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Quick Tip: Finding and using the new Windows 8 Startup tab

Good short-cut, if you do use msconfig and click the start-up tab it sends you to task manager anyway

Yet another Rube Goldbergian submission from the programmers at Microsoft. With each successive iteration, it seems as though their sole goals are to remove the very functions that many people have grown accustomed and replace them with arcane methods that basically achieve the same results. And, they never seem capable of finding the right balance between the new and the old. But then, that would take genuine planning, wouldn't it? The most annoying aspect about MS' endless OS "upgrades" is that they NEVER appear to LISTEN to the long-suffering consumer about what THEY want or need. Changing the very popular Startup button is a perfect example of the long-standing hubris of this company. Remember their mindless removal of Windows ability to retain the Folder's View Settings in Vista and Windows 7? Users are still incensed over that one. The MS folks truly needs to listen to the thousands of IT and other computing professionals, as well as the general public before forcing unwanted and often unneeded OS "upgrades" onto an already infuriated public.

I like those new features added to the task manager..
at work, I would usually use 2 different portable tools to enable/disable programs (CCleaner) and to search online about a program running or at startup (Remote Process)..
msconfig is good but ccleaner is a must-have at least in our environment.. and I think it's great having those features added to TM and available for the non-so-techie users..

I still miss the start menu (apple, linux and even chrome OS still have it )..
Cheers

I have noticed lately that techrepublic seems to have removed the ability for users to print articles wuzzup with dat?

I think Autoruns from SysInternals (part of Microsoft) is probably better than the task manager or msconfig for dealing with start up issues. Just my opinion.

Also, Process Explorer, from the same source, is a fine replacement for taskmgr itself. There are also a lot of other useful tools in the package.