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Check your startup programs Article for: Everyone Difficulty:Easy Importance: Important Startup programs run whenever you log into your computer. They run in the background, consume resources and slow down your computer. I am not against startup programs. I run many myself. But, it makes sense to check them a couple times a year and see if you have stuff starting up that you don’t want starting up.
The simplest way for a novice to check their major startup programs is with Windows 10's built in Startup manager.
Checking for major startup programsClick the Start key then choose settings
Then from Settings Choose Apps. From Apps, choose Startup.
From there you'll find a list of startup programs along with a switch to turn them off and an estimate of their impact during startup.
Stopping unwanted programsYou can switch programs off from here, but that is not the best way to stop them.
Date: March 2020
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