Comments on: Startup Manager 2.4.2 re-released

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:56:44 +0000

Hi Bill,

You are right in everything you mentioned. But you should know I’m a full time student and this is a project I work at in my spare time. The bad news is that the last year I barely had time to work on the project and my todo-list kept growing and growing. The plan is to get rid of the boot order tool and incorporate order/delay functionality in the main list. Maybe I’ll have more time from February on, but I’m affraid it will take another one and a half year…
And of course, any help would be appreciated.

-Glenn

By: bill

bill — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:46:29 +0000

I’ve just had another look at this, and admit I hadn’t noticed the startup sequencer. However, it seems to be a pain to set up, you have to enter each item individually, & it wouldn’t even let me cut&paste.
Would it be possible just to move ~all~ the start progs in there as a default setup, then we could work on the base list?
Aslo, I cumpleetly aggree wiv Mikeee Blake, above.
Your help section needs a tech-sub-editor to correct the goofs. And the errors, like where to find the start-sequence panel. And the omissions (start-order has a tick-box called /wait. Does that mean we just have to wait for an explanation?)
Sorry, but the help text just doesn’t give a professional impression in it’s current state.
(If you like, I can find time to do that for you, on a no-charge basis.)
=bill

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:51:01 +0000

Well, the way settings are handled is determined at compile time. That’s why there are two versions.

By: Lupo73

Lupo73 — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:42:04 +0000

Yes.. but what is the difference between the normal and the portable releases? Because you could think to make only one release, with both modes supported: you only have to add a checking at the application startup, that check if a ini setting file is included in the application folder and in this case use it instead of system dir and registry to store settings.
Anyway I hope to use this new release soon!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:15:13 +0000

Hi,

I can’t help you now because I don’t have a lot of spare time right now
But are you sure you are running Startup Manager with administrator privileges?

By: Lupo73

Lupo73 — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:10:33 +0000

Also another user report me that can’t run the portable version. No error messages, but the application doesn’t work at all. Why you can’t fix it now? Can I help you in some way to do it? This application seems to be very good and powerful and many users of portable software would like to use it.

ps: if the problem is that you can’t test it on a Vista system, I can make tests on my pc..

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:35:47 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the message. I’m sorry if the portable version is not working for you, but I can’t help you fix it right now.
Also you’ve got a good point about the way the portable version is distributed right now, an archive with all relevant files would indeed be better.

-Glenn

By: Lupo73

Lupo73 — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:42:24 +0000

Sorry for the late.. I have tried the portable version, but it doesn’t start on my pc (Vista OS). Also the ansi portable version doesn’t work. I saw the portable version is only one exe, why? You could consider to make also the portable version as a zip archive containing License.txt, st-m.chm, Startup Manager.url…

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:42:19 +0000

Hi,

There already is a portable version. Check the downloads section.

-Glenn

By: Lupo73

Lupo73 — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:58:40 +0000

Your is a very good software, can you consider to create a portable release of it? Or to make it able to support also a portable mode of use? Thank you very much!