(I’m also guessing yours will be shorter.) Here you can control what gets started automatically and see what impact each item seems to have on your startup time. If you’re wondering what in that long list you can disable, have a look here: What Can I Disable in Task Manager’s Startup List?Įven after you disable some entries, it’s still a pretty long list, but at least it’s manageable. The Startup tab in Task Manager is your best, first place to edit what’s in your control concerning startup. To make changes to the startup order, you have to make many assumptions about how things work and how they might or might not change over time.ĭo it wrong, and you can make your machine unbootable. Changing startup order: just not a good idea Your list will be different, of course, as it’s highly dependent on exactly what you have installed and on the configuration of your machine but it’s not going to be significantly less complex. That’s an example of Autoruns on my machine, listing hundreds of elements involved in Windows’ startup. There’s so much going on behind the scenes that we just never need to think about.Ī great way to understand the magnitude of what I’m talking about is to download and run the free Autoruns utility from Microsoft. The start-up sequence is complex because Windows is complex. The good news is that with the security software built into Windows 10, startup is secure, no matter what order programs run in.
Windows Task Manager includes the ability to control some aspects of startup, but controlling startup order is not one of them.
You can use Autoruns to get a sense for how many different parts there are.
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The startup sequence for Windows 10 is complex.