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a free system array created by Apple inc. For BSD - including macOS as macOS is based on the Darwin kernel of BSD

A boot editor for the Windows 7/Vista bootloader. Takes the pain out of BCDEDIT.

Written in C++ and licensed under GNU GPL, XOSL (eXtended Operating System Loader) is a user-friendly, window-based graphical boot manager handling large disks and over 30 different operating systems.

Chaperone is a lightweight alternative to process environment managers like systemd or upstart. Chaperone provides an extensive feature set, including dependency-based startup, syslog logging, zombie harvesting, and job scheduling.

dracut (the tool) is used to create an initramfs image by copying tools and files from an installed system and combining it with the dracut framework, usually found in /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d.

If you are looking for Boot Time Monitoring and Analyzing, this is a great focused freeware program.

Anvi Startup Booster displays Boot Time and suggests Program, Service, and Network Settings to optimize computer performance.

The Windows 7 Boot Updater application was developed to be a small program that makes it easy to update the Windows 7 boot animation and text.

Dual-boot Repair will automatically fix boot environment of systems based on Windows 7, Windows 8 or Vista with Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7/8 as second operating system.

BootVis is a computer application that allows PC manufacturers to check how long a Windows XP machine takes to boot, and then to optimize the boot process, sometimes considerably reducing the time required.

e4rat ("Ext4 - Reducing Access Times") is a toolset to accelerate the boot process as well as application startups. Through physical file realloction e4rat eliminates both seek times and rotational delays. This leads to a high disk transfer rate.

Quickly boot into Windows.

Pendrivelinux is a website that provides simplified information to make it easy for anyone to install, boot, and run their favorite Linux Distro from a portable flash drive! Your Portable Linux operating system can then be taken with you, and run from any computer that can boot...

Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. It shows your boot behaviour including login as a PNG graphic and lets your analize possible bottlenecks. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot...

Stardock BootSkin is a program that allows users to change their Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista boot screens. Unlike other programs that can change the Windows XP boot screens, BootSkin does so in a safe manner. It doesn't patch the Windows XP kernel.

Many system developers complain about repetitive settings of their testing Windows workstations to make them usable for testing software. Number of dialogs you need to go through is bigger on Windows Vista or newer, where the necessary dialogs are often hidden one level deeper...

Faster is a very little init script aimed at Linux power-users and geek stuff oriented people. It is not industrial strength and does not comply with any other buzzwords. What it really does well is providing much better daemon handling (by means of a daemon manager e.g.

procd is a process and system init service for OpenWRT. It's less resource intensive as it's intended for embedded devices, works with busybox and uClib, hotplug2, libubox and ubus. It watches configuration files to start or restart services and init...

A Linux user-space application to modify the Intel Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager. This application can create and destroy boot entries, change the boot order, change the next running boot option, and more.

Boot Log XP is used to search for troubleshooting Windows boot-up problems in Windows XP.

The Mandos system allows computers to have encrypted root file systems and at the same time be capable of remote or unattended reboots. The computers run a small client program in the initial RAM disk environment which will communicate with a server over a network.

Creates an initial ramdisk environment for booting the Linux kernel. The initial ramdisk is in essence a very small environment (early userspace) which loads various kernel modules and sets up necessary things before handing over control to init.

Fast and secure initramfs generator.

MBR2GPT.EXE converts a disk from the Master Boot Record (MBR) to the GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition style without modifying or deleting data on the disk.

An program to easily go into the UEFI/BIOS in Windows by rebooting the system into UEFI/BIOS mode.