Clean up startup apps
Also searched as: startup cleanup · disable startup apps · boot time · msconfig startup
The goal
Speed up boot and cut background stutter sources by stopping vendor extras from launching with Windows.
Steps & the undo
The step-by-step — with its undo attached — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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