How to disable startup programs m starting with the operating system? Hello admin! Two months ago I installed two operating systems, Windows 7 and Windows 8, and now they both slow down and freeze, and take forever to load.
In Windows 7, I launched the built-in msconfig utility, went to the “Startup” item and disabled everything there: Skype (a program for communicating over the Internet), Download Master (a file downloader), DAEMON Tools Lite (working with ISO images), Zune Launcher (a program for phone) and so on, by the way, I found one virus. Two weeks later I looked at startup, and some programs were there again. Do you know why this is so? I worked with all these programs for two weeks and upon startup they again installed their services in startup. What to do? My computer is powerful and can handle it, but it’s still a shame, a month ago Windows loaded in 15 seconds, but now it takes 40 seconds.
. The situation with it is better, after two weeks only a few programs returned to autoload without permission, but the programs that I reinstalled all quietly went into autoload.
Following your advice, I installed the AnVir Task Manager program, launched it, the program is good and does not allow anything to autoload and warns about everything, but what’s interesting is that I found the All Records tab in this program, and was stunned, there are 500 records there, and that’s all I have in startup! Andrey.
How to disable startup programs
Hello friends, it’s quite easy to disable startup of any program; you can do this using the “msconfig” utility in Windows 7 and the Task Manager in Windows 8. In addition, you can go into the settings of any program and uncheck the “Run when Windows starts” option. .
Another thing is a little more difficult - to prevent a certain program from being installed into startup on your computer, and this cannot be done without one good free program.
The whole secret is that most programs, when installed on your computer, will not ask your permission to go into startup, it will just go through and that’s it, and you won’t even know about it.
Today I will tell you two interesting stories, and at the same time we will find out how to disable startup programs in the Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems and how to prevent the program from starting up again.
If you have reinstalled the operating system and are actively using it - installing various programs, drivers (printer, scanner, camera...), antiviruses, and so on, then literally after a month there are so many of these programs that loading Windows is very slow. And the most important thing is that users simply don’t know (and most don’t care) where to find all these programs that slow down the loading of the operating system; they only realize it after Windows starts loading and working very slowly.
In Windows 7, you can disable startup programs using the msconfig utility built into the operating system.
Start, Run, msconfig,
In Windows 8, you can disable a program from startup directly in the Task Manager in a special Startup tab. For example, remove the Skype program from startup, call the Task Manager,
In my opinion, the most important mistake of users is that they control the startup of programs only using the tools built into Windows, which cannot show all the programs that are in startup, and even more so cannot stop the services of programs included in startup. When users install the AnVir Task Manager program, specially created to control startup, and see everything that is actually going on in their startup, they remain in shock for a long time after that, watching numerous unnecessary services and processes, sometimes even remote programs.
To emphasize the seriousness of the situation, I want to tell you this. Working for several years on the Windows 7 operating system, which had a licensed antivirus with the latest updates installed, a firewall and the AnVir Task Manager program (a program that monitors startup, which will be discussed later), I found myself in this situation about once a week. Working on the Internet, I often had to go to unfamiliar sites (like all of you), sometimes in search of drivers, and sometimes for necessary information. So, during the day I was browsing a lot of sites and being on some web pages, harmless at first glance, the AnVir Task Manager program installed on me (which controls startup) quite often signaled me with this window:
saying that an unfamiliar program is rushing into my startup, and this is with complete silence and connivance. Such programs, my friends, are nothing more than a complete virus.
I foresee your question, what will happen if you don’t have the AnVir Task Manager program and the program quietly goes into startup? And it will be approximately what I described in my articles “” and “”. This is how we catch viruses with you.
True, with the advent of the Windows 8 operating system, the situation has become a little better; all programs that are in startup can already be seen more clearly in the Task Manager in the Startup tab. The system, according to Microsoft, is better protected and so on. Although a small problem remains. All programs, when installed, still quietly go into startup.
I’ll tell you another interesting case, in which I’ll tell you in detail how to disable startup programs.
One of my classmates asked me to reinstall his operating system and install a package of free programs. Three months ago, he purchased a laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed. His entire family used this laptop, even without each family member. And now the laptop freezes, takes a long time to load and slows down. My friend agreed to my proposal not to reinstall the system, but to figure out the reason for the long loading time of the system.
To see all the programs that are in the startup of the new Windows 8 operating system, launch the Task Manager and select the Startup item. Friends, we look carefully at everything that is in my friend’s autoload, as we see what is not there. Please note that he even has two antiviruses installed
And this despite the fact that the Windows 8 system also has a built-in one, which can also work. Of course, in this case the computer will not boot in 4 seconds. My friend claims that he installed the second antivirus just for fun and then deleted it. But the facts indicate the opposite, the antivirus program works, we remove the second antivirus program correctly, through the “Install or change a program” panel
A more interesting picture of startup will open if we install the AnVir Task Manager program, official website http://www.anvir.net/. If after reading our article you want to download and install this program, then be sure to read our article, it contains a more detailed description of working with the utility.
Note: if you open the “All entries” item, then all files, drivers, services, registry keys will open, that is, quite redundant information for a novice user, but in fact you can figure it out (for example, I have about four hundred in startup all sorts of codecs and filters for working with video).
1) Drivers for C-Media sound card. It’s quite strange how they got here, because the built-in sound card on my friend’s Realtek computer, we disable the C-Media drivers from startup or remove them altogether.
2) DAEMON Tools Lite is a good program for creating disk images and emulating virtual CD/DVD drives. They use it once a week, so it is not needed in autoload either.
3) The Download Master program is needed to download files, but the owner of the computer does not even know about it and has never used it, disable the program from startup, if necessary, launch it manually.
4) Skype (a program for communicating via the Internet), if you don’t use it all the time, uncheck it.
5) The process ZuneLauncher.exe belongs to the Zune program from Microsoft. Using this program, you can exchange files and synchronize music, images, video files on your computer and phone running Windows Phone. The strangest thing is that my friend has a Samsung phone based on Android, and so does his wife and child, which means he doesn’t need the Zune program at all. Disable the program from startup or, better yet, delete it.
In “Services” at the very top there are two services related to the HP laser printer; we will not touch these services. The TeamViewer 8 service, which belongs to the very good remote access program TeamViewer, is also available here in startup (for those interested, read the article). But unfortunately, my friend doesn’t remember exactly who installed it and why. We remove it from startup, if necessary, you can start it like that, disable it from startup.
That's basically it.
We reboot the computer and after the reboot our Windows 8 literally came to life. In my opinion, all the problems were caused by the second antivirus program.
But what do we see, all our programs removed from startup ask to go there again, we kick them out through the door, and they climb out the window, what a misfortune.
Check the box Don't ask again about this startup item and click Delete. If you want, send the program to quarantine.
If you want to return the desired program to startup, you can do this in the settings of the AnVir Task Manager program.
In this way, with the help of this program you will instantly bring order to your startup.
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Startup in Windows 7 (Windows 10) allows you to manage the list of programs that start with the operating system. Removing programs from startup is done in order to optimize the operation of the OS. Adding applications avoids the need to manually launch them after Windows starts. In this article we’ll talk about how to go into Windows 7/10 startup and add programs to it.
Let us immediately note that some programs can be included in startup directly from the interface of the programs themselves. For example, applications such as Skype, uTorrent, PuntoSwitcher and others have a parameter in their settings, after activation of which the program will start automatically when you turn on the computer. But what if there is no such parameter in the settings?
The fastest and easiest way to launch a program when you log in is to copy the program shortcut to the Windows 7/10 system startup folder. It is located at:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
To quickly open this folder, follow these steps:
- Go to the Start menu and click Run (or use the keyboard shortcut Win+R);
- Enter the command in the “Open” line shell:startup and click OK.
Create a shortcut for the program you want to include in startup. Once it is placed in the Startup folder, the program will launch automatically when Windows boots.
Other ways to add a program to Windows startup
Another way to add a program to startup is to make changes to the Windows registry. Open Registry Editor. To do this, go to the Start menu and click Run. Write in the line “Open” regedit and click OK.
In the registry editor, open the following branch:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
On the right will be settings for programs that automatically start with Windows. To add a program, you must create a new string parameter. Give it any name, you can use the name of the program. In the Value line, enter the full path to the program's executable file (usually EXE), for example:
C:\Program Files (x86)\AIMP2\AIMP2.exe
It is convenient to find out and copy the path to the executable file of the program from the shortcut of this program. Having opened the shortcut properties, the Object line contains the full path to the file. After the parameter has been created, the specified program will appear in the startup of Windows 7 (Windows 10).
If you want some program to run for all users, then a string parameter in the registry must also be created in the following branch:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
The third way to launch programs when you log into Windows is to use the Task Scheduler. Open Control Panel and in the Administrative Tools section, launch the Task Scheduler shortcut. Now go to the “Action” menu and select “Create task”.
Give the task a name, for example, AIMP autorun, you can add a description, specify the users for whom the specified task will be performed.
Now switch to the “Triggers” tab and click on the “Create” button. At the top, from the Start task drop-down list, select At login. Make sure that the “Enabled” checkbox is checked at the bottom of the window. Click OK.
Go to the Actions tab and click the Create button. Specify “Run program” as the action. Now click on the “Browse” button and select a program to launch.
Close the window by clicking OK and click OK again to complete creating the task. Now when you log in, the program will automatically launch.
Each of the presented methods is quite suitable for adding any application and not only applications to Windows startup. To control programs and scheduled tasks, you can use both standard tools (or Task Manager for Windows 10) and third-party utilities such as Autoruns, CCleaner and others. With their help, you can remove, enable and disable programs from startup, and also perform many other useful actions to optimize Windows.
Hello! Friends, do you know what I do on almost every computer that comes into my possession? That's right, I'm cleaning the list of startup programs. When I turn on someone else's computer, about 80% of the time I want to cry :). I simply cannot observe the process when, along with turning on the computer, another 20 programs are launched, and the computer seems to have already turned on, but you need to wait a few more minutes until you can open the folder, etc.
As you already understand, I will write about how to remove programs from startup, and thereby speed up the computer boot many times. In the article, I also wrote about startup programs, and how to clear the startup list. But there I wrote how to do this using the Total Commander program, also with additional utilities, and probably only I have this version of Total Commander :), it’s already old.
I remember I was still uneducated in computer science, and my computer broke down, Windows crashed, I don’t remember exactly. And I took my system unit to a friend for repairs. He did everything for me, for only 20 UAH. and then installed this Total Commander (by the way, I installed it on autostart, I suffered for a long time before I removed it from there :)) and since then I have been using it, although I only use it to clean the system, it has a good utility. Okay, enough memories :), on to the point.
So in this article I will write about how to remove programs from startup using a standard utility in Windows. There are many programs for this, but I understand that you don’t always want to download and install some additional programs, and then also understand them. Moreover, if it is possible to do everything as a built-in tool.
Why clear the list of programs in startup?
Let's first figure out where they come from. It's very simple, you install different programs, some you install yourself, and some are installed without your help. Some programs are added to the startup list, and when you turn on the computer, they start themselves. Sometimes it is convenient, and even necessary. It’s good when, for example, Skype, antivirus, etc. start automatically.
There are programs that run automatically, but you don’t need them at all, or you need them very rarely. For example, DAEMON Tools Lite, an excellent program, but for example, I need it once a month, and I can run it myself. But here it starts all the time when you turn on the computer. Okay, as soon as it starts, it also works all the time and eats up RAM. What if there are ten or more such useless programs? This all greatly affects the speed at which the computer turns on and its operation.
I think you already understand where programs in startup come from and why they start themselves when you turn on the computer. In short, autorun is a list of programs that should start when you turn on the computer.
Why they need to be removed from there, I think you already understand. All this is done in order to increase the boot speed of the computer and increase the speed of its operation. After all, all these programs that are always running, of course, slow down the computer, and sometimes they also secretly use the Internet connection, I wrote about this case in the article.
So, let’s clean the startup list and your computer will start breathing in a new way! Of course, I have disabled unnecessary programs from startup, but I still check them from time to time. It happens that garbage appears on this list again.
How to remove programs that start when you turn on your computer?
As I promised, we will use the standard tool.
On Windows 7:"Start" "All programs", “Standard”, look for and run the “Run” utility.
On Windows XP:“Start”, “Run”.
In the window that appears, enter the command msconfig and click “Ok”.
A window will open in which we go to the tab. We look at the list and remove all programs that you do not need to autoload.
Be careful!
Do not uncheck programs that you do not know. If you want, you can type the name of the program from the list in a search, for example in Google, and see what kind of program it is. After checking, you can decide whether to disable it or not.
As you can see, my startup list is very modest. After you remove everything unnecessary (uncheck the boxes), click “Apply” and “OK”.
It happens that unnecessary programs may still be among the services. Therefore, in the window that we opened above, go to the “Services” tab. Immediately check the box next to “Do not display Microsoft services”. And uncheck unnecessary services. To save the result, click “Apply” and “Ok”.
A message will appear, you can exit without rebooting, or restart your computer.
If you have disabled a decent number of programs and services, then after a reboot you will see how much faster your computer will turn on and work. I hope that my advice will be useful to you and that you will use it, since it has a very good effect. Good luck!
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How to remove programs from startup (autorun)? Speed up your computer boot updated: February 7, 2018 by: admin
Some programs, immediately after installation, are automatically added to the list of those that are loaded along with the operating system. In some situations this is convenient when it comes to: Anti-virus software; Office utilities; Messengers.
However, software developers often add to the file distribution an attribute for adding the utility to autorun, when most users do not need it there. And therefore, you need to know where startup programs are located in Windows 7, how to view it and disable it.
Download folder
The easiest way for average users of modern PCs running Windows 7 to understand how to autostart programs is the startup folder. And we will talk about what it is, as well as where it is located, below.
The folder for launching programs along with loading the Windows 7 operating system is a regular directory, like those that any user can create using the Explorer context menu. However, its distinguishing feature from other directories is its location. By storing the folder in the Windows 7 system partition, any shortcut and file located in it will automatically launch along with Windows.
That is, if you want, for example, a music player, a web browser or some other software to load along with the operating system, you just need to copy the program shortcut to the startup folder.
As for where the startup folder is located in Windows 7, you can find it by following the following directories:
- My computer.
- System drive (often drive C:/).
- Folder "Users" or "Users".
- Folder of the current PC user. For example: Administrator, User, Alexander, etc.
- "AppData" folder.
- Directory "Roaming".
- Microsoft Catalog.
- Windows folder.
- Directory "Main Menu" or "Start Menu".
- "Programs" folder.
By placing the files you are interested in in this directory, they are guaranteed to automatically launch along with the operating system. If you are interested in where to disable autorun of programs in Windows 7, then by deleting software shortcuts from this directory, they will no longer load with the system.
Those users who encounter a problem with displaying the “AppData” folder need to enable the display of hidden folders in the “Folder Options” menu, since this directory is a system one and is hidden by default.
Where to find system startup programs in Windows 7
In addition to the completely obvious way to find autorun programs on the “Seven” - use a folder, there is also a system function responsible for automatic loading. And if we are talking about more serious programs than any players and media centers, then they often “settle” in the system autorun.
Of course, for some software this is convenient, for some it is necessary, but some programs are completely pointlessly included in the system autorun list, so you need to figure out where to disable the autorun of such programs in Windows 7.
System autorun programs are located in the “System Configuration” menu of Windows 7. You can get into it as follows:
After making changes and restarting the computer, the disabled programs will no longer load with the operating system.
Having a program automatically start when you boot your computer is a handy feature, and it's worth using if you have a basic set of applications that you always keep open. Some programs have their own settings in which you can set them to launch automatically every time you start Windows; others do not have such functionality, but the operating system allows you to do this. In this article, we will look at how to disable auto-loading of programs using Windows and, if necessary, enable automatic launch of individual applications.
Starting with Windows 7, the standard “Task Manager” of the operating system has a lot of useful functions and serves not only to terminate frozen programs and diagnose the load on computer components. In particular, the “Startup” item has appeared in the “Task Manager”, which displays all programs that automatically start when Windows boots. To get to this point, call the task manager by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+Del keys and select the “Startup” tab at the top of the window that opens.
To disable startup of an application in Windows through the “Task Manager”, you need to right-click on a specific program in the list and select “Disable”. 
Please note that the Task Manager also displays the impact of a specific application on the startup speed of the operating system. Through the "Task Manager" you cannot add new programs to automatic loading when the computer starts.
How to enable or disable autorun of programs through the registry
The registry allows you to access almost any function of the operating system. In particular, through it you can configure a list of programs that are automatically loaded when Windows starts. To do this, you need:
- Press the Windows + R key combination on your keyboard and enter the command regedit;
- Next in the registry, go to the following path:
It should be noted that according to the instructions above, program startup parameters are set for the user on whose behalf the registry is currently being edited. If you want to set parameters for all users, in the left side of the registry editing window, right-click on the Run folder and select “Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE section.” After that, follow the procedures to add or remove a program from the startup list.
You can enable autoloading of individual applications through a special folder. It is enough to place a program shortcut in it so that it automatically starts every time Windows boots. To go to this folder, just press the Windows + R key combination on your keyboard and enter the command in the “Run” window shell:startup.
It should be noted that this folder does not contain all programs that are set to start automatically when the operating system starts. You cannot disable system applications through it.
