Ron Schenone

Mike Lin's Starup Monitor and Control Panel Monitor – Review

Posted by on Feb 1, 2007 | 5 Comments

Mike Lin has two software programs that I have been using for several years, and that I recommend to both clients and friends for use on their computer systems.

The first is Startup Monitor. This software is a program that runs in the background and notifies the user when any program tries to register itself to start when Windows starts up. It is a simple way to stop those annoying types of programs that may try to install themselves without your knowledge. It is also a great way to warn you the user, if this occurs. The program itself is quite small [60kb] and uses minimal resources. Mike states that Startup Monitor works on all versions of Windows, but that he has not been tested on Vista as of yet.
Mike Lin’s Startup MonitorMike’s other program is Control Panel Monitor that adds a handy applet to Control Panel itself. With this program you can stop or start any program that runs at startup. It is a handy tool to diagnosis startup problems when things do not function properly. This tiny program [59kb] performs the function of the Msconfig used in the Run command. This program also runs with any version of Windows and Mike indicates it runs on Vista as well, from the reports he has received.

Control Panel Monitor

Both of these programs are very useful and I highly recommend them. And the best part is that both are Free.

[tags]startup monitor, control panel monitor, free, software [/tags]

  • Kyle Polansky

    Thanks for the post. I’m going to try it out in a VM.

  • Anonymous

    Still downloading, can’t wait to try it on my laptop. My Linux is being uncooperative as of current

  • Anonymous

    One thing is for sure MSFT has a massive developer network. I recently finished managing a development effort using .NET3.5 and WPF. The development timeline was fast and using an agile method allowed the team to get a product to market quickly. How quickly can the dev. community can adapt and migrate the massive base of programs already in production to apps that are cross platform capable? This will be very important because there is a lot of competition for market share right now and with PC manufacturers dumping hardware units it seems that MSFT stranglehold may finally slip in the years to come at the enterprise workstation level. More and more people want to be untethered from the legacy PC. Someone needs to make the PC platform sleek and sexy in order to compete with consumers and users that are tired of noisy fans, burning laps, clunky cases and flaky hardware drivers

  • http://twitter.com/glyakk glyakk

    I am actually quite excited about this, and I am not even a Windows user.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Simeon-Latham/1676263153 Simeon Latham

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