: Reduce boot times by disabling unnecessary apps from launching at startup. Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc), go to the
It was 3:00 AM. Marcus was tired of the bloat. He was tired of the telemetry, the invisible processes that spun his hard drive into a frenzy while he was trying to write, the updates that forced themselves upon him like an uninvited guest.
Microsoft ended all extended support for Windows 8.1 on January 10, 2023