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McAfee is actual malware at this point anyway

CCleaner? Adobe? Origin? McAfee? What is this, some kind of child's computer?

Delete mcafee and ccleaner pls

People install McAfee, Epic and CCleaner?

Each one bringing it's own little version of Chrome along for the ride.

is this a windows thing that im too linux to understand

Everyone is making fun of the apps included in OP, but it’s besides the point—apps that demand resources at startup are the worst if you don’t need them. I ruthlessly deny permissions for anything installed, it’s like Gandalf in there holding the bridge and pushing presumptuous asshole apps over the bridge.

Unironically you're missing the point. The point being, it's not a problem for many apps to start because oh how powerful PCs got. The problem is when some apps use so much resources that regardless of how powerful your PC gets, it's wasteful to have them opened all the time.

Reason for that problem is them using unoptimized frameworks such as Electron and CEF (seriously, check each app on the image).

And main reasons for that are:

• Google posing browser component as a GUI framework.

• Devs not caring (or being lazy) enough to do native coding.

I wish every person would realize the above so we could force developers do their job better.

Wow... It's such an awesome feeling that I can't relate to this meme 🥰

Only thing missing from this atrocious set of spyware is Valorant's properiarty Vangaurd rootkit

But... but... then how will they collect telemetry for targeted advertising?

For those that have this issue,

Disclaimer:

misuse can seriously fuck up windows. Disabling things that shouldnt be, is bad. Many of the services are required by other aplications to run. Do not disable any Microsoft services you dont know what they do - otherwise disable as many as possible until the computer stops working.

If you can not read or just want to uncheck everything you see, this is not for you:

Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager "start up" section on 5 doeses of steroids. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

Y'all know about changing your startup programs right?

The joy of Windows.

meanwhile linux users

also who uses epic games

Gross, Windows.

USE LINUX

Discord doesn't respect the Windows startup settings. That whole platform is a fucking cancer on the human race.

Who the hell uses the Spotify app?? If you use it from the browser, ublock eliminates advertising perfectly. Why would I want to use the app where I can't block it?