Via Task Manager

1. 1. press Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

      • or

   2. Open the Task Manager by right-clicking on the taskbar and selecting "Task Manager" 

      1. 1. 1. Click on the "Startup" tab to see a list of programs that start automatically with Windows.

               1. Disable the ones you don't need by right-clicking on them and selecting "Disable". 

               2.  this one is only a small potion of the auto start up tasks and may no longer work on newer windows versions