripts, enabling users to view, add, edit, enable, disable, or delete autostart entries. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only four dated entries exist before the index start. Traction leaders include BootLens and Windows-Startup-App-Manager, each with 2 stars, while StartupInspector has 1 star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2013: 1MAY 2023: 1AUG 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 2
JAN 2013OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 5 hobby · 4 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01close-all-background4★14 days—hobbyDesktop utility that lists Windows background applications and closes selected ones after confirmation, with command-line options for scripted automation.
  2. 02BootLens2★27 dayslivehobbyDesktop app that analyzes Windows startup programs and lets users optimize what runs on boot.
  3. 03StartupInspector1★10 days—hobbyWindows utility that scans autostart locations and lets users enable, disable, or delete startup entries.
  4. 04Windows-Startup-App-Manager2★1 mo—hobbyDesktop utility that manages Windows startup programs, tasks, services, and registry entries with verified changes, undo, and recovery snapshots.
  5. 05Startup Configuration0★2 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that lets users view, add, and clean up autostart applications and startup scripts on their computer.
  6. 06StartupManager1★1 mo—hobbyDesktop tool for Windows that scans, enables, and disables startup items across registry, folders, scheduled tasks, services, and UWP apps, with backups.
  7. 07Ignition0★4 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that lets users add, remove, and edit startup applications, scripts, and commands run at login.
  8. 08jdSimpleAutostart0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop app that lets users manage their desktop environment's autostart entries according to the Freedesktop specification.
  9. 09Autostarts - Block apps from starting automaticall0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceSystem utility that displays apps' boot-time autostart triggers and enables root users to block unwanted background starts.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.