That’s because most of your applications come from different developers. They would often start their dialogue windows begging for your attention which is far from normal experience.Īccording to MacPaw’s support statistics, adding 5 extra programs to Autorun slows down your boot time by 20 seconds. The list could be long: Microsoft Office, media players, video drivers, Anti-viruses, software updaters and the like. When the Autorun is overloaded you’ll sometimes see more and more icons appearing in the system tray (in the bottom right corner, where the clock is).
Now your PC takes 5 minutes to load, what’s happening? Your computer probably has too many apps sitting in Autorun.Īutorun is simply the list of apps that load automatically each time your computer starts. You will see apps popping up and mysterious processes starting in the background. They totally ignore you as if they have plans of their own. Computers may sometimes behave like cats.