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superboyac:
Wow, Steven.  I nominate you for poster of the month!  That is good info there.  Thanks.

Darwin:
Wow, Steven.  I nominate you for poster of the month!  That is good info there.  Thanks.
-superboyac (March 12, 2009, 10:21 AM)
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Yes - excellent post, Steven  :Thmbsup:

Steven Avery:
Hi Folks,

Welcome guys.  This is more an "overview" research thread .. the real work will be when someone takes the top five paid programs and a number of freewares and really does a neato review !  Overall, it is interesting what you find out about the topic and the software industry when you look at one utility closely. The good, the bad and the ugly and the elegant.

Good news from Chameleon.  They have a freebie version, hard to find on their website, yet downloadable here and there on the solid shareware and freeware sites.  So I wrote to them and got an excellent reply from Evgeni (also a good, quick separate reply on a minor technical issue).

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CHAMELEON STARTUP MANAGER - Neo-Soft
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Now available version 2.65:
http://www.neosoft-tools.com/files/cstartup_free.zip

Limitations of the free version are:
- Definition of only one task
- Launch delay option for just one program
- 'Save' feature for only three configurations
- Startup profile selection at Windows startup is unavailable

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None of these look like deal-breakers, all make sense as legit differences between a paid version and a free version (only three configuration is especially not a hindrance) .. thus Chameleon joins the free group (I am adding them above).

Since these programs are inexpensive (Evgeni does not mention support differences, we can ask him) I would still tend towards purchasing.  There is something really crisp about a straight purchase (with a DonationCoder or Bits Du Jour discount when possible) of an inexpensive and good utility software product.  And having the full, best product. Imho.

Although I have hesitations on Trialpay (discussed elsewhere) that can be mentioned here for this program as well.  (My hesitations on Trialpay are when they 'partner' with dubious software products, like in the "registry cleaning" world, causing me personally to hesitate to use them.  However many of their software partners are very solid, like Chameleon.)

Incidentally Snapfiles lists Neo-Soft as UK, while I think Ukraine is accurate.  Did the UK at the start confuse them ?

Oh, I removed a reference to Procleaner above (next to ccleaner and ncleaner) simply because I could not find real info about the software.  It has a MajorGeeks entry but no names attached or anything.  All entries above are meant to have 'personality' - to avoid possible adware and commecial-nonsense marketing-first products.  This one was a close call since it appeared to be freeware, however a product could exist mostly as a Google-marketing segue.  Real personality is necessary.

05/2009 - ProCleaner reference returns with additional ino.

Let me point out that I find Linkman (and formerly Powermarks) invaluable on a project like this.  Where I use my bookmarks as a PIM and go mostly straight from URLs to post.  By using "Startup" as a keyword I keep the info together, lots of little notes are in the "Name field" and I do a bit of clumping by alphabetizing.

Shalom,
Steven Avery

Curt:
Very fine job, Steven.  :up:  :up:
- and while you're at it: Give us more!   8)

Well-deserved donation sent your way.

evgeni:
Hi,

I am the developer of the Chameleon Startup Manager.

I wish to add, that version 3.0 beta 1 will be soon available.
Full support for Windows Vista x64 and Windows 7 beta 1.

Preliminary screenshots can be looked here:
http://www.chameleon-managers.com/screenshots/1.png
http://www.chameleon-managers.com/screenshots/2.png
http://www.chameleon-managers.com/screenshots/3.png
http://www.chameleon-managers.com/screenshots/4.png

P.S. I from Russia  8)

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