HOW TO USE THE MICROSOFT CONFIGURATION UTILITY TO STOP COMPUTER APPLICATIONS FROM STARTING AUTOMATICALLY

If you've arrived here then you are most likely having issues with the speed of your computer and have decided to take measures to see if the solution to the problem is within your reach and probably save yourself a few bucks, well you're in the right place for a solution. In case you have not read my initial post on the on the subject matter please check out our post "IS YOUR COMPUTER SLOWING DOWN". This will give you an oversight of the the causes and possible solutions to the problem and explain in detail why you should be reading this article. So lets get down to business; how do you use the Microsoft Configuration Utility to stop computer applications from starting automatically?

In a few simple steps I'll show you how

STEP1 

Load the Microsoft Configuration Utility, this can be done by simply searching for MSCONFIG.EXE  and right -clicking it and selecting RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR, this will load the application and allow you make the necessary changes.

STEP 2

When the Configuration utility is running

tick the box as shown in the image above to hide all Microsoft services and then select the application services you want to stop from starting automatically, if you are new to the whole tech geek stuff then just select disable all after the hide all Microsoft services has been selected.

STEP 3

The next thing to do is to stop the actuall applications from running on start-up, this can be achieved by either selecting the start-up tab on the system configuration utility of pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to launch the Windows Task Manager Utility from where the Start-up tab which contains the start up applications can be reached and selective applications disabled from running on start-up as seen in the image below.

After doing this, restart your computer, its should be much faster than it was before. If you still have any issues please comment below and we'll provide you with the best available procedure to speed up your computer.

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