Sorry to say, it is obvious that you are not a Mac User but we still love you - lol
The MacBook / Unix processes can be easily identified by such applications as "top" and or the activity monitor. There are also still startup apps and this can be manipulated by the end user. The only thing is...
Every process is started from the services page - Windows key + X -> Computer Management -> Services and Applications ->Services.
There are two stages under Status - Running or empty (not running)
There are four stages under startup type - Automatic (Delayed Start), Automatic, Manual...