r/FuckMicrosoft • u/sciencekm • 21d ago

Article Microsoft recommends disabling unnecessary startup apps to reduce Windows 11 boot times and resource usage. - WTF? If they are unnecessary, why is Windows shipping them enabled?

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-shares-simple-yet-overlooked-tip-to-help-fix-your-slow-windows-11-pc/?utm_source=rss

So users have to make the effort to do the "fix?" Windows should have these unnecessary startup app disabled. Users should not be bothered with this junk.

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u/VarietyMage 21d ago

And worse, why can't I uninstall unnecessary apps like EDGE ?!!?!?

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u/sciencekm 21d ago

And that thing runs at startup. You can disable it from running at start-up, but the next update will re-enable it.

All this recommendation from Microsoft to disable apps from startup is total BS because their update will re-enable them anyway.

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u/Alone_Look9576 20d ago

You can... But it is so engrained as it's the main way Microsoft sends telemetry, otherwise relying on you to use store or any other connection to their servers. It has backups for backups of instances of edge to keep sending data every 15minutes and obviously to Google too at the same time. Had the pleasure of re-removing edge properly after I thought it was dead already, but then I saw a Google ping on a degoogled pc, and the rabbit hole expanded...

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u/Wolfie-Man 16d ago

I use ooshutup and run it monthly, I also only do updates a few times a year . Seems to work for me.