Top 15 Winpatrol Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Winpatrol provides a multitude of functions including startup control. It is a useful addition to any armoury to maintain computer as best as possible. Oh and a cute scotty icon for your toolbar!

1. Autoruns

Autoruns Autoruns shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. A "show non-Microsoft only" option helps you to zoom in on......

2. My Startup Delayer

My Startup Delayer Improve the loading time of Windows by delaying the startup of programs!Every time you start Windows a lot of programs starts automatically making Windows really unresponsive for minutes.This is noticeable especially on slow PC (like netbooks / nettop with Atom CPU / old pc).With My Startup Delayer you can choose......

3. LaunchLater

LaunchLater LaunchLater allows you to defer the launch of applications that run at Windows login. This lets Windows focus on booting itself first, then subsequently running a list of configured startup apps using a schedule that you control. Sometimes, procrastination really does pay off! LaunchLater is written with C# 4.0, using......

4. Uranium Backup

Uranium Backup Uranium Backup is an Italian backup program & program-launcher for Windows environments in 12 languages. Like Cobian Backup it can backup not only complete folders but also a list of selectable single files, and it is nearly portable, see the review. VSS function available (for 150€ in Version "Pro......

5. DelayedLauncher

DelayedLauncher Allows you to delay launching of login items on your Mac. If you have a lot of login items (and don't have a Solid State Drive), this can make your computer usable as soon as you log in, with only one login item loading at a time in the background.......

6. Oolauncher

Oolauncher Oolauncher is an application launching management. It gets auto-start applications from registry and start folders and starts them one by one.It offers much more options than windows to launch an application, like order, priority, window show style and etc.By adjusting the starting order and launching style, it can save much......

7. Free Alarm Clock

Free Alarm Clock Free Alarm Clock, free version of Hot Alarm Clock, is a portable and full-featured and user-friendly computer alarm clock and program-launcher for Windows in 23 languages.This program allows you to set as many alarms as you want with a sound, pop-up-text or starting an executable-file. You can set one-time alarms......

8. LaunchMeNot

LaunchMeNot LaunchMeNot is an application launcher which can automatically launch your favorite applications on startup and give you the option to cancel. It can juggle applications normally managed using Windows from one location.Ever needed to reboot after an unexpected crash at the most inconvenient time, then wait for multiple applications to......

9. Start-Q

Start-Q Start-Q is a freeware that allows delayed launch of startup items to start applications in a more orderly fashion.It lets windows users create a Queue for your startup applications. Order of the application launch can also be prioritized This ordering makes users gain control of the system much faster, and......

10. Disable Startup

Disable Startup Disable Startup is a free startup manager and monitoring program, it can scan all Windows Startups on your computer, and monitor all new startup items, helps you control, manage and optimize Windows Startup configuration. It can work with fine Windows XP and Vista, is one protecting tool for Windows Startup......

11. Quick Startup

Quick Startup When you turn on your computer certain applications, drivers, and services are automatically started at the beginning of each Windows session. The information that tells Windows to automatically start these items can be located in a number of places, ranging from a program group on your Start Menu, to certain......

12. vtop

vtop vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.Command-line tools like “top” make it difficult to see CPU usage across multi-process applications (like Apache and Chrome), spikes over time, and memory usage.That’s why we created vtop.......

13. HijackThis

HijackThis HijackThis™ is a free utility which quickly scans your Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware or other unwanted programs. HijackThis creates a report, or log file, with the results of the scan.......

14. Startup Delayer

Startup Delayer Startup Delayer gives you the power to optimize your Startup Process by delaying applications from starting up as soon as you log into your computer.By delaying the applications during start up, your computer becomes usable a lot faster. Startup Delayer will then start launching your delayed applications when your computer......

15. Autorun Manager

Autorun Manager "OSAM" (Online Solutions Autorun Manager) is a powerful and reliable tool for controlling the ‘cleanliness’ of components and applications that are automatically loaded or started under certain conditions without user’s consent."OSAM" provides an easy one-click way of obtaining detailed information about the components that are run automatically at the system......