Guide: Add/Remove Programs from Windows 10 Startup: Guide
Many programs or apps on Windows are activated up as soon as you boot up your Windows PC and start running in the background. The thing to note here is that startup apps can contribute to the slow startup speed of your PC so it’s important to manage them. In previous Windows versions – Vista and 7 – users had to use Msconfig to add or remove programs from Windows startup, but Microsoft made things a bit easier for Windows 8 and Windows 10. We have discussed how to here add and remove programs from Windows 8 and a similar process also applies to the management of startup programs for Windows 10. Also read: here is How to Disable Windows 10 updates.
How to Remove programs from Windows 10 startup?
If you want to disable a program / application during startup, all you have to do is start up the task manager – it’s that simple, plus a few more steps. You can easily start task manager by right-clicking on the taskbar and selecting Task manager.
Once started, click on ‘Startup’ in the tabs at the top of Task Manager.
Then select the app you don’t want to launch on startup, right click and select ‘Disable’.
That’s it, now the disabled app will not launch the next time the PC is started. You can enable the program later through Task Manager if needed with the same steps.
How to Add programs to Windows 10 startup?
Adding a program to the Windows 10 boot menu is a bit more complicated than just taking pictures up the task manager and enable / disable. You need to open the Startup folder in your Windows folder on the drive where Windows is installed. You can either try to get there through the explorer or here’s a faster way – just type ‘shell: startup’ in the ‘run’ box and it will fetch the startup folder for you.
The ‘shell’ command can be used to retrieve hidden or special Windows folders, as long as you know the name of the folder. In the ‘Startup’ folder, find the program you want to add to Windows 10 startup, then drag it to the ‘Startup’ folder.
You will either be asked if you want to create a shortcut or, as in our case, a shortcut will be created automatically as soon as you drop the selected app into the ‘Startup’ folder.
Now you can check if your program has been added from ‘Task Manager’ under the ‘Startup’ tab and enable / disable it from there. You can add so many apps to launch when you start your PC, but this can take a toll on the time it takes your computer to boot and hinder its performance while using it as a greater number of apps the system memory will share.
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