On any given day, reader Stephen works with several different files in several different programs. His hassle is having to restart these programs and reload these documents every time he boots his PC: ...

Want a good way to slow down your boot times? Have all your programs load at once. Even though you may think you have clean startup, there are still a few Windows programs that insist on starting up, ...

After reading my article on killing unwanted processes, Joe Balbona asked how he could keep those processes from loading in the first place. There’s no direct correlation between the programs that ...

Linux only: Open-source app Preload loads portions of your most commonly used applications into memory — resulting in faster load times when you start these applications. If you're constantly using ...

Many programs that you install are automatically run when you start your computer and load Windows. For the majority of cases, this type of behavior is fine. Unfortunately, there are programs that are ...