In order to avoid such situations, it is important for you to understand how you can disable some start-up programs so that you can decrease the boot time, and can make your Windows 8/Windows 8.1 computer start comparatively smoothly and quickly.
Here is how you can disable the unwanted programs from getting initialized during the Windows 8/Windows 8.1 start-up:
- Log on to the Windows 8/Windows 8.1 computer using the administrator account.
- From the Start screen, click the Desktop tile.
- Once on the desktop screen, right-click the taskbar from the bottom of the window.
- From the displayed context menu, click Task Manager.
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- On the opened Task Manager box, click the More details button from the bottom.
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- From the expanded interface, go to the Startup tab.
- From the displayed list of start-up programs, click to select the unwanted one.
- After selecting, click the Disable button present at the bottom right corner of the Task Manager box.

Note: In order to disable multiple software applications from getting initialized during the Windows start-up, you must follow the above steps for each program individually.

