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Since the default install is to make the startup tool schedule several times a day even
after login, it has happened several times that I was doing some work when suddenly the
computer became sluggish for a noticeable time, which I later traced to these scheduled
tasks. I nd the ofcial statement that “the scheduled task is not a running process and will not
consume system resources”
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quite ironic in this light.
Finally, nowadays I often work on a computer that has an SSD, where the Startup
Accelerator brings none of the benets it might otherwise have, leaving only the draw-
backs. As SSDs become cheaper, larger ...