Free starting small software for windows

StartTime is a small tool that will enable you to see the uptime of Windows and when it was started.

Start-Up: Control your computers start-up. Freeware. An innovative start-up items editor, which allows you to identify, add,edit, remove or disable items using an intuitive graphical user interface.
Start-Up is a small standalone executable, so you can easily take it with you!
The embeded help file explains everything you ever wanted to know about your computers start-up.
Main features:
- Add/Edit/Disable/Remove start-up items from the easy to use user interface
- Detailed information about your start-up items
- Clean-up your start-up items to ease the stress on your PC
- Save a log of start-up items for future reference
- Comprehensive help system that explains everything you need to know about start-up items
- Easily portable - no installer needed
- Small file size and low memory-usage

A small tool which helps you adjust the look of your start bar. Start Bar Fader is a small tool which helps you adjust the look of your start bar. The user can set the transparency of his start bar on mouse enter and exit. He can also control the icon transparency and size.
Main features:
- Ability to set 2 transparency levels for the Start Bar and then fade between the two on mouse over
- Utilise up to 100 virtual desktops each with different resolutions and backgrounds (You can press "Start" and "Z" (like you do with "alt" + "tab") to switch quickly between different desktops)
- Make the desktop icons small and give them translucent backgrounds
- Wrap the mouse cursor to the opposite side of the screen when it hits the edge