[Windows Tutorial] 🚀 Speed up Windows startup: tips and tweaks

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When it comes to optimizing your Windows device, one of the key optimization areas is the startup process. The applications that run automatically when your device boots up can impact both the speed of your startup and the overall performance of your system. By customizing which applications launch on startup, you can streamline your routine, ensuring that only the tools you need for your daily tasks are ready and waiting for you.

Depending on how the applications are installed and registered in Windows, there are different ways to configure their startup behavior:

• Any applications that are registered in Windows with a startup task can be configured from Settings or from Task Manager
• Other applications can be configured using File Explorer

Expand each section to learn more.

• Configure startup applications from Settings
• Configure startup applications from Task Manager
• Configure startup applications from File Explorer

Fix the error: We couldn’t find this app

If you see the massage We couldn’t find this app as an app title in Settings, the app could be on a removable drive, a network drive, or the path to the app might not exist. This could also happen if an app was uninstalled, therefore you can try to reinstall the app to try to fix it.

To find more information about the missing app, select the => icon next to the On / Off toggle of the app.

When there isn’t a valid path, a window lists the registry location or the file path that contains the broken path. If the path points to a registry location, you can use the Registry Editor and find the broken path.

Startup apps in the registry

The startup applications in Windows can be stored in specific registry locations.

• For applications that run at startup for all users, the registry paths are:

1. HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
2. HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

• For applications that run at startup for the current user, the registry path is:

1. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Caution:  modifying the registry can have unintended consequences. It’s important to be careful and back up the registry before making changes.