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    Toshiba Bloatware Removal

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by aviwil, Jun 29, 2011.

  1. aviwil

    aviwil Notebook Guru

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    I am helping someone with a Toshiba Satellite L500 laptop . There is a ton of bloatware which comes up automatically on Startup ( Win 7 - 64 ) . There doesn't appear to be any entries for all this stuff in msconfig-startup tab . I would prefer to leave them all installed , but just stop them from coming up automatically on Startup . Is this possible - or do I have to manually uninstall each one , or rebuild a standard Win7 ( which I'd prefer not to do ) ?
    Thanks .
     
    aviwil, Jun 29, 2011
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    these things might be started from a service.
    for a complete list of programs that start on startup use autoruns

    There might be an easier way specific to toshiba which i am not aware of. The solution i suggest works regardless of the brand :)
     
    mfractal, Jun 29, 2011
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    aviwil Notebook Guru

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    Thanks mfractal .
     
    aviwil, Jun 29, 2011
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