Windows 10/11: Ctrl+alt+delete, click on task manager, click on autostart applications (left panel), setup your applications for autostart
McAfee is actual malware at this point anyway
Imagine needing an antivirus
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Even Windows doesn’t really even need a 3rd party anti-virus anymore. The built in windows defender has gotten so good as to really be all you need for active protection unless you’re insanely stupid and keep bypassing it. Use Malwarebytes for deep file scans once in a blue moon, and you’re golden.
CCleaner also hasn’t been necessary since at least Windows 7. I remember working in a PC repair shop when people would just arbitrarily run CCleaner on its most aggressive settings whether it was needed or not and it would always break more things than it fixed.
i have a potato laptop with only 4gb of ram, safe to say most startup apps are off
Could you upgrade the ram or is it ddr2?
People install McAfee, Epic and CCleaner?
Epic is nice for free shit and drm free games.
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.
Is Heroic not using wine? I thought it’s similar to lutris.
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.
+1 for autoruns
meanwhile linux users
also who uses epic games
Well I use the website to get the free games. I barely missed any so far and played like 5 of them using Heroic.
Only 3 of them even run on my OS. Good.
