whaddya mean i gotta click three times every morning to get my work programs open. I want them open for me!!
probably the first indication of enshitification. I remember adoring the next step because of how I could setup the doc and pull programs I wanted to autostart to the right. Thing is when programs would install and set themselves to auto start as part of it and as the process of stopping them from auto started became more and more obfuscated. ugh.
riiight, AUTOEXEC.BAT is totally responsible for 3sec attention spans! /s
Channel surfing is responsible for 3sec attention spans.
Why do the same thing every morning when I could spend that time on something else?
I don’t think this is the same thing as a loss of attention span
It’s more of an efficiency thing for power users. And it’s on by default so in that sense the issue is not the function, the issue is the default, and that’s up to Microsoft.
Delete your init system and tell me this again.
Back when starting your computer and launching programs took a good chunk of your first hour at work (this was about 10-15 years ago for me), having startup programs meant you could just
- hit the button
- get coffee
- chat with colleagues
- login
- get coffee
- review the incoming paperwork
- get coffee
- start the one program that didn’t autolaunch
- get coffee
- actually start doing something on your pc
those people in sitcoms chilling at coffee machines were probably waiting for their PC to start. Launching corporate software took ages, having them started neatly by windows saved you from having to start the next program when the previous was finally launched after a few minutes.
The biggest bump in computer performance in history wasn’t getting more memory or a faster CPU, it was switching from a HDD to a SSD.
definately. when ssd’s came down in prce at the dawn the 20teens you just throw an ssd and some more ram on an old machine and wow. it was incredible and way better than anything new still using a spinning disk. My wife installs to many games so will put one on the larger spinning drive and then comments they can’t run right.
I have to wait 8 minutes after windows login for everything to start, due to the layers of security Software on my, fairly powerful, workplace pc. And after that another minute for Outlook to be ready.
Windows is so painfully slow after you get used to Linux
Oh Yes, we had Linux for years on our work Laptops and it was so much faster. I miss it so much, not only for the speed.
Autostart as an option is good.
Not being able to block apps from autostarting is unacceptable.
Looking at you android, fuck right off with that shit.
Speak for yourself. I was all up in those msconfig.exe guts
Saaaaame
Getting a pc to then not having it do the automation for me is like getting a 4x4 pickup truck to just get to the office job and the car is being parked there the whole time.
Having some information screen computers start on there own after power on is a nice feature. Why Windows ended up implementing it in like 4 different ways is beyond me. And why it’s a default for each app is probably to gather your information and track you. It’s always best to turn it off, this will free up the resources of the apps you do want to use. And like you said it ain’t ad much work
4?
Isn’t it like 34 now?
I’ve supported Windows since 3.1, had the Resource Kit book all tabbed, dog-eared, marked up, etc, and I still can’t name all the ways something can be auto-started, lol.
I’ve supported Windows since 3.1,
I am curious as to what possesses someone to “support” Windows?
The Sysinternals Suite has Autoruns which shows most of them, though it’s very easy to break Explorer or other Windows UI elements by disabling the wrong thing in it.
Oh yea, I use that and others such as Nir Sofers tools (those are some that everything be should have).
Surprisingly msconfig does a pretty good job these days.
I also use Startup Delayer on all machines I build. It makes it easier for the average person to see most of what’s going to startup, and to disable it without deleting.
I just thought of something hella funny to do but not sure if it’s even possible…
Can you have a .BAT file run at start? If so, Imma make one that executes the shutdown command then have it run at boot on my sister’s machine. 😈
You can run anything you want in startup, go to run and type
shell:startupand put the batch in the folder that pops upcrt brightness could be brought down to zero back in the day.
Can that not be done with LCDs and OLEDs? Turn off the backlighting at least?
An oldie but goodie. enjoy the giggles
ofc, it works just like how you expect it to
This is just telling that op has a very narrow understanding of computers likely only their own usecase
What about when the OS itself started auto-starting???
Bring back using the Bios to boot DOS from a floppy disk and then typing win to start Windows!Alt Universe: “My name is Edward Snowden and oopsie I forgot to start the anonymization program and now CIA agents are waiting for me at the airport”
Alt Universe: “All right, people, let’s do this one last time. My name is Peter B. Parker. I was bitten by a radioactive spider, and for the last twenty-two years I thought I was the one and only Spider-Man.”
Dougherty has entered the chat.
nah it was established with the end of hunter gatherer societies
