When you use this utility, you can select options to temporarily prevent services and programs from loading during the Windows startup process. With this process, you can reduce the risk of making typing errors when you use Registry Editor. Additionally, when you use the utility, it is easy to restore the original configuration.
When you use the System Configuration utility, you can start Windows while common services and startup programs are disabled. Then, you can enable them one at a time. If an issue does not occur when a service is disabled but does occur when the service is enabled, the service could be the cause of the issue.
The diagnostic startup option enables Windows to determine which basic device drivers and software to load when you start Windows. When you use this option, the system temporarily disables Microsoft services such as the following services:
If you can reproduce the issue after the computer restarts, the issue is not related to system services or startup items. In this case, the System Configuration utility will not help troubleshoot the issue.
If you cannot reproduce the issue after the computer restarts, the issue is related to either the system services or the startup items. To determine the items to which the issue is related, follow these steps:
After you determine the items to which the issue is related, follow the steps in the "How to determine the service or startup item that is causing the issue" section to determine the individual service or startup item that is causing the issue.
On the Startup tab in Task Manager, for each Enabled startup item, select the item and then select Disable. (Keep track of which items have been Disabled. You will need to know this later.)
If your problem does not occur while the computer is in a clean boot environment, then you can determine which startup application or service is causing the problem by systematically turning them on or off and restarting the computer. While turning on a single service or startup item and rebooting each time will eventually find the problematic service or application, the most efficient way to do this is to test half of them at a time, thus eliminating half of the items as the potential cause with each reboot of the computer. You can then repeat this process until you've isolated the problem. Here's how:
Since upgrading to macOS 13.x, I've received a sequence of Background Items Added notifications with every restart. Permission for all these is enabled under General > Login items: Allow in the Background:
There are reports that this repeated dialog may be a bug in Ventura. With this kind of software, it is very difficult to say. It could be buggy behaviour within the apps. Considering how difficult it is for regular people to diagnose these issues, it is very difficult to get meaningful information. And the new interface in Ventura doesn't help. It lists items by developer name. But it obtains this from developer signatures. But those apps most like to cause problems are the ones that don't have signatures. The are the items identified as "SCloudWatch", "SshResident", or even just "open". To even find out what those items really are is quite difficult. There are some easier methods, but I can't mention them. ?
Online Armor deals with unwanted autoruns by blocking the autorun itself; it does not act as a switch on/off for autoruns (unlike some programs out there). Ensuring that if the autorun is re-enabled at reboot, the autorun still won't do anything unless the autorun spawned under a different name; but even this can be dealt with in another way. This has saved me trouble even with programs that re-enable autorun if I manually execute the program (if I ever need to use it). And it has worked even on stubborn startup services that almost nothing else worked against.
First, make sure any antivirus, antimalware, or whatever else is not protecting your startup/services. Sometimes these apps make a "cage" to prevent malfeasantware from mucking your registry/startup. If you find this is the case, attempt your disables from within the protector app.
I'm having this issue too but I wasn't able to solve it by doing the above steps. I'm on an iMac OS Monterey 12.3.1. I have the Launch BTT on startup ticked under Settings and tried with having BTT added and removed from the login items. It still doesn't launch on startup. Is there anything else I can try?
I have tried removing BTT from my startup items; deselecting and then reselecting the launch-on-startup option in BTT preferences; and fully rebooting my Mac, instead of just logging out and logging in again. But nothing works.
In each of these Windows versions, there is a Control Panel for Startup Apps which shows a list of applications that can be run automatically on startup. These applications are either enabled for startup or disabled.
Open the windows startup menu, then type "MSCONFIG". When you press enter, the system configuration console is opened. Then click the "Startup" tab which will display some programs that can be enabled or disabled for startup.
Navigate to \Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup. In this folder, paste the shortcut of your desired app. This will make it a startup application with a status of "enabled".
Some applications or services cause system errors or freezes when running concurrently with Adobe applications. Services are specialized programs that perform functions to support other programs. Before starting your Adobe application, disable other applications, including startup items (items that start automatically with Windows), and services using Selective Startup.
I have developed an application which will run at system startup.And it is working fine at system startup,i could see the application in System Configuration -> Startup.All the applications shown at Startup can be enabled / disabled.
The Normal Startup option allows Windows to boot normally. The Diagnostic Startup option works similarly to Safe Mode. It only loads drivers and services. The Selective Startup option allows you to enable or disable the loading of system services, startup items, and the original boot configuration.
The Services tab, shown in figure 3, displays all of the services that have been registered to the operating system. Like the Service Control Manager, the Services tab displays each service's status (running or stopped). What is different however, is that this tab does not allow you to directly configure the startup type or to manually change a service's state as is possible through the Service Control Manager. Instead, the Services tab contains a series of check boxes that you can use to enable or to disable individual services.
The fourth tab is the Startup tab. Although no startup items are shown in figure 4, the Startup tab lists items that are configured to run at system startup. As is the case with the Services tab, a series of check boxes allow you to enable or to disable individual startup items.
There are two main advantages to using the Startup tab as opposed to manually performing startup configuration changes. First, the Startup screen lets you enable or disable startup items through the use of check boxes. As such, you don't have to worry about manually removing a startup item from the registry and then later reconstructing the registry key correctly. You can simply deselect and then later reselect a check box.
Many programs install background applications that are called startup items, having multiple startup items can slow down your computer and even cause random crashes. This article explains how to disable these background programs using the msconfig
Once you have opened the msconfig tool go to the Startup tab and begin enabling the startup items 3 at the time, once the issue reappears go to the last three items you enabled and disable them one by one to spot the conflicting item.
If a unit is enabled that means that the system will start it on startup. Though setting something to enabled doesn't actually also start it so you will need to do that manually, or reboot the system after setting it to enabled.
You may not realize it, but your computer runs several applications as soon as it starts. While this is necessary for your computer to function, too many applications running on startup can slow down your computer. Among other ways to keep your computer running smoothly, you can disable applications from running on startup to improve its performance.