I am a XP user and use a third party startup manager to load programs at startup. Works fine.
My brother asked me to look at why his Vista computer was slow at startup. ( the load progress bar cycles about 30 times at startup.) Is a third party manager able to manage the startup programs or does Vista have a built in manager?

What else should I check to speed up his startup?

Bill

click start then run , type msconfig and hit return , its all there under the startup tab , also under services there are more BUT make sure you check the hide all microsoft services tab first , and make sure you dont stop the antivirus/firewall etc

one more thing , make sure he hasnt disable the READYBOOST service , if he has tell him to turn it back on , it incorporates a sevice called READYBOOT , i assume you can work out what that does

Hope this helps

oh and btw get rid of your startup "management" software and do it yourself