A reminder to manage your startup apps

McAfee is actual malware at this point anyway

Delete mcafee and ccleaner pls

For those that don't know, theres a tab in Windows task manager called Startup that let's you modify what apps get started when you log in.

You can also look at the services.msc tool and check all your startup services.

is this a windows thing that im too linux to understand

People install McAfee, Epic and CCleaner?

Each one bringing it's own little version of Chrome along for the ride.

USE LINUX

Laughs in KDE

Unironically you're missing the point. The point being, it's not a problem for many apps to start because oh how powerful PCs got. The problem is when some apps use so much resources that regardless of how powerful your PC gets, it's wasteful to have them opened all the time.

Reason for that problem is them using unoptimized frameworks such as Electron and CEF (seriously, check each app on the image).

And main reasons for that are:

• Google posing browser component as a GUI framework.

• Devs not caring (or being lazy) enough to do native coding.

I wish every person would realize the above so we could force developers do their job better.

Ew, uninstall most of that

Everyone is making fun of the apps included in OP, but it’s besides the point—apps that demand resources at startup are the worst if you don’t need them. I ruthlessly deny permissions for anything installed, it’s like Gandalf in there holding the bridge and pushing presumptuous asshole apps over the bridge.

Wow... It's such an awesome feeling that I can't relate to this meme 🥰

The joy of Windows.

But... but... then how will they collect telemetry for targeted advertising?

For those that have this issue,

Disclaimer:

misuse can seriously fuck up windows. Disabling things that shouldnt be, is bad. Many of the services are required by other aplications to run. Do not disable any Microsoft services you dont know what they do - otherwise disable as many as possible until the computer stops working.

If you can not read or just want to uncheck everything you see, this is not for you:

Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager "start up" section on 5 doeses of steroids. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

Only thing missing from this atrocious set of spyware is Valorant's properiarty Vangaurd rootkit

Gross, Windows.

Who the hell uses the Spotify app?? If you use it from the browser, ublock eliminates advertising perfectly. Why would I want to use the app where I can't block it?

Y'all know about changing your startup programs right?

it's pirated adobe, right?

meanwhile linux users

also who uses epic games

Steam and Discord? Yes. Everything else in that image? I think OneDrive and Windows Defender are the only things there that I have installed, and OneDrive is only on my laptop and only used for work purposes.

Origin side loads even when you disable it's start up service (super annoying)

🪟🤡

Laughing in GNU/Linux

i have a potato laptop with only 4gb of ram, safe to say most startup apps are off

what's the purple ring

Common windows L

Buying a NVME was the best decision I made about tech.

The dreaded McAfee clan was a feared invader. They would take over entire societies and constantly knock on peoples doors with monthly taxes, or "renewals" as they would call them. They would install them selves deep into the government and never let go. Coups thereafter would be futile. You had to level entire nations to get rid of them.

Therefore the McAfee's was known as the worst colonisers in the entire realm.

And this is why I keep nothing in my startup hshah

People still use CCleaner?

Is this something that I'm too Linux to understand?

welp looks like i'm overdue my bi-annual reinstall of Michaelsoft Binbows dot dot dot

it is steam, keepassxc, protonvpn and corectrl for me, I have st them up to do that myself but the pop ups while launching are still annoying. At least I have -silent flag on steam so it starts in the background without showing a window

Throw in the official Runescape launcher

the only one acceptable is steam, discord, maybe spotify, the fuck is that gay cloud and the pink ring?

Should have installed linux

If it's gotten that bad, wait until you check all of the services those programs so cavalierly keep running in the background.

I recognize most of these, but what are the purple ring and the rainbow one?

Windows 10/11: Ctrl+alt+delete, click on task manager, click on autostart applications (left panel), setup your applications for autostart

Only 3 of them even run on my OS. Good.

Startup Apps

i have 25 apps on startup try me.