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    See Startup Impact of Apps in Windows 8 and Windows 10

    See Startup Impact of Apps in Windows 8 and Windows 10

    How to See Startup Impact of Startup Apps in Windows 8 and Windows 10
    Published by Category: Performance & Maintenance
    23 Sep 2022
    Designer Media Ltd

    How to See Startup Impact of Startup Apps in Windows 8 and Windows 10


    Starting with Windows 8, new functionality has been added to Windows to ensure that end users are always in control of the apps that run on their systems. The Startup tab in Task Manager shows a list of startup apps, along with controls that allow users to disable startup apps. To help users determine what to disable, Task Manager displays a measure of each startup app’s impact. Impact is assessed based on an app’s CPU and disk usage at startup.

    For more details, see: Desktop Startup apps - Compatibility Cookbook

    This tutorial will show you how to see what the startup impact is for your startup apps on your Windows 8 or Windows 10 PC.


    For a Windows 11 version of this tutorial, see:

    See Impact of Startup Apps in Windows 11




    Here's How:

    1 Open Task Manager in more details view.

    2 Click/tap on the Startup tab in Task Manager. (see screenshots below)

    2 You will now see the Startup impact of your startup items.

    Impact values are determined by applying these criteria:


    Startup impact Description
    High Apps that use more than 1 second (1000 ms) of CPU time or more than 3 MB of disk I/O at startup
    Medium Apps that use 300 ms - 1000 ms of CPU time or 300 KB - 3 MB of disk I/O
    Low Apps that use less than 300 ms of CPU time and less than 300 KB of disk I/O
    Not measured The application was not run at startup.
    None The startup app has been disabled and was not run at startup.

    See Startup Impact of Apps in Windows 8 and Windows 10-task_manager_startup_impact.png See Startup Impact of Apps in Windows 8 and Windows 10-task_manager_startup_impact-2.png


    That's it,
    Shawn Brink






  1. Posts : 27,162
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
       #1

    Startup page empty in task manager


    Controlled access, for some reason hides or deletes some of the Startmenu apps and app folders


    I recently noticed also my Startup page was empty in task manager

    You need to check if the empty Startup folder is in both
    C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
    and
    C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
    It was missing in my user folder

    See Startup Impact of Apps in Windows 8 and Windows 10-image.png
    Last edited by Cliff S; 07 Dec 2019 at 11:22.
      My Computers


  2. Posts : 68,665
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #2

    Thank you @Cliff S.
      My Computers


  3. Posts : 27,162
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
       #3

    You're welcome Shawn.
    Being I'm the second post, it should be easy to find

    Now you've read it, and know the background, I'm going to clean it up just a little(get rid of the superfluous details).
      My Computers


  4. Posts : 1
    Windows 10
       #4

    Just for completeness sake, the info used by Task Manager to show those impacts are logged by Windows at:

    %SystemRoot%\System32\wdi\LogFiles\StartupInfo

    Some .xml files can be found there, named following this pattern: S-1-5-21-289341062-1229728849-3889363779-1001_StartupInfo1.xml

    These files contain all the info that Task Manager shows about startup: cpu times, disk usage, and so on.

    This can be useful if someone wants to use this information in a script for example.
      My Computer


  5. Posts : 74
    Windows 10 Home
       #5

    OK, Task Manager says startup time was "not measured", but every one of my apps on there, with the exception of Cortana start up.
    What's going on?
      My Computer


 

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