programs that run on startup

Is it a good or bad to stop some programs from starting up itself when the computer reboots and windows starts up again?

From the Windows 10 setting, it shows a list of programs that will run on start up, where I can enable or disable them, but it also suggests that it will be affected to different extent for each program.

What's the possible influence? I cannot think of. I'd like to turn them all off.

Sorry I forgot a last question, I have turned off auto Windows Update until mid of October, if I now restart my computer, will it update by itself?

Depends, that is your choice.
You are the only one to know what Hardware and Applications you run and whether they put items in that Startup Tab.

The last resort you could say is disabling things from the Startup Tab.

To an extent you can limit what even appears in that Startup Tab by configuring an Application during install, or by it's settings. That includes Windows settings.

e.g. the Windows Security notification icon I always keep enabled.

On the Laptop I'm using now has 10 items, only 3 are enabled.

The Start-up impact column is somewhat pointless. Maybe more useful is to put in the Command line column for more detail.

Windows Updates is a different topic.

dalchina said:

1. Startups: for most programs you install it's your choice- decide what you want loaded and ready to go.
Take great care if considering the many things that start by default as part of the O/S. Disabling some of those can have unexpected and sometimes less than obvious effects.

If the program loaded at startup then consumes no resources but RAM, and you've plenty of RAM- probably not worth bothering about it.

If you find say 3 minutes after logging in that resource usage is too heavy esp. disk or CPU for example, that needs analysis.

Example 1:
I use my password manager frequently: it's one I must have loaded on startup.
Example 2:
I use Pop Peeper - a small email client- along with a spam filter program also configured to work with Thunderbird. So I want those two loaded at startup.

The choice depends on your usage and preference.

Bear in mind there are several ways a program may be launched as a startup- not just 1.
Some programs provide an option to enable/disable their launching on startup.

2. Windows Update.
Trivial ways of disabling this are easily overcome by the O/S. There are proper ways to to that, repeatedly described in questions on that in threads here, and covered in a Tutorial.

You don't say how you did that- so no comment is possible,

I assume you have Home. Pro offers a good option offering control of this.
(For both Home and Pro, 'target feature update' can be used to stay on a particular major build and avoid the possibility of being offered an upgrade to Win 11 - tutorial available).

Is it good to disable the following items on startup? (Something I found in Windows setting that I don't understand

Bing Wallpaper (I think it's something about wallpaper but I never used it)
hkcmd Module
igfxTray Module
persistence Module
Realtek Semiconductor

dalchina said:

Thank you for your reply. Look them up on Google.

Your choice.

Intel Hot keys - if you use them

igfxTray.exe is a software component developed by Intel Corporation for the module Intel Common User Interface. This process is present on your computer as part of Graphics Media Accelerator Driver which is shipped along with NVIDIA graphics cards and Windows drivers for Intel. It displays an icon in your taskbar notification tray through which any user can access Intel Graphics configuration.

Unclear

Sound (Rt click tray icon for options e.g.)

Did you mean only igfxTray Module is recommended to keep enable? All other items above can be disabled without any inconvenience?