One of the larger questions facing the software industry is this: How can users trust code that is published on the Internet? Packaged software uses branding and trusted sales outlets to assure users of its integrity, but these are not available when code is transmitted on the Internet. Additionally, there is no guarantee that the code hasn’t been altered while being downloaded.

Therefore the idea of using certificates came up. Certificates provide a way to put a digital signature to software and in this way secure software from being altered and also ensuring it came from the original publisher.

Most certificates cost a lot of money, but certum.pl offers free code-signing certificates to non-commercial projects such as open source software. They also offer a free time-stamping service.

Also, read the msdn article on code-signing.

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If you have an idea for a new feature for Startup Manager, please submit it to the tracker on the project summary page.

You can submit feature requests right here and  report bugs over here.

The moment this website is completed you will find all these links on the website itself.

The new version 2.3 of Startup Manager – a program to manage the programs that start automatically – now adds support for translations. There also is a “check for update”-dialog now and there are brand new shiny toolbar icons!

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From now on we support translations. This means that by the time of the next release Startup Manager will be available in several languages including English, Italian and most likely also Dutch.

Feel like translating Startup Manager to another language yourself? Click read more…

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After more then one year we finally found some time to create the project website.

Not all pages are finished yet, but soon this website will be fully operational.

The design is created by Peter Naudus and adapted to fit WordPress by Kris Van den Bergh.