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I think the Startup Processes really gets abused and people default to blame Windows for it. My time to a usable desktop seemed slow until I removed Teams, Stea

I think the Startup Processes really gets abused and people default to blame Windows for it. My time to a usable desktop seemed slow until I removed Teams, Steam, Dropbox and some other update utilities from Startup. Now it's pretty much instant.

sumtechguy 5y ago
I keep mine startup fairly clean and this is key to a 'fast startup'. There are about 10 different ways applications can auto start in windows and you have too check them all, as all will be used. My laptop from 2012 is 10-30 seconds. My laptop from last year is usually under 10. My NUC from 2011 is about 30 seconds and has been consistently that for the time I have owned it. Also on older computers check to see if it is thermal throttling. As the fans/paste can stop being effective and just need to be cleaned up after some time. My parents bought this rubish computer about 3 years ago it is easily 3-5 mins to startup. Which is due to a lack of RAM (3GB, which should be plenty) and windows swapping to startup. Plus a bunch of startup apps they 'just can not live without'. I remove them, and get 'wow the computer is so much faster'. Few months later and some update to that 'must have' app will put itself back into the startup (sigh).
- snakeman 5y ago
  Amusingly, Microsoft provides their own tool (1) for excellent insight and enabling/disabling of all the various places applications can put their startup executables. 1 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/auto...
  - sumtechguy 5y ago
    I had totally forgot about that util! Thank you for reminding me! The sysinternal tools are great. They should just bake them into the OS.
KineticLensman 5y ago
Yes. All of those. I also disable the various iTunes and Creative Cloud 'helpers'
N00bN00b 5y ago
I've been using hibernate for years now. I start my computer once per month. I really wouldn't care if it takes 5 minutes. I'm not sure why that isn't shown by default anymore. But you can still add it to the menu and map it to the power button.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
  It isn't shown because on 10 "power off" is a lightly-tweaked hibernate.
  - N00bN00b 5y ago
    Not at all. Power off closes all your apps, hibernate doesn't. I'm generally using 15 or 20 apps. I only have to open those once a month after updates. If someone uses power off, they have to open them daily (I know, because I have other computers in my house configured like that).
    - yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
      True, it's not quite identical, but I expect that's why hibernate isn't on the menu by default (b/c power off was close enough in MS's opinion).
andai 5y ago
If you think it's fast now, just wait til you remove Windows!

sumtechguy 5y ago

I keep mine startup fairly clean and this is key to a 'fast startup'. There are about 10 different ways applications can auto start in windows and you have too check them all, as all will be used. My laptop from 2012 is 10-30 seconds. My laptop from last year is usually under 10. My NUC from 2011 is about 30 seconds and has been consistently that for the time I have owned it. Also on older computers check to see if it is thermal throttling. As the fans/paste can stop being effective and just need to be cleaned up after some time. My parents bought this rubish computer about 3 years ago it is easily 3-5 mins to startup. Which is due to a lack of RAM (3GB, which should be plenty) and windows swapping to startup. Plus a bunch of startup apps they 'just can not live without'. I remove them, and get 'wow the computer is so much faster'. Few months later and some update to that 'must have' app will put itself back into the startup (sigh).

snakeman 5y ago
Amusingly, Microsoft provides their own tool (1) for excellent insight and enabling/disabling of all the various places applications can put their startup executables. 1 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/auto...
- sumtechguy 5y ago
  I had totally forgot about that util! Thank you for reminding me! The sysinternal tools are great. They should just bake them into the OS.

KineticLensman 5y ago

Yes. All of those. I also disable the various iTunes and Creative Cloud 'helpers'

N00bN00b 5y ago

I've been using hibernate for years now. I start my computer once per month. I really wouldn't care if it takes 5 minutes. I'm not sure why that isn't shown by default anymore. But you can still add it to the menu and map it to the power button.

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
It isn't shown because on 10 "power off" is a lightly-tweaked hibernate.
- N00bN00b 5y ago
  Not at all. Power off closes all your apps, hibernate doesn't. I'm generally using 15 or 20 apps. I only have to open those once a month after updates. If someone uses power off, they have to open them daily (I know, because I have other computers in my house configured like that).
  - yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
    True, it's not quite identical, but I expect that's why hibernate isn't on the menu by default (b/c power off was close enough in MS's opinion).

andai 5y ago

If you think it's fast now, just wait til you remove Windows!