Startup Maximizer

Posted by Lisa Blanc on June 10, 2016

What is Startup Maximizer?

Startup Maximizer is a piece of software that claims to be a beneficial PC optimizer. If you open its official website solidtechies.com, you will immediately notice that it promises to act in a very useful way. It is said there that it will boost the speed of your computer, remove undesirable software, eliminate advertisements from your screen, and clean the system registry. Even though this program seems to be very beneficial, specialists working at anti-spyware-101.com have found that it is not as perfect as it might seem to be at first sight. In fact, researchers say that they have to put this piece of software into the category of potentially unwanted programs. Of course, there are several reasons why they classify this program as a PUP. We will tell you more about this software further in this article. We are sure that we will also help you to decide whether or not to keep it installed, so read the article carefully and then take action. test test test

What does Startup Maximizer do?

It has been noticed that Startup Maximizer scans the system like other similar PC optimizers and provides the scan results. The majority of users say that the tool finds hundreds of errors on their computers, which is quite suspicious for researchers at anti-spyware-101.com. In order to find out whether the scan results can be trusted, specialists have conducted research and found that Startup Maximizer mainly detects empty registry entries, which, in fact, are not dangerous. In addition, it has been noticed that it might want to remove shortcuts of users’ favorite programs because it recognizes them as “invalid”. Needless to say, it is quite risky to trust the scan results provided by Startup Maximizer. It seems that this program does not show fully reliable scan results, so you should not upgrade it either. Yes, you will have to buy the license of this PC optimizer if you decide to use it to fix those detected PC problems. To be honest, we do not think that it is the best decision to invest money in this software even though its license is not very expensive (one year license costs $29.95) because we are sure that much more reliable optimizers exist.

According to our specialists, this product of Solid Tech has its official website, but it might also enter systems without permission. To be honest, the majority of users do not download Startup Maximizer willingly; however, they quickly notice that they have this software installed on their computers because it carries out important modifications, for example, it modifies the system registry by adding three new registry keys: [HKCU|HKLM]SOFTWARE\Startup Maximizer, [HKCU|HKLM]SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Startup Maximizer, and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Startup Maximizer_is1. Also, it puts its folder in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%, and %APPDATA% directories. Finally, it creates the new task in the Task Scheduler to be able to start at particular times and perform various activities. If you want to see all these changes gone, you need to eliminate Startup Maximizer from your computer.

Where does Startup Maximizer come from?

As you already know, Startup Maximizer can be easily downloaded from its official website solidtechies.com. On top of that, it often travels together with free applications in software bundles. It does not matter where you got this software from because only a free trial of this program, which you will have to upgrade yourself, is promoted. Potentially unwanted programs are quite prevalent these days, so you should be more careful from now on. Also, we suggest that you download software from websites that are 100% trustworthy and install an automatic security tool on your computer. We especially recommend doing that for those users who download many free applications and surf the web daily.

How to delete Startup Maximizer

It is not hard to remove potentially unwanted programs because they usually have uninstallers. In the case of Startup Maximizer, this program can be eliminated from the system through Control Panel as well. Unfortunately, the program will not be removed fully. It means that you will also have to eliminate its folder separately from %PROGRAMFILES(x86)% (or %PROGRAMFILES%). If you do not have time for this or simply want to eliminate this PUP quicker, you should scan your PC with SpyHunter. This antimalware suite will make your system perfectly clean within seconds. Click on the Download button you will find below to download it.