{"id":9027,"date":"2009-08-24T10:41:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T09:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-add-and-remove-start-up-programs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:20:50","slug":"how-to-add-and-remove-start-up-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-add-and-remove-start-up-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add and remove start up programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my line of work, I see a lot of interesting programs that I know I&#8217;ll use at home. My only problem is actually remembering to use them! What I needed was a way to remember that I had these programs, applications and documents and, above all, to use them regularly. What better way, then, than to have them appear as soon as you turn on your computer?<\/p>\n<p>The process is simple, but will be really useful, especially when there is something that you should use or look at every day but keep forgetting, such as a calendar like <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla-sunbird.en.softonic.com\/\">Sunbird<\/a> or a task manager like <a href=\"http:\/\/task-coach.en.softonic.com\/\">Task Coach.<\/a> The first step is to open up Windows Explorer &#8211; do this by right-clicking on the Start button &#8211; and choosing explore. The Start Menu folder should already be highlighted. Open Programs and drag whatever program or document you want to run at start-up into the open window. That&#8217;s it! I told you it was easy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Preventing a program from running on start-up is also simple. Many applications automatically run on start-up, and, if you have too many of them, it can slow your system down. There are some programs that target this problem &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/system-explorer.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">System Explorer<\/a> &#8211; for example, but if you want  to eliminate a program from start-up manually, it&#8217;s easily done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/blobg01.png\" alt=\"blobg01.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Open <strong>Run<\/strong> from the <strong>Start menu<\/strong> and type &#8216;msconfig&#8217; into the box. Press ok, and a window should appear. Select the Startup tab and you&#8217;ll see a list of all the programs that currently run on start up. Uncheck the ones you don&#8217;t want and click apply, then sit back and enjoy your new, streamlined start up!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/blobg02.png\" alt=\"blobg02.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my line of work, I see a lot of interesting programs that I know I&#8217;ll use at home. My only problem is actually remembering to use them! What I needed was a way to remember that I had these programs, applications and documents and, above all, to use them regularly. What better way, then, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-add-and-remove-start-up-programs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to add and remove start up programs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335407,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions\/335407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}