Last week's Hive Five proves that you don't have to create something with the most bells, whistles, and options, you just have to get a functional product in front of people and they'll use it.
While CCleaner isn't the first tool most people think of when they think of managing the startup of their Windows machines, it's a popular tool for cleaning your computer in other ways and it happens to have a simple and easy to use tool for plucking programs out of your startup routine.
That's all you can do with CCleaner though, so if you're serious about managing your startup routine you're going to want to give a good look at the runners up in the Hive. Second place goes to MSConfig, built right into Windows since 1998 and steadily improving since then. Third place goes to Autoruns, which gives you an enormous amount of settings and configuration files related to the startup process. Trailing in fourth place, but still worth a mention for its awesome ability to delay—instead of simply enabling or disabling—programs at boot is Startup Delayer. Rounding out the Hive is Startup Control Panel which has been plugging along since long before MSConfig got its act together and became more functional.
Check out the full Hive for additional information on each of the contenders. Have a topic you'd love to see featured as a Hive Five? Send us an email at tips @ lifehacker.com with 'Hive Five' in the subject line.
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