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.
Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager “start up” super charged.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
Disclainer, misuse can seriously fuck windows. Use with caution. Do not uncheck microsoft crap, no matter how tempting, or anything you’re unsure about.
+1 for autoruns
Thanks(!!!) for the reminder. I knew about it but just never think to go in there. I just now disabled a ton of things I don’t need running.
People install McAfee, Epic and CCleaner?
Epic is nice for free shit and drm free games.
Still not an enough reason to install that Tencent spyware imo.
When I was on Windows that shit failed to connect to the Internet half of the time anyway. Biggest reason I preferred steam out of the two.
Until the launcher wanted to add kernel level “anti cheat”. Then Lemmy told me about Heroic… :-D
Yeah, I use Heroic Launcher just because I’m a Linux user. Anything native is always better than running it in wine, nothing against wine.
Is Heroic not using wine? I thought it’s similar to lutris.
It is but only for the games. If you ran epic games launcher on Linux it would have to be on wine because there’s no native app from epic.
Epic
You meant EA Origin?
Epic is used by devs
People playing use Heroic
Ew, uninstall most of that
right, a lot of it is malware
Laughs in KDE
Laughs in tty
Laughs in windows.
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.
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:
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Google posing browser component as a GUI framework.
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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.
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.
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.
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USE LINUX
Jesus fuck…
Lol it’s everywhere here
For good reason, made the switch around the same time joining lemmy and haven’t looked back.
prep a live usb and try a few different window managers on whatever distro you align with, (hearing lime is easiest for beginners) youl know when you arrived home.
For me that was here
That was not even the longest winded “I use Arch btw.”
If you hate learning useful life skills, don’t use Linux! I use Arch BTW. 😉
Yeah I also switched because of here and longtime frustration with windows.
Nice dots!
c’mon man knock it off
signed, a fellow linux user
You’ve gotta let FrankTheHealer shout from the rooftops. He has windows to heal
WE HEARD YOU.
Nope
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.
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…
They hated him because he spoke the truth
How about no
Gnutard
He didn’t even /anything with his Linux. I think that charge is incorrect
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
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
My bad, I normally leave a disclamier, but I forgot.
Please disable all Microsoft services. Your PC and privacy will thank you… (Unless you decide to use something somehow even worse)
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.
The only Microsoft service I have is vscode and that’s open source… You don’t need any Microsoft services.
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.
Only thing missing from this atrocious set of spyware is Valorant’s properiarty Vangaurd rootkit
Fuck riot. Don’t play their trash
Y’all know about changing your startup programs right?
I have almost all apps disabled on startup.
If i want it running i will start it, i assure you.
The joy of Windows.
Discord doesn’t respect the Windows startup settings. That whole platform is a fucking cancer on the human race.
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.
Oh, so they’re just insidiously hiding what you actually need to disable? You understand that’s worse, right?
You understand
They’re being informative, calm down 😂
If they were just being informative they wouldn’t have led with “yeah it does”. Or they would have phrased it differently.
discord shows up as just discord in the start up menu for me
… 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.
Give Revolt a shot
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
