Ways to Manage the Startup Programs in Windows 10

Windows 10 is an exceptionally good operating system among all the versions of Windows till now. Microsoft, the developer of this operating system, has worked to add new features and functionalities in Windows. The company has made the Windows 10 fast and responsive, but still, some have reported some issues. Even though the Windows is a fast operating system, it also sometimes work bit slow which is quite frustrating for the user.

The users have revealed that during the startup, the system takes a longer time to boot and become workable. It means the users have to wait longer than before to use the system and begin their work. Well, the Startup apps can be responsible for this problem that is occurring in the system. But, these users should not worry anything as the updates released in a few months this year give the users, ability to modify the startup page.

Since there are some apps that you have to download and install in your system but with the help of Advanced Option in the Settings of the system, a user can manage the Startup Program. Once you manage the Startup program, the slow boot will be fixed for sure, and your computer will boot faster and quicker like it used to. If your computer is booting at a slow rate, then the Startup program can be a factor responsible for it. To fix the problem, follow the steps mentioned below in the guide.

Here’s how to manage the Startup Programs in Windows 10

Disabling Apps Using Settings option

1. Press the Windows key + I button to open the Settings of the system.

2. Find and click Apps from the window.

3. Now navigate to Startup from the left panel of the window.

4. Now, select the apps which you want to remove from Startup.

5. Now, toggle off the buttons to disable the app from Startup.

6. Now, restart your system check the Startup Program is showing the selected apps or not.

Disabling the Apps Using Task Manager

1. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc key combination to open the Task Manager.

2. Now, click the Startup tab from the toolbar.

3. Move right in the box and find Startup Column to determine apps affecting the Startup time.

4. Now, select an app which you want to remove from Startup.

5. Now, right click on the program and select Disable from the menu opened.

There are two ways, already mentioned above, through which you can easily disable the apps from Startup Program and reduce the boot time. Settings app is providing the facility to manage or modify the Startup Program only in Windows 10 updates appeared in April this year. So if you are still running on the previous versions, you cannot gain the ability to modify the program. Hence to reduce the boot time, you must install the updates first.

John Morrison is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, John has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as www.office.com/setup

How to Reset Microsoft Edge Web Browser in Windows 10

Microsoft Edge is a pre-installed web browser offered in Windows 10. Previously, Microsoft offered Internet Explorer as its pre-installed web browser, but now Microsoft Edge has replaced it in Windows 10. According to Microsoft Corporation, the Edge browser is safer and more compatible than Internet Explorer. The web browser is designed to work efficiently still some of the users are facing the problem while running the internet software. Some claimed that the browser is running slow, taking time open or not even opening.

There could be a few reasons for this inappropriate behavior of Microsoft Edge. But, resetting the browser can be a workaround that you might want to know. Like Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge cannot be deleted because it is an integral part of Windows. It is true that you can manually uninstall Edge to reinstall it in your computer, but you can perform a reset task to tackle the problem. But remember, resetting the browser may remove all the cached data like history, cookies, and settings. Let’s see the step to check the process to reset Microsoft Edge. However, you must have Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.

Here, the methods to reset Windows Microsoft Edge in Windows 10

1. Close your Microsoft Edge browser.

2. Go to Settings and click Apps.

3. Now, select Apps & features.

4. Scroll down to Microsoft Edge.

5. Click Microsoft Edge and Advanced Options link will appear.

6. Click the link.

7. Now, Storage Usage and App reset page for Edge will open.

8. Click the Reset button, and again the software will ask to click it.

9. Click the Reset button again to confirm.

10. Now, after a few seconds, the software will display a check sign in front of Reset to signify that the process is complete.

Make sure that Microsoft Edge is not running or else the browser might display error. Wait until the process is completed, you can launch the browser again to check whether there is any problem with Microsoft Edge or not.

If there is a problem, then you can Repair the browser through System File Checker.

Since the Microsoft Edge is material in Windows 10, it cannot be deleted. But the problem in Edge can be repaired using the System File Checker tool.

1. Open Command Prompt in your Windows 10 computer.

2. Now type sfc /scannow and press Enter.

3. This command will run your computer on full system scan.

4. After SFC command, restart your computer and check Microsoft Edge is running correctly or not.

Well, SFC commands do work effectively but if it fails, then you must go advanced DISM commands. Note that following any of the processes, you must keep Microsoft Edge closed, else the running web browser might create obstruction resulting in an error in the process. 

John Morrison is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, John has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as www.office.com/setup

ICloud and OneDrive: Which One is Better?

iCloud is an Apple program and comes with 5GB of storage space for Apple devices. It is free software for all of the Apple account owners, and is found within iCloud. It comes with limited space storage, and if users want more space in the cloud, they need to spend some money to purchase more space. But here our concern is this that which cloud storage service is the best, or at least, better than the iCloud. However, many names come to one’s mind such as- OneDrive from Microsoft and Google Drive flash brightly.

Google Drive has some of its disadvantages as compared to Microsoft OneDrive. Although Google Drive is better than iCloud, OneDrive is better than iCloud. According to the user's experience. Let’s see the reasons why OneDrive is better than iCloud and Google Drive both – even if you are on a Mac.
 

Let’s discuss features that make OneDrive stand out among all the cloud service providers.

More about iCloud vs. OneDrive Features

The iCloud acts just as a storage space on the cloud. On your Mac or iOS device, you can set it to sync local folders by dragging and dropping local folders to an iCloud folder. Besides this, using it, you can’t do anything else. You can’t create any document directly on iCloud because there is no such option for this. Or maybe iCloud could use some of the ThinkOffice etc. integration.

As we have discussed before, the Google Drive is much better as compared to iCloud. But as we have mentioned previously not better than OneDrive because Google Drive will help you to you create, collaborate, and share files that you have stored on Google Drive. Here the file formats are the issue, so it is not as flexible as OneDrive.

With this, you can access and edit online documents, but the file formats will change. If you are not using the Microsoft Office, then you and your collaborators can use the Google Docs to open and collaborate on the document.

It is a drawback of Google Docs. However, this process is not more interesting. The Google Drive Plugin will help you with many Office related tasks for Office, but that involves installing additional artifacts to your computer system.

The integration is more comfortable for the OneDrive. You will get the cloud apps like- Word, Excel. With this, you can create, edit, and share files directly from your OneDrive storage. The solds plans of Office 365 such as- 1TB and 5 x 1 TB schemes, you need to download the latest versions of Microsoft Office.

You can also directly download these apps from your computer system – be it Windows or MacOS or iOS for full functionality of editing. That means offline editing is not available with Google Docs.

iClouds is not providing an option to edit files. iCloud will help you to open files using software or apps that will support the format. To do this, you need to copy is downloaded file to the local device, changes are build-up locally, and the final data is then uploaded to the iCloud.

The cloud, mobile, or desktop user, then the apps are available from OneDrive plans that will help to save directly to OneDrive. There may or may not be a local OneDrive folder dependent on whether you have installed the OneDrive sync app. Otherwise, you can follow the second option that opens files directly from OneDrive, edit them, save them to OneDrive directly, and then share them with any other device if you want.

Unlike iCloud, OneDrive is easy works with the Microsoft Office apps – whether on the cloud, on mobile, or on the desktop. All of them can directly operate on online files.

All of these features make OneDrive better than iCloud. So in last we will suggest that OneDrive is much better than iCloud when it comes to cloud storage for any operating system. The use of iCloud on Windows is the just little bit hard tough and doesn’t have built-in editing features.

However, the iCloud comes with the MacOS and iOS but is still just an extended storage space.

Since a number of users are using Microsoft Office, OneDrive should be the default choice for cloud storage because its processes are made into the Office features.

Edward Cullen is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Samuel has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.