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I'm a uni student in South Australia currently doing an environmental course, however I spent the last few years learning IT networking at Tafe. I've been an avid and/or obsessive reader all my life and enjoy turning interesting life experiences into a good story.

Computers & Technology > Computer Maintenance Controlling the startup menu of your computer

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For various reasons, most programs these days are designed to load at least some of their files up in the background when Windows boots up. This might be so that when you go to use their program, it won't take as long to load up, or perhaps the creators of the software deem it necessary for the program to be running all the time. This is appropriate for antivirus software, but not so much for the increasingly bloated Adobe Acrobat Reader (how often do you look at PDF's?) or a floating window of buttons for printer programs that have icons on your desktop anyway. Most programs these days of...

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