Photo: David Snow/Cult of Mac Years ago I was a regular Mac user who switched to PC for a long time. When I fully re-immersed myself in the Apple ecosystem, an old annoyance came right back — all ...

Beyond some of the built-in MacBook features that can change the way you use your laptop, installing apps from the App Store allows you to accomplish a great deal more. By navigating to System ...

On Windows 11, if you have a few apps you open immediately every time you sign into your account, you can configure them to launch automatically to save extra steps and get to them faster. You have at ...

Windows 11 hasn't seen the growth numbers Microsoft was probably hoping it would, but it still makes up nearly 20% of Windows installs, according to AdDuplex. Although there have been a lot of ...

Hey, everyone! Today I’m going to show you how to set apps to not load on startup in Windows. App developers usually program their apps to load and open by default when you boot into Windows, which ...

When installed on Windows, Apps can register themselves to launch as soon as you log in to your account. While this works for those apps that you need to be there, such as screenshot-taking tools, ...

It happens to every Windows user eventually. You buy a fancy new PC, and everything runs smoothly at first. And then, slowly but surely, it starts to feel more sluggish. Every week or month, things ...

In Windows operating systems, there is a Startup folder. The files and programs placed inside the Startup folder start automatically on system startup. This is the easiest method to start programs ...

If you're setting a lot of applications to autostart on your Linux PC, you may want to learn other ways to optimize for speed ...

Startup programs are apps or utilities that launch automatically as soon the operating system boots up. On macOS, startup programs are called login items, and they save you the time and effort you’d ...

Startup programs are apps that automatically run when you log in to your computer. However, as much convenience as these apps offer, there’s one downside to using them: if you have too many startup ...

Unless you built your PC yourself, there are probably a bunch of programs installed on your system that start with Windows, though what they do--and whether they really need to start with Windows--is ...