McAfee is actual malware at this point anyway
CCleaner is too nowadays. How far it it has fallen…
And almost Every. Fucking. Manufacturer. Installs it as bloatware :/
They get paid to do so. It’s not like they just install McAfee at random.
Oh I know, but still they couldn’t find some other software to get paid by? Like damn diversify already, find something fresh and interesting you can get paid to install lol
Like WebTangent or whatever it was called, it was bloatware, but it was bloatware games that were kinda fun. I would always play a few games before I purged that one, but I haven’t seen it in years now
I almost felt the same way about MalwareBytes. I know it’s actually useful but it hassled me so much about upgrading to premium that it was more annoying than having actual malware.
CCleaner? Adobe? Origin? McAfee? What is this, some kind of child’s computer?
Someone who doesn’t understand you can disable all those from starting with your pc
I think you missed the reference. They weren’t referring to children as a lack of familiarity with OS functions, they were referring to children as an ignorance of programs you should ever or never install. If you have mcfee on your computer, TODAY, you should just set your computer out on the curb and never touch an electronic device again.
Until I read the original comment, I didn’t know that was the symbol for McAfee.
Since windows 7, with defender, there’s not even a use for a third party anti virus for the majority of users.
This must have come pre installed with the system. Nobody installs McAfee of their own volition, right?
A lot of systems come with McAfee on them. Especially all the shit you can buy on Amazon from the “vendor stores”.
Implies that removing them is difficult
You don’t want to remove GoG completely, but I’ll be damned if I let it just start on every reboot.
what child could afford an adobe subscription?
Same kids who max out their parents credit cards on FIFA lol
Or grandma.
For those that don’t know, theres a tab in Windows task manager called Startup that let’s you modify what apps get started when you log in.
You can also look at the services.msc tool and check all your startup services.
Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager “start up” super charged.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
Disclainer, misuse can seriously fuck windows. Use with caution. Do not uncheck microsoft crap, no matter how tempting, or anything you’re unsure about.
Thanks(!!!) for the reminder. I knew about it but just never think to go in there. I just now disabled a ton of things I don’t need running.
People install McAfee, Epic and CCleaner?
Epic is nice for free shit and drm free games.
Still not an enough reason to install that Tencent spyware imo.
When I was on Windows that shit failed to connect to the Internet half of the time anyway. Biggest reason I preferred steam out of the two.
Until the launcher wanted to add kernel level “anti cheat”. Then Lemmy told me about Heroic… :-D
Yeah, I use Heroic Launcher just because I’m a Linux user. Anything native is always better than running it in wine, nothing against wine.
And fortnite which despite all the memes is a fun game.
Hay, no judgement here.😁
Epic
You meant EA Origin?
Everyone is making fun of the apps included in OP, but it’s besides the point—apps that demand resources at startup are the worst if you don’t need them. I ruthlessly deny permissions for anything installed, it’s like Gandalf in there holding the bridge and pushing presumptuous asshole apps over the bridge.
Ew, uninstall most of that
right, a lot of it is malware
Unironically you’re missing the point. The point being, it’s not a problem for many apps to start because oh how powerful PCs got. The problem is when some apps use so much resources that regardless of how powerful your PC gets, it’s wasteful to have them opened all the time.
Reason for that problem is them using unoptimized frameworks such as Electron and CEF (seriously, check each app on the image).
And main reasons for that are:
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Google posing browser component as a GUI framework.
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Devs not caring (or being lazy) enough to do native coding.
I wish every person would realize the above so we could force developers do their job better.
Ironically, even if OP missed the point, the apps pictured are resource hogs and all of them don’t need to run on starup other than Defender.
Sure, leave OneDrive/Dropbox on if you use it. Leave Spotify if you just need your music to start blasting the second you reach the desktop. If opening Steam and waiting ~30 seconds for the lord Gaben-given daily update is too much of a problem let it do its thing on startup, but who in their right mind needs Soptify, OneNote and all the gaming clients slowing down startup of literally everything?
And CCleaner, McAffee and Adobe can go fuck themselves along wirh Nestle.
the apps pictured are resource hogs
I mean I didn’t disagree with that.
who in their right mind needs Soptify, OneNote and all the gaming clients slowing down startup of literally everything?
I guess every user who doesn’t care enough to check the autorun settings as long as it works. Probably most non-IT specialists.
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Laughs in KDE
Laughs in tty
Laughs in windows.
For those that have this issue,
Disclaimer:
misuse can seriously fuck up windows. Disabling things that shouldnt be, is bad. Many of the services are required by other aplications to run. Do not disable any Microsoft services you dont know what they do - otherwise disable as many as possible until the computer stops working.
If you can not read or just want to uncheck everything you see, this is not for you:
Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager “start up” section on 5 doeses of steroids. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
It is but you don’t want to recommend it to anybody who doesn’t know what they’re doing because they can seriously break their computer lol
My bad, I normally leave a disclamier, but I forgot.
Please disable all Microsoft services. Your PC and privacy will thank you… (Unless you decide to use something somehow even worse)
There’s definiaty some you can and should be disable, but I’d use O&O for that. Unless you actually know what each service does, its best to leave them alone.
The only Microsoft service I have is vscode and that’s open source… You don’t need any Microsoft services.
Ya know any services that can be disabled in general and how to safely turn them off and back on if something doesn’t work? I hate how Windows Services eats up so much of my really powerful computer.
Only thing missing from this atrocious set of spyware is Valorant’s properiarty Vangaurd rootkit
Fuck riot. Don’t play their trash
Y’all know about changing your startup programs right?
I have almost all apps disabled on startup.
If i want it running i will start it, i assure you.
USE LINUX
Jesus fuck…
Lol it’s everywhere here
WE HEARD YOU.
Nope
This is such an own goal it’s almost a meme at this point.
You know why Linux doesn’t have this shit? Because it hasn’t attracted the ire of the marketing team. Do you know why that is? Because the fraction of target users using Linux is TINY. It’s not worth the expensive engineering effort, especially when you consider the demographic using Linux is unlikely to fall for this shit.
The more you win the “use linux” argument, the more the argument won’t make sense. The day Linux gets enough user share to justify it, is the day all this shit starts happening on Linux.
Also it’s much easier to disable on Linux and not every distro uses the same program to start apps on boot so most annoying programmes can’t find it. Discord (which I would ideally move away from if my friends didn’t use it) certainly thinks it’s enabled on startup somehow.
Windows seems to start some startup apps before you log in also worries me as that means malware could start before you are able to remove it and I don’t know how to reach tty mode before reaching a gui so yeah…
They hated him because he spoke the truth
How about no
Gnutard
He didn’t even /anything with his Linux. I think that charge is incorrect
