Does your computer take 2 minutes to start up before you even get to the desktop? I know what that's like -- most programs, when installed, will automatically register their startup behavior to "Start when Windows 11 is starting up". They get a lot out of the user when they force their application to start at the beginning of Windows startup. We must understand that they don't have partiality or initiative about you computer usage. They just want their app to be used, and they can set their program default settings how they like.
We're here to combat those programs to create ourselves a more beautiful and coherent Windows 11 experience.
What to do when you have a ton of software you don't want opening?
First of all, most programs have the settings option in their program, giving you free will to change what the nature of how the program acts. I recommend looking in the Taskbar of your Windows 11 PC when you log on, look for all the icons of programs you do not need to use, the ones that you continually close, and purposefully open them. Use their navigation menu of their software settings to open Settings, and look for something along the lines of "Start when Windows starts" and uncheck them.
Actually registering not to open when Windows starts within the program is the first step to freedom. The second, effective yet not optimal way to adjust you startup entries is to use a free program like Glary Utilities to navigate through your start menu items.
Glary allows you to forcefully de-register startup entries. Like I said, the first standard of action is to use the in-menu navigation with the program themselves to disable auto-startup features for the app.
I will provide a couple examples:
Notice the setting for TradeSkillMaster app -> Run at startup
Notice the MSI Afterburner setting within it's Preference window -> Start with Windows and Start minimized
Notice Fan Control program -> Start service on boot, Start app at user login, Start minimized
All of these apps have their own controls for how they operate at Window startup.
THE POINT IS - We want to manipulate the settings for these annoying startup programs from the source, from the programs themselves, and if they don't have the option to disable at startup, we need to take a deeper approach and make an effect on the registry level.
My favorite startup manager program is Glary Utilities. Glary Utilities is great for cleaning temporary and cached files, for repairing disks, for compacting and cleaning the registry, but I found it to be the most potent startup manager there is. I don't use anything else for my startup entries. I've even added my own startup entries in here before to make my own custom startup procedure.
Here's the main screen of Glary.
As you can find the startup menu editor in the screenshot above, here's the following screen that's in question.
Here you can simply toggle on and off different startup entries, and viola, the computer will not start up the program at launch.
The startup manager includes the name, the usefulness, the load time, and the ability to toggle on and off for the startup items.
To achieve PC freedom, Windows efficiency, and happy computing, I highly recommend making only the programs that you absolutely use every single day and every time you're computing to startup on Windows startup.
Whether that's in-program option menus or using Glary utilities or another startup manager program to modify your startup procedure, do what it takes to clean your system and have it perform at the optimal level for you yourself.
About Ryan - Ryan Bassett is a Web designer and developer out of Los Angeles, California and he's the owner of a small web design company named Bassett Graphics. Bassett Graphics offers local Canoga Park Web Design services for all types of businesses and niches, and all business sizes. He is a computer enthusiast and a hardcore Windows and Linux tweaker, and is looking to improve and expand his creative writing skills.
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