Prevent programs from automatically running at startup

Many programmers have learned a trick that gives the illusion of improving the speed of starting their own program, but it comes at the cost of slowing down the overall performance of your PC. This trick consists of loading a portion of the program during the time when your PC is first starting up. Later, when you want to actually run their program part of it is already loaded into your PC's memory and it gives the appearance of loading very quickly.

Another programmer trick is to keep a portion of their program running all the time so that they can periodically remind you that an updated version of their program is available for download. While there are both advantages and disadvantages to this practice the bottom line is that if you do not have a high performance computer the additional load these programs add will eventually cause your PC to run slower over time.

This video shows you how to identify those programs and disable the ones you do not want to load at startup.