Stop annoying startup programs and Mac update

Hi All, for those that don't follow me on social media, I have recently undergone shoulder surgery, and have one arm in a sling for a while, hence the lack of a post last week. I will be keeping things short for a few weeks, as typing is very frustrating with one hand!.

I hope you were all successful with your computer clean out are enjoying faster PCs as a result. A request I have had, is to show how to stop programs starting when you boot up your computer, well it just so happens that the program we used to clean out the PC, CCleaner, has the function to do this as well. So if you have not been following along, go back and read the instructions on downloading CCleaner in "Free Mac Antivirus and Pt 2 of our PC Cleanup".

Open CCleaner and on the left side of the window you will see your options available to do, select the "Tools" option, Then slightly to the right of this you will now see 4 more options select the "startup" tab. A list will be populated of all the programs, and the option to Enable, Disable or Delete a program. The programs that are currently starting on bootup are in bolder print than the ones that aren't. It is simply a matter of clicking on a program to highlight it, and then selecting which of the three options you want to apply to that program.

I suggest, unless you are very confident with what you are doing that you go slowly here and disable only one program at a time. That way you will know which program to re-enable if you cause something to stop working. It would be a good idea to write down the name of the program as you disable it, in case you forget which one it was. If you are not sure which program on the list belongs to the program you wish to stop, take your time and carefully read through the list, and just look for a word that is in the name of the program, or sometimes it may even be the company that made the program. In this case you may have to let the program run and have a look around once it is open, or a good old "Google Search" will soon show you who made it.

Once you have disabled a program you can close out of CCleaner and either restart your computer straight away, or just wait till next time, to make sure everything is OK. You can then repeat the process again if you have more programs you wish to stop. Windows does have a way of doing this as well obviously, but it is not as simple as this way.

One quick tip before we go, there is a new IOS update for your Apple devices  to 10.7.4, it is a very important update, but beware it is a very large download and if you have a few Macs, may really eat into your download limit. Now I have heard  the trick here is that if you update through Itunes, you get the whole lot, but if you select to do "over the air updates" in your settings, it only updates the bits you need! and is much smaller.

What would you like to learn?