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So many programs huh?

Don’t you find it annoying when starting your computer up when you have about 10 billion programs all fighting for existence at once. This really slows down your computer’s startup time. How many of those programs will you honestly need running when you’re using your computer any way? Some of the most notorious programs for doing this (Just off the top of my head) are:

* Nero
* iTunes
* Toshiba/Acer “Smart” tabs.
* Webcam applications
* Printer Applications.

Really, it is not important what the names of the programs are. Believe me when I say there are many more then that small list. What i’m trying to say here is why would any one that doesn’t burn CDs all the time require Nero to be started up above system startup? It’s just stupid and wastes alot of time and system resources.

Of course most of these “Start With Windows” options can be found somewhere in the options in the various programs. I often find it hard to dig through the options menu, with each application trying to make their software more “user friendly”.

Fortunately, there is a centralized place to do this to practically all programs that startup with windows.

This is not where all startup programs are launched from. There’s about 8 different places to launch programs on startup from, which will be explained in another post. For now, we’ll deal with the most common.

Read on to find out how to do this!

So you want to stop them…

Step 1:

Click Start and then click “Run“. type in “msconfig” into the text field.

Step 2:

You will see various options. I strongly suggest that you don’t change any of these, instead click on the Start Up tab. That will display a list of programs that are currently being launched when you start windows.

Step 2

All that you have to do here is untick the programs that you don’t want to start up when windows boots up. Click “OK” once you have made your selection.

Step 3:

Once you’ve closed everything down, you will more then likely be prompted with this dialog box:

Step 3

It is up to you wether you restart your computer then and there or not. I personally would just leave it and not worry about it any more!

Step 4:

If you got the message from step 3, then you will more then likely recieve this message after you have rebooted your computer:

Step 4

Make sure that you click the “Don’t show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts“, unless you want it to show up each time.

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