• heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    63·
    2 years ago

    For those that don’t know, theres a tab in Windows task manager called Startup that let’s you modify what apps get started when you log in.

    You can also look at the services.msc tool and check all your startup services.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
    332·
    2 years ago

    Everyone is making fun of the apps included in OP, but it’s besides the point—apps that demand resources at startup are the worst if you don’t need them. I ruthlessly deny permissions for anything installed, it’s like Gandalf in there holding the bridge and pushing presumptuous asshole apps over the bridge.

  • rdri@lemmy.world
    354·
    2 years ago

    Unironically you’re missing the point. The point being, it’s not a problem for many apps to start because oh how powerful PCs got. The problem is when some apps use so much resources that regardless of how powerful your PC gets, it’s wasteful to have them opened all the time.

    Reason for that problem is them using unoptimized frameworks such as Electron and CEF (seriously, check each app on the image).

    And main reasons for that are:

    • Google posing browser component as a GUI framework.

    • Devs not caring (or being lazy) enough to do native coding.

    I wish every person would realize the above so we could force developers do their job better.

    • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 years ago

      Ironically, even if OP missed the point, the apps pictured are resource hogs and all of them don’t need to run on starup other than Defender.

      Sure, leave OneDrive/Dropbox on if you use it. Leave Spotify if you just need your music to start blasting the second you reach the desktop. If opening Steam and waiting ~30 seconds for the lord Gaben-given daily update is too much of a problem let it do its thing on startup, but who in their right mind needs Soptify, OneNote and all the gaming clients slowing down startup of literally everything?

      And CCleaner, McAffee and Adobe can go fuck themselves along wirh Nestle.

      • rdri@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 years ago

        the apps pictured are resource hogs

        I mean I didn’t disagree with that.

        who in their right mind needs Soptify, OneNote and all the gaming clients slowing down startup of literally everything?

        I guess every user who doesn’t care enough to check the autorun settings as long as it works. Probably most non-IT specialists.

      • psud@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 years ago

        You’ve gotta let FrankTheHealer shout from the rooftops. He has windows to heal

    • el_abuelo@lemmy.ml
      34·
      2 years ago

      This is such an own goal it’s almost a meme at this point.

      You know why Linux doesn’t have this shit? Because it hasn’t attracted the ire of the marketing team. Do you know why that is? Because the fraction of target users using Linux is TINY. It’s not worth the expensive engineering effort, especially when you consider the demographic using Linux is unlikely to fall for this shit.

      The more you win the “use linux” argument, the more the argument won’t make sense. The day Linux gets enough user share to justify it, is the day all this shit starts happening on Linux.

      • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        Also it’s much easier to disable on Linux and not every distro uses the same program to start apps on boot so most annoying programmes can’t find it. Discord (which I would ideally move away from if my friends didn’t use it) certainly thinks it’s enabled on startup somehow.

        Windows seems to start some startup apps before you log in also worries me as that means malware could start before you are able to remove it and I don’t know how to reach tty mode before reaching a gui so yeah…

  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 years ago

    For those that have this issue,

    Disclaimer:

    misuse can seriously fuck up windows. Disabling things that shouldnt be, is bad. Many of the services are required by other aplications to run. Do not disable any Microsoft services you dont know what they do - otherwise disable as many as possible until the computer stops working.

    If you can not read or just want to uncheck everything you see, this is not for you:

    Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager “start up” section on 5 doeses of steroids. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

    • Twitches@lemm.ee
      9·
      2 years ago

      It is but you don’t want to recommend it to anybody who doesn’t know what they’re doing because they can seriously break their computer lol

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
      41·
      2 years ago

      Please disable all Microsoft services. Your PC and privacy will thank you… (Unless you decide to use something somehow even worse)

      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        There’s definiaty some you can and should be disable, but I’d use O&O for that. Unless you actually know what each service does, its best to leave them alone.

        • CptEnder@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          Ya know any services that can be disabled in general and how to safely turn them off and back on if something doesn’t work? I hate how Windows Services eats up so much of my really powerful computer.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    Only thing missing from this atrocious set of spyware is Valorant’s properiarty Vangaurd rootkit

    • Mac@mander.xyz
      4·
      2 years ago

      I have almost all apps disabled on startup.
      If i want it running i will start it, i assure you.

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
    216·
    2 years ago

    Discord doesn’t respect the Windows startup settings. That whole platform is a fucking cancer on the human race.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      212·
      2 years ago

      Yea it does. Bring up task manager and go to the startup tab. There will be an item there called git something-arather. Disable that item and discord doesn’t start with windows.

      • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
        168·
        2 years ago

        Oh, so they’re just insidiously hiding what you actually need to disable? You understand that’s worse, right?

          • magnusrufus@lemmy.world
            34·
            2 years ago

            If they were just being informative they wouldn’t have led with “yeah it does”. Or they would have phrased it differently.

        • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          2 years ago

          … I just disable it in their settings without issue.

          Reminds me of OneDrive hiding their don’t start with Windows option.

          It’s such a fetch thing to do now.

        • __ghost__@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 years ago

          I mean, there are a lot of other apps that put their start-up behavior here, too. And there’s a setting in Discord not to start at boot

          Largely I agree that their platform is cancer, but not because of their startup settings