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There are at least three different locations for programs that start after Windows starts. AutoStartManager allows you to see them on one screen, and enable/disable them. This is useful for instance when you're travelling away from the office and you need to disable all these tools that make sense when you're connected to the company's network, but only slow down your computer when you're away.
It's also useful to find out if an application has added something to the startup group after being installed.

A useful complement to AutoStartManager is StartupMonitor. It monitors changes to the startup items and asks for confirmation.

Update

27/10/2002 : Version 1.3 : Support for the "services" keys on Win9x. This is for the RunServices and RunServicesOnce keys in HKLM and HKCU under Win9x. Thank you Randar for pointing these out. Unlike the Windows NT/2k/XP services, I allowed enable/disable of Win9x "services".

19/05/2002 : Version 1.2 : include display of services for NT/2000/XP. You can not change their status though. I think it'd open a can of worms with users who don't know what they are doing. If you want to enable/disable services, use the control panel. If you don't know what a service is, stay away from it altogether.

23/02/2002 : fixed a problem with deletion of disabled items.