Application Wizard - 2.4

Ok, I tried to reduce the startup time by creating a startup group and adding apps that were getting loaded during login. I am unable to add preference panes, daemons, etc to the group so I can lazy load them as I don't really need them the very second I login. But when I navigate to Library/PreferencePanes, all the items under it are grayed out whereas I need to navigate well deeper into say: LazyMouse Preference pane > Content > Resources > LazyMouse but I can't even get past Library/PreferencePanes because they are grayed out. Drag-n-drop items is not enabled either. So, although I was able to add a few items to my startup group, I am really confused if it is reducing the startup time and saving me any time or is it really worth it. What's the reason adding preferences panes, daemons, etc is disabled? Without this option, I don't think this application is replete with features... Are the developers going to add these features to it?

This is one of those apps that should be part of the OS. Discrete, unobtrusive, and a time saver.
I like to combine the pop-up menu feature mentioned by drtimothyjames with different Groups I create. So for example, I have an "Internet" group and I can launch and/or quit any or all of the applications in the group.
More recently I decided to clean up my login items and created a group for some those items. Now my startup time is faster, and if/when I want those other applications, they're just a shortcut and a click away. In addition, users can customize the behavior of individual applications.
Highly recommended.

Wow, the last review I see here is for version 1.4. This thing is up to version 2.1. I've been using this product for a long time, and it's been steady as a rock. It has numerous features worth investigating. I particularly like the ability to quit apps via a pop-up menu. I use AW in conjunction with Butler. I set a hotkey for the quit menu, configure the hotkey for my upper left screen corner, and now I can quit any running application at any time without even having to first switch to that application. That's only one of many nice features of this program.

This is a wonderful one of a kind utility. The two things I like:

1) You can instantly quit all applications at once.

2) With new update, you can hide all apps at once, and yet select to not hide certain apps -- this is brand new feature that the Apple's finder cannot do.

There are many more features, highly recommended.

Great support too.

which I can see appealing to OS9 users who aren't interested in learning new and better ways to do things. OSX is far easier to customize than OS9 or earlier classic Mac OS (I started with System 1.0/Finder 1.0) with *proven* utilities. This falls short of any real usefulness IMO. It either adds what the OS already has or has functions other utils do better. Everyone aware that VT and other sites have "top downloads" lists? There's always room for something new and useful. I don't see this as being one.