Another Quick Way to Find Out What Programs are Starting with Windows

By | August 30, 2022
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Another Quick Way to Find Out What Programs are Starting with Windows

This tip is for everyone using Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Most of you know that having too many programs/apps starting with Windows can be detrimental to your computer’s performance, especially if your PC has less than 8 GB of RAM. You can see what programs/apps are starting with Windows by opening the Task Manager and clicking on the Startup tab and you can disable and enable startup apps/programs from there as well.

Today we’re going to show you a quick, geeky way to find out what programs/apps are starting with Windows on your computer.

To see all the programs/apps starting with Windows on your PC, do this:

1. Press the Windows key + R.
2. In the Run box type WMIC and press Enter
3. In the Command prompt which opens you’ll see wmic:root\cli>
4. At the prompt type startup and press enter
5. If you did all of that correctly, you’ll see a list of programs that start with Windows.

And now you know another way of finding out what programs/apps are starting with Windows on your computer.

3 thoughts on “Another Quick Way to Find Out What Programs are Starting with Windows

    1. infoave Post author

      I can’t tell you that without looking at what is starting up with Windows on your PC. I can tell you not to disable your antivirus. And if you’re using a backup program, Google Drive or OneDrive to back up your computer don’t disable it either. I don’t know what you have installed on your PC or what is starting up on your PC so I can’t give you a list of what you should/might disable.

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  1. S.M. Corbin

    What is going on with TASK HOST? Often when I am attempting to turn off my computer lately, I get this notice from TASK HOST letting me know there are programs still running. To my knowledge, no problems are running. This just started recently (maybe with the latest update of Windows 10 and Windows 11?

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