Saving Programs/Apps to SD

[youngpro83]

Okay so I was installing EVERYTHING to my device. After all of my cabs were installed I had less than half the memory I started with. So I thought of something genius. Why not save programs to my sd card! lol. Anyways, here is my question. If I save programs to my SD card will they automatically be in my start programs AFTER a hard reset?? If not is there a way to transfer them over but still keep them on my sd card and not on my device? Or do I have to install each program again after I hard reset or flash another ROM??