The key is not what’s on my list, but how to evaluate what’s on yours. You may have fewer - or perhaps even more. Yes, I’m a “power user” and have many, many entries in my Startup.
Task Manager’s Startup tab on my machine. (In prior versions of Windows, you can run the “msconfig” utility for a similar list.)įor example, here’s an image of what I see when I run it on my primary Windows 10 Pro system. Right-click on the taskbar clock, click on Task Manager, click on More details, if present, and then click on the Startup tab.
The first place to turn to 1 is the Startup tab in Task Manager. Instead, I’ll give you an overview of the steps I take to manage my startup.
Every machine is different, everyone has different software installed, and everyone has different ideas of what is and is not important. There is no “minimum set” of startup programs that I can list here that would work for everyone. Ultimately, this is an unanswerable question.įor many Windows startup programs, the answer will be “I don’t know.”īut there are definitely steps you can take to understand much of what is happening at startup and make a few decisions.
