Windows 8 and Windows 10 have a new Task Manager app. It looks completely different compared to Windows 7’s Task Manager and has different features. A new feature of the Task Manager app is the ability to manage Startup apps. Today, we’ll see how to customize the Startup tab and make it show more useful information.
Windows 10’s Task Manager has some nice features, like a performance graph and startup impact calculation. It is able to control which apps launch during startup. There is a special tab “Startup” which is designed to manage startup apps.
Tip: You can save your time by creating a special shortcut to open the Task Manager directly on the Startup tab.
Using the Startup tab of Task Manager, you can easily prevent an app from starting with your OS. It is very easy – just right click the desired app and pick “Disable” from the context menu.To re-enable the disabled app, you just need to right click it again and choose the “Enable” command from the context menu.
Besides Startup Impact calculation, it is possible to make the Startup tab show a lot of other interesting information.
Right-click on any column in the list of the app entries on the Startup tab. The following context menu will appear:
There, you can see the full list of columns available for the Startup tab. It includes:
- Publisher
- Status
- Startup impact
- Startup type
- Disk I/O at startup
- CPU at startup
- Running now
- Disabled time
- Command line
By default, only the following columns are visible:
- Publisher
- Status
- Startup impact
- Startup type
Other columns, when enabled, can provide you plenty of useful information.
For example, you can enable the Command line column to see the exact command line for an app’s entry.
The Disabled time column shows when exactly an entry was disabled from starting with Windows.
If you enable the “Disk I/O at startup” and “CPU at startup” columns you can see how the Task manager uses these values to calculate the appropriate value for the “Startup impact” column.