Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Absolute Startup absolutely won't ... https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/139 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Absolute Startup absolutely won't ... en-US Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:50:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.2 BillW50 on "Absolute Startup absolutely won't ..." https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/139#post-601 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:36:49 +0000 BillW50 601@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Works fine from Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines. Toasted my Windows 98SE Starup. But thanks to TK (73), SCANREG /RESTORE restored everything.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/absolute-startup-manager/

polski8 on "Absolute Startup absolutely won't ..." https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/139#post-599 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:47:06 +0000 polski8 599@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Don't install this piece of crap. Her is what happened to me:

I downloaded Absolute Startup from the giveaway of the day site, and installed it. I am running Windows 98SE. I created a system restore point first. Upon instalation, before it was even finished installing, it erased my startup group, deleted registry entries, disabled my virus protection, disabled my firewall, erased everything in my msconfig list, took entries out of my autoexec file, changed system.ini, disabled Norton Systemworks and spybot, and ereased my system restore point. Then, as soon as the installation was finished, it “performed an illegal action” and shut down my computer. When I brought it back up, I got several errors about missing dlls and missing exports. It took me over an hour to get my computer up again. I will NOT recommend this software to anyone. It is a piece of crap. And I still have more to fix.

barney on "Absolute Startup absolutely won't ..." https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/139#post-571 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:03:26 +0000 barney 571@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

... start up.
First, the program did not install properly - wouldn't register. That seemed to work on the 3rd install. However, when starting the program, a click anywhere but the title bar or system menu caused a lockup. For instance, if I'd go to the Options menu, the Options window would come up, but nothing was clickable and the cursor indicated a hard wait. Same thing happened if I clicked on an entry in the main program window - went into a hard wait. Program had to be killed. Tried one more install, but same problem. Don't really know if this is an install problem or a problem with the program itself, but in either case, I don't think it can be recommended as a viable application.