Copyright: (c) 1998 by Thomas Reimann


Introduction

Welcome to StartEd.

StartEd gives you direct control over programs activated

from the Windows95 registry whenever your machine is

rebooted. The key areas are Run and Run Services,

from which such products as schedulers, servers and

mouse add-ons are typically loaded. StartEd shows

you what's currently in those boot operations, with

the power to edit, delete or add to the entries.

You can use this tool to simply view what is being

loaded from the registry without having to change

any information.

WARNING:

Editing the registry is not for the novice user.

You should always backup your SYSTEM.DAT

and USER.DAT files [located in the windows dir]

before you do anything involving your registry.


Disclaimer Agreement

Users of StartEd must accept this disclaimer of warranty:

" StartEd is supplied as is.  The author disclaims all warranties,

expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties

of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes

no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result

from the use of StartEd. "

StartEd is Copyright (c) 1997-98 by Thomas Reimann

Permission to use, copy and distribute this software and its

documentation for non-commercial purpose is hereby granted,

provided that it is not modified.

StartEd is freeware.


Menus

To edit an entry double click the line in the list view.

File

  Rescan - Rescans the current section.

  Save - Saves the actual section to the registry.

  Exit  - Asks for saving changes and exits the program.

  Exit no save - Exits the program without save.

Edit

  Add  - Adds a new entry to the list view.

  Replace - Replaces the current selection with the data in the edit fields.

  Cut - Cuts the active line  to the buffer.

  Paste  - Pastes the buffer to the current position.

  Delete All - Deletes the whole section.

  Clear - Clears the edit fields.


run
Run Section

This system registry section is used to start

programs after the initial load process of windows.

The program entries located in this area are

executed after the Run Services section.


run services
Run Services Section

Some software prefer this section -  real time

decompressors or anti virus programs mostly.

Run Services is executed while the boot process.

The program entries located in this area are

executed before the Run section.


Contact the Author

StartEd was designed and written by Thomas Reimann.

Any feedback , bug reports , problems , constructive criticism email to:

Shark@Flix.de

Ultimatum Productions:

 http://ultimatum.home.pages.de

About the Author:

I'm living in Bavaria (one of the 15 states in germany), in the beautiful

city of Coburg (http://www.fh-coburg.de/coburg/bb/bb_uk.html) ,

studying electro technics at the local polytechnics (technical college).

When I started using computers I was about 7 years old. With 8 I got

my first computer - a Timex 2048 (48kb Ram, 8bit , 8colour-gfx), with 12

I've got a Commodore 64 and started programming in assembler.

After the purchase of  an Amiga 500 (1990) and an Amiga 1200 (1993).

I learned to code  in C, C++, 68k Assembler and E.

2 years after the bankruptcy of commodore (1996) I was forced to buy

a PC due to the lack of new amiga software, in the beginning of 1997 I

started to code on the PC. My computer interests among programming are:

demo scene (www.hornet.org), collecting mp3 files, solving hardware problems,

overtuning my system to the maximum (including overclocking of the cpu) and

gaming (strategic , role playing and some action games).

Beside StartEd there is other Freeware written by me:

Linkman - the ultimate Url Manager

Batchrun - program batchloader

Freemem - a physical memory display

Cacheman - win95 cache optimizer

GetInfo - a viewer for *.nfo files

GetDiz - a viewer for File_ID.diz files


what's new
New in 2.1

- drag & drop from explorer

- context menu

- paste from buffer

- updated documentation


Future of StartEd

There is a replacement project for StartEd.

I will handle more registry sections , the startup

folder and the win.ini file.

It will be released as Giftware in some weeks.


Context Menu

You get the context menu when you click the right

mouse button in the list view.

Cut to buffer - Cuts the active line  to the buffer.

Paste from buffer  - Pastes the buffer to the current position.