First, right-click on the Start icon and select Run. When the Run dialogue box pops up, type shell:appsfolder and select ...

To disable a program, simply right-click on it and select “Disable.” Be cautious not to disable essential system programs. Focus on third-party applications that you don’t need immediately after ...

Managing the applications that launch at startup is crucial for optimizing your Windows device's performance. By customizing which applications start automatically, you can streamline your routine and ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You can control which apps and processes automatically start up with your computer. You can control which apps ...

It seems as though the more powerful computers get, the more noticeable it is once they start to buckle under the pressure of multi-tabbed web sessions, unchecked digital hoarding, many-windowed ...

PC World's Michael Crider reports that Office is now so slow to load that "Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup." The "Startup Boost" function, soon to be available, frontloads the suite's ...

Fast startup is a handy feature on Windows that speeds up boot times by preventing the PC from shutting down completely. When enabled, it saves part of the system state to a hibernation file on your ...

Do you have any idea how many programs are running on your systems without your knowledge? Using msconfig, you'll know. You'll also see that by shutting down many of these unneccessary programs, your ...