Replacements for PC Mag utiliities.

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John Corliss said:
Thanks Peter, but I had hoped we were first going to work on
determining which of the PC Magazine utilities were worth replacing.
Still, I'll note your recommendation and add it to a list.
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The latest version of Autoruns is a pretty good start-up manager,
it also manages Browser Helper Objects and shell Extensions.

So it could be an alternative to Startup cop and BHO cop too.


On XP systems it can optionally hide signed Microsoft
entries.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml

"This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor (A starting list of
auto-run locations was obtained from David Solomon's "Windows Internals" seminar), 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. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell
extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond
the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

Autoruns' "Hide Signed Microsoft Entries " option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to
your system. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.

You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically!

Autoruns works on all versions of Windows."
 
John said:
Susan Bugher wrote:
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Progressing in an orderly fashion will make it easier to compile a list
and to know when we're done. If we list only the ones we're interested
in, then the list will be shorter and the goal more defined.
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IMO "ACF progressing in an orderly fashion" is an oxymoron. ;)
Sorry, I'm just not into that "wiki" stuff. Discussing this kind of
topic is just what this group is for and frankly, I don't see the need
for a wiki on it.
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The OP asked for a web page. I'm suggesting discussion here and web
pages in the ACF wiki for the summary.

Susan
 
Susan said:
IMO "ACF progressing in an orderly fashion" is an oxymoron. ;)


The OP asked for a web page. I'm suggesting discussion here and web
pages in the ACF wiki for the summary.
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Susan, *I* am the OP for this thread and I never asked for any web page.
 
jo said:
John Corliss wrote:




Webwasher?
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How strange that I never thought of this. But it's true! WebWasher
does indeed have a built in Cookie filter. Thanks and noted.
 
Mel said:
The latest version of Autoruns is a pretty good start-up manager,
it also manages Browser Helper Objects and shell Extensions.

So it could be an alternative to Startup cop and BHO cop too.


On XP systems it can optionally hide signed Microsoft
entries.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml
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I had a look at it earlier. A really nice feature of Startup Cop (so the
literature says... I've never used it) is the ability to 'blacklist'
certain intrusive start up rubbish like QT or Real.
I don't see that Autoruns can do that.
And I didn't see how it allows one to toggle BHO's like BHO cop does.
 
jo said:
I had a look at it earlier. A really nice feature of Startup Cop (so the
literature says... I've never used it) is the ability to 'blacklist'
certain intrusive start up rubbish like QT or Real.
I don't see that Autoruns can do that.
And I didn't see how it allows one to toggle BHO's like BHO cop does.
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Autoruns doesn't have a blacklist option, but it does have the most
extensive list of possible startup vectors I can recall seeing in a
start-up manager (Apparently Startup Cop only covers the 7 most
commonly used).

I wasn't aware of Startup cop's blacklist feature, I tried SC a long
time ago, but didn't consider it worth keeping. Perhaps it's not a
complete replacement, but I think that what it does do, it does better.


To view BHO's select "show Explorer Add-Ons" the tick box
allows you to toggle programs, or you can choose to delete their
entry (or to search google for them etc.)
 
jo said:
John Corliss wrote:




Context Magic is a really nice right click menu enhancer:

http://www.contextmagic.com/?refid=cmmenuitem

I wonder how the two compare?
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Context Magic:

"Greatly extends functionality of the standard Send To menu and allows
to manage files and folders with a few mouse clicks."

CMenuExtender:

"A shell extension that lets the user add items to the Explorer
contextmenu. Using any registry-editor or the supplied GUI, the user
can add submenus and items such as shortcuts to programs, documents,
folders, webpages and scripts. CMExt also has some predefined commands
for copying, moving and retrieving information on files and directories."
Does CMenuExtender give one the freedom to easily remove context menu
junk like ContextEdit does?
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Don't believe it does, although it can delete entries it's created
easily enough. However, it's the best I could come up with. And it's
better for W95 users at least because it doesn't require that Internet
Explorer be installed (like ContextEdit).
 
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