Her laptop’s fan spun up. The battery icon dropped from 98% to 91% in six minutes. Her morning was being eaten not by procrastination, but by things that opened themselves .
“Why,” she said aloud to the empty kitchen, “does every app think it’s the most important thing in my life?”
Windows offers two primary ways to manage startup programs: through the or the Settings menu. Using Task Manager: Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager . Click the Startup apps tab (or Startup in older versions).
She rebooted.