There can be many number of reasons for the system to be slow and sluggish, and as the time goes by, the performance degrades even further. The sole cause for such a depreciation is chiefly because of the numerous software and the temporary garbage being accumulated. These mischievous applications, that we install, often modify the registry settings, system files and add themselves in the Windows startup-list. There are a few excellent tools to deal with these problems like Tune Up utilities and CCleaner.  Nevertheless solving the startup issue still remains a heck of a job for a basic PC users. Experienced users may play around with msconfig and do the needful but for the naives; well there is an excellent application to help them out of utter chaos.

Soluto is the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 and qoutes itself as Anti-Frustration software. In its present state it’s a startup optimizer with features like disabling a particular application from starting up on start-up, delaying the start of an application and thus decreasing the start-up time

This award winning application classifies startup processes in three categories - No-Brainer, Potentially Removable, Required. For each process running on the system, it provides a description and recommended course of action. It even explains why a particular application is required in the first place and points out the cost of running that particular application in the startup. If a particular application is required immediately after the boot, it may not be completely removed from the startup; using this application it can be delayed for the startup thus  saving precious after boot time.

Soluto has an ambitious plan. The idea of PC Gnome project is to figure out which processes, in general, are cause of frustration for PC users. Concept revolves around the fact that, most of the users are not power users and often are not able to figure out the cause of problems they face. The aim is to assist even the basic PC users to pin-point the cause of the ‘frustration’ and take the necessary action. PC Gnome collects data from the Soluto users. One needs to press ‘My PC just frustrated me’ link whenever a problem is encountered and the application will try to analyze the state of the system and report it, so that a future build may include the solution to the problem.

If Soluto indeed achieves the aimed goal, it would indeed be a must have killer app. Yet even in its present state it’s a must have for basic users.

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