How to reboot windows into "Game mode"

[Hawkeye1250FA]

Afternoon all,

I assumed this would be easy, but its outfoxed me... Anyone managed it?

I basically want to reboot the laptop "in some way" so that when its finished rebooting it doesnt open any of the normal background apps (Skype, one drive etc etc ) ready for gaming.

I currently go through a process where i reboot it, then manually go into the taskbar and close all the apps manually.

First world problems I know, but theres loads of them and its a PITA.

In old DOS days, Id have created a boot menu etc etc, anything like that exist either in windows or as a third party app?

Tar.
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[c_dug]

Open task manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del). It'll probably open into the simplified view, so at the bottom will be a "More Details" tab which you can open up for full view.

At the top will be a start up tab, which will show all start up programs.

You should be able to disable any unnecessary programs from there.
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[Hawkeye1250FA]

[Easy-X]

msconfig

There's selective startup options.
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[P.]

If it's affecting your 'gaming' then that's underspecced.

Selective startup is doable, or just turn every single app off on startup, it's always ready and not wasting resources anyway...

If I had apps loading on startup, they'd be removed. I'd rather have efficiency than faffing with 2 startup options.

[Hawkeye1250FA]

[P.]

Decent SSD, much ram and zero apps on startup.

Only way you'll do anything achievable to help.

[c_dug]

I don't know if this works or not, but I'd try creating a second user account and change the start up programs on that one, under the hope that start-up programs are user specific.

Worth a go!
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[Hawkeye1250FA]

[Easy-X]

I've got 16GB RAM on my home PC and so far the only thing I can get to eat all that is Minecraft
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[P.]

I have 16GB RAM and it struggles to eat it all, I'm picky though and non-essential apps are not opened at all until requested.

Just make it so nothing loads on boot.

You are essentially making this into a problem, rather than being nicer all round to your laptop

My pc is sub 5 seconds to Desktop. It has zero apps on start up. When I load Steam, my Razer and Discord are automatically called to open after 15 seconds of each other, that way I don't need to click 3 apps.

Solutions are my thing, is why I have this role in my job

[Hawkeye1250FA]

[P.]

Disable all.
Create a batch to load games or work.

It's literally... And I mean literally, 3 minutes.

[Hawkeye1250FA]