README for Outer Technologies StartEd 4.03 for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
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Copyright (c) 1997-2001 by Outer Technologies.
All Rights Reserved. Other brands and their products are
trademarks of their respective holders.

Welcome
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StartEd is a tool which helps you to manage those pesky programs
which load from the Registry, Startup folders and Win.ini at
Windows Startup. If you need total and direct control over the
programs loaded during the booting processes, then StartEd is the
answer. It lets you modify and backup the Startup configuration,
detects more than 60 Trojan Horses and comes also handy for every
system administrator by managing user startup shortcuts.

Status
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Shareware $17

Differences between the trial and the registered version: 

StartEd works without limitation for 15 days. After this trial
period 2 features will be disabled - backup & disable items.
After purchase all features will become available again.
Additionally you will get all upcoming 4.x versions for free
(at least 3 releases are planned). 

Please read the help file for update information from StartEd 3.x

Distribution
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We allow the free distribution of StartEd, but we retain ownership
and copyright of StartEd and its source code in its entirety.
You may distribute StartEd only subject to the following conditions: 

You are allowed to distribute StartEd through the Internet, BBS's,
Shareware distribution libraries, CD-ROMs and Magazine Cover Media.
You may charge a distribution fee for the package, but you must not
represent in any way that you are selling StartEd itself. You have
to inform us before any distribution at distribution@outertech.com,
we will send you information about new StartEd releases. StartEd
may be bundled and distributed together with other software products. 

You may not modify the program or documentation files in any way.
You must include all the files that were in the original
distribution. You may not decouple or otherwise reduce StartEd
to a human perceivable form. You may not sell StartEd or charge
a distribution fee, except to recover the media costs. 

Installation
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To install StartEd run setup.exe.

Version History
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4.03

Detecion of following Trojan Horses added 
- Hard.A@mm 
- LXD.Mirc 
- Mari@mm 
- Netbus.444051 
- VBS.Count.A.int 
- VBS.Fiber.C 
- VBS.Phybre 
Better detection of environment vars 
Some bugs fixed 
Improved installer & uninstaller 

4.02

Detecion of following Trojan Horses added 
- Sircam Worm 
- Diag Config 
- DWorld.A 
- MXBot@mm 
- Hyd@mm 
- LoveLetter.BJ 
New Start Methods 
- Default User Run 
- Default User Run Once 
Win XP compatibility improved 

4.01 

Detecion of following Trojan Horses added 
- Gnuman.worm (aka Gnutella Worm)
- South Park
- Studio 54
Some minor bugs fixed 

4.0 

WinNT/Win 2k only:

New Start Methods: 
Current User Run Services 
Current User Run Services Once 
Default User Startup Folder 
User Startup Folders support for System Admins

All OS:

Greatly improved Trojan Horse detection, detects more
than 40 different Trojans in Startup configuration 
New Properties dialog 
Print preview 
Create shortcut on desktop 
Go to items folder 
Improved command line detection 
Better file exists status check 
French localization 
Html Help including context sensitive help 

3.85 

New launch functions added : launch all checked/unchecked files 
Big fonts problems fixed 
German version 

Contacting Outertech 
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email: support@outertech.com
web: http://www.outertech.com
