You can choose to Restart now or Restart later if you want. Once you have identified the programs you don’t want to start with the system, uncheck them then click Apply and OK. For a list of others, please check out the article, How to make your Windows 7 System Even Faster Some of the common ones I like to disable include, iTunes, Quicktime, WinAmp, Adobe Acrobat, Windows Live Family Safety. My recommendation includes avoiding your Antivirus utility, audio programs such as Kmaestro or Sound Blaster. You can see I have quite a few checked, some might be important, it’s up to you to carefully decide what you believe is not essential and what might be slowing down the system.

There you will see a list of checked that set to start and load with Windows. Hit Enter on your keyboard. This will open the Microsoft Configuration Utility

I am sorry if there are other similar topics and if you think that my question matches exactly, please link those threads. Some startup programs can even prevent other programs from installing or starting properly. Or maybe I should just remove the programs from C:Users(User-Name)AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsStartup. This can greatly affect the performance of your system and even cause some instability. Whenever you install programs they tend to add a program to your Startup folder, which allows the program to start immediately when Windows starts.

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