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Bluetooth Manager

Catalyst Control Center

Epson Monitor

HD Audio BG Process

Intel Rapid Storage

I don't believe I've ever configured a program to run while I boot to desktop.. I've seen it done in boot time benchmarks where the browser opens up and says "Complete", but I myself probably would never need to have a program auto start. To be honest, when I get to the PC, whatever happens next is random. Maybe I'll play Crysis 3, McGee's Alice, draw in Adobe Flash, hit the infowars scene, or just listen to a song... yep, absolutely random :)

Avast

Carbonite

Sandboxie

Skype

Scanner software for my Scansnap document scanner

malwarebytes

Trillian

Protector Suite (finger print reader software)

Clavier (Hot key software)

Launch bar commander

That's about it. Most of those automaticly start with windows. I didn't actually tell them to, But I use all of them daily so I haven't wanted to disable any of them. Plus i'm on a SSD so no slow down.

None. Startup apps should have died with XP.

Are you referring to the startup folder or apps starting with your computer in General? if they would have removed the ability for apps to start with the computer from every version after XP then how would programs launch on startup?

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This are the ones in my startup list:

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Dude you should seriously remove all the crap like Adobe Updater which just clutter your system. Sure they run as a low priority service and probably suck up about 200KB of memory but they are pretty much pointless and annoying not to mention often a burden on start up time.

Are you referring to the startup folder or apps starting with your computer in General? if they would have removed the ability for apps to start with the computer from every version after XP then how would programs launch on startup?

Non essentials OS apps and services starting on startup. They do nothing but drag down performance.

AIM

Steam

Skype

Google Drive/Dropbox

Malwarebytes

I don't have it on my startup list, but I startup Zune, Chrome and Firefox after the computer boots. I never shutdown my computer, always use sleep when possible, and I have an SSD, so startup time is well below a 1 minute after logging in and have a ready to function desktop.

Four things:

* Sidebar (yea, I liek teh gagdets)

* MiniBin (Desktop doesn't have any icons)

* hMailServer (as a service)

* NetLimiter (as a service)

Also, I make it a point to disable all applications (and services, including system) which I don't use or give me no useful functionality.

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Dude you should seriously remove all the crap like Adobe Updater which just clutter your system. Sure they run as a low priority service and probably suck up about 200KB of memory but they are pretty much pointless and annoying not to mention often a burden on start up time.

I was the first to disable those items, but they now have virtually no impact on startup time, specially with an SSD drive. Also, Adobe add them again when doing updates, so why bother? If I noticed a performance hit, I would disable them again.

I only remove/disable services that I don't need like Adobe Drive or Switchboard.

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