There are many benefits to using Startup Guru including....

Management:
You can easily and saftely manage your startup options. Use different profiles to start up different programs. You decide which applications should start up and which should not based on an assigned profile. You also can have Startup Guru automatically lauch a handled item or have it prompt you to decide on whether or not to start up the program.

Temporarily disabling:
Not sure what something is or if it is required by another program? Simply temporarily disable the item by moving it to the disabled list. Then if you find you need the program to start up the next time you can add it back to your profile.

Adware/Spyware Removal:
Easily find programs that are starting up when you boot that shouldn't be there. These programs drain resources!

Scheduling:
By default all programs that are started up by Windows itself are more or less started at the same time. In doing so your available system resources are gone in seconds. By scheduling your applications to startup, or at least spacing them out, your computer resources will not be swallowed up by all the programs at once. Giving each program some time to start will allow everything to flow smoothly.

Profiles:
By creating different profiles you can control how Windows will boot up the next time you restart your machine.

Location, location, location:
Several registry areas as well as Startup Folder areas are listed and programs can be added, edited and even removed as needed! Startup Guru inspects the Run, RunOnce and RunOnceEx areas for both Current User and Local Machine registry entries as well as the Startup folders on the hard drive for the Current User and All Users. Additionally the Run and Load sections of the System.ini and Win.ini files are examined. These files are checked for older programs as they are currently rarely used.