How do we change the up order in Windows 10?
Hi, everyone. Leo Notenboom here for Askleo.com.
Let's get right to our question.
How do I change the sequence of loading items shown in the start up tab,
perhaps many people would prefer to have their anti malware software loaded first.
I'll be blunt.
You can't and to the extent that you can, you shouldn't.
The problem is that Windows,
as you might imagine, is incredibly complex,
and nowhere is that more evident than in the startup sequence.
It would be very, very easy
to basically break things in the worst case, even render windows itself
unbootable by making changes to the order in which things happen.
My recommendation will be to leave well enough alone.
And if you have issues with the startup, consider removing things.
What I want to do is I want to show you just exactly some of the evidence to back
my claim of how complicated the Windows startup sequence is.
Let's head over to Windows 10 home.
And what I'm going to do is download a utility from Microsoft called AutoRuns.
Auto runs is basically a tool that lets you look at absolutely everything
that Windows thinks about, at least at Startup Time auto runs.
Zip has all the files.
I'm going to copy them all to my downloads folder so that I can actually run them.
That's a quick way to extract the files out of a zip file if you've not done
that before and we're going to just run auto runs.
I have to agree to the license, and this is the first time I've run it.
I'll go and close these other windows for a while that populates.
And you can see that while that populates is not an insignificant amount of time,
you can see there's a scroll bar here that's getting shorter and shorter because
the list of items here is getting longer and longer.
Let's see.
The other option that I'm going to make is to run as administrator.
So we really get to see everything.
And one other option I'm going to set here is to not hide windows entries, because,
let's face it, the Windows entries are just as important
a part of starting up windows as anything else.
And it takes even longer to build
the list, so as we scroll through this, you can see all of the different things
that are somehow involved in starting up windows.
Now, I'll be clear, you know, this is not necessarily,
you know, a gazillion programs that all start up at Windows.
Many of what are set here are schedule
tasks or things that are plugged in to various places.
But the bottom line is that when you start
up, you're starting up all these services, you're starting up.
All these things that log in time, there are just so many different things
involved in Windows startup that I cannot in good conscience recommend
even thinking about playing with the startup order.
What I can do, however,
is suggest you go ahead and take a look at the startup tab in.
Task manager.
That way you can see what is happening
here and can remove those things that you want removed, here's a great example.
I don't use Skype on this machine.
I've disabled its startup.
That's the best way to control what's happening at startup time.
So one other thing before I end this video,
the comment and the question seemed to imply that there was a window
of vulnerability where before security software actually started.
It's possible that may have been true in the past.
It's not in Windows 10.
And the reason it's not in Windows 10 is because Windows Security,
Windows defender, Microsoft Defender, whatever they're calling it this week
is built into the operating system.
In other words, security is baked in from the moment Windows starts.
So that's not something I'm concerned about in the least.
Everything else after that is like an optimization.
I suppose if you just like to see something start before others.
But honestly, it's not worth the risk for updates, for related links.
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