Programs Still Loading at Startup (Even Though Disabled)

win9598xp7 · Jul 30, 2024

One of the things I always do is turn off any unneeded apps that load at start up (that slow down my initial boot up). I've been about 90% successful, but there are a few stragglers that just don't seem to obey the settings.

At first boot, I loaded the Task Manager, and took down a list of anything that was loaded (that I know I have turned off in either the Windows 11 start up settings or msconfig). But there are some problem childs that keep loading.

I want these to wait until I invoke them (not load automatically). Any help on what services or settings I need to disabled would be very helpful.

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dacrone · Jul 30, 2024

Disable any corresponding scheduled tasks and set related services to manual

Sir_George · Jul 30, 2024

win9598xp7 said:
One of the things I always do is turn off any unneeded apps that load at start up (that slow down my initial boot up). I've been about 90% successful, but there are a few stragglers that just don't seem to obey the settings.

At first boot, I loaded the Task Manager, and took down a list of anything that was loaded (that I know I have turned off in either the Windows 11 start up settings or msconfig). But there are some problem childs that keep loading.

I want these to wait until I invoke them (not load automatically). Any help on what services or settings I need to disabled would be very helpful.

microsoft edge updater

feedback hub

news

notification manager for adobe acrobat

phone link

update checker minitool partition

Autoruns is a great utility for preventing apps from loading at startup. You can download it at the site listed below;

Autoruns - Sysinternals

See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login.

learn.microsoft.com

FreeBooter · Jul 30, 2024

In this video, i will show you how to enable or disable let apps run in the background for your account in Windows 11.

MitchInHome · Jul 30, 2024

win9598xp7 said:
I want these to wait until I invoke them (not load automatically). Any help on what services or settings I need to disabled would be very helpful.

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For Microsoft Edge I use Winaero Tweaker Winaero Tweaker - Works great

win9598xp7 · Jul 31, 2024

MitchInHome said:
For Microsoft Edge I use Winaero Tweaker Winaero Tweaker - Works great

I've been having some sucess on the other apps in my list above, using Revo Uninstallers Autorun Manager, and using the method describe to set them to "Never run in background." But I had a question about your Winaero suggestion...

I see on their site, it has a screenshot regarding this setting. It looks like this will stop the update from actually happening, but will that also prevent the Microsoft Edge Updater process from loading at start up and appearing in the Task Manager? That is what I'm trying to target.

dacrone · Jul 31, 2024

do you use edge or another browser?

win9598xp7 · Jul 31, 2024

dacrone said:
do you use edge or another browser?

Edge 90% of the time

dacrone · Jul 31, 2024

ok. was going to suggest you can just disable edge completely, but if you want to use it.. there are many ways to disable edge updates. if you want to manually turn on/off the capability, you can use the reg keys from the following link. just export the current one that has updates enabled, then change it to disabled and export that key. from then on you can just run the enable/disable reg keys to be able to update or disable updates for edge.

How to Disable Updates in Microsoft Edge

You may want to disable Edge updates to make it stick to some specific browser version. By default the app fetches most recent versions from the Internet,

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win9598xp7 · Jul 31, 2024

dacrone said:
ok. was going to suggest you can just disable edge completely, but if you want to use it.. there are many ways to disable edge updates. if you want to manually turn on/off the capability, you can use the reg keys from the following link. just export the current one that has updates enabled, then change it to disabled and export that key. from then on you can just run the enable/disable reg keys to be able to update or disable updates for edge.

How to Disable Updates in Microsoft Edge

You may want to disable Edge updates to make it stick to some specific browser version. By default the app fetches most recent versions from the Internet,

winaero.com

Thanks. So this will kill the update process that also loads at start up, so it's not sitting my Task Manager? Again, I have turned it off in virtually every other way possible, but it's persistent.

dacrone · Aug 1, 2024

Can’t guarantee it, as I disabled Edge completely. But if it can’t update, I’d assume the updater wouldn’t run. Even if it did, it wouldn’t consume any resources as it wouldn’t be able to process any updates.

Ghot · Aug 1, 2024

I have the EDGE updater blocked in the Bitdefender firewall...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe

But it still shows up in Task Manager (Background processes), after the computer's started. :/
But the last time... msedge.exe was updated was Oct. 16th 2022.