Overview

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Start-Q may be short for "Start Quick" or "Startup Queue". Both are true since Start-Q helps you to speed up your windows login process, and to do so it provides you a queue for your startup applications. With the queue, they don't compete for resources upon launching. This would make the launch process smoother and the overall login process becoming much faster. So you get control of your system sooner.

With Start-Q you also have full control of how your startup application launched. You can specify the priority of the launched application, make sure one is finished before launched the next, and much more!

Start-Q software package comes with 3 programs. One is acting as Windows Startup Manager and also for configuring the startup queue content and the other two is the one act as the queue, one is invisible during the whole operation and has no interactive capability while the other provides GUI and interactive functionalities.

Main purpose of Start-Q is to speed up user's login process by making sure the startup applications launching in orderly manner so they don't have to compete for resources.

Features

• Delaying startup application launching
• Ordering the launching of startup applications
• Ability to specify the priority (the higher the priority, the more cpu time it gets) of the startup applications
• Comply with good security practice. Only administrators can change startup items for whole machine. Ordinary users can only change their own startup items.
  Machine wide startup items queued in Start-Q (defined by an administrator) will always run no matter who the current user is.
• Backup and restore startup items. Including startup items not queued in Start-Q.
• Wait for specified startup items to be finished before launching the next ones.
• Ability to mark specific startup items as unskipable to make sure it always be launched.
• Ability to set the size of main window of the queued applications. Invaluable to avoid distractions from with splash screens. Note this one is not guaranteed to work for all applications, because many use custom implementation when launching their windows/forms.
• Fully supports Windows 64bit versions

Requirements

• Windows 95/NT 4/2000/XP/Vista/7
• 4 megabytes of free hard drive space for installation