Norton Utilities is a well-known and very classic PC utilities software for DOS and Windows, developed by Peter Norton in 1982 (later sold to Symantec Corporation). It integrates disk editing, disk diagnosis and repair, system optimization, system performance testing, virus detection and removal and many other functions in one place, can help users quickly and intelligently optimize the system, so as to improve user computer performance.

At least in the following cases, we need to manage and control the Windows startup items: 1) Speed up Windows boot by reducing the startup items of unnecessary programs and services, or adjusting their loading order; 2) Set some programs to start up with Windows boot so as to improve work efficiency; 3) Some software still cannot start up with Windows by adding their shortcuts to the following folders or modifying the corresponding registry entries. This time, you can use Сhameleon Startup Manager to easily and quickly take care of everything.

• C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
• C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\

I ever tried to set the portable version of Snagit and several other portable programs to start up with Windows, but that failed all the time. Fortunately, I found Starter this tiny application that effectively solved my problem without having to manually add program shortcuts to the Startup folders or modify the registry keys. In addition to adding startup entries, you can also use it to edit and clean startups.

Registry is actually an important database in Windows system, used to store all kinds of settings information of system and applications. How to better optimize and set registry is very important for both performance and stability of Windows.

Autoruns is a very good system startups management tool, not only can manage the boot startups and services, but also can directly control the registry. In addition, Autoruns can directly use Google to make a internet search (right-click/Search Online...), directly control the different system logon users, and save the operation records to a file at any time.