What do you think is the best amount of programs for Windows 10 start up?

[SlayerNebula]

Lately i see my C: drive which yes is a (HDD) i really do need to get a SSD, reaching 100% and i really think i need to tone down start up programs. How many do you think would be optimal? I would like chrome, steam, and task manager to start up. I think i answered my own question but i want a broader explanation.

 

[photonboy]

I have several start-up programs and my system runs just fine with about 3% CPU usage in idle.

I don't have Chrome, Steam, or Task Manager start on boot though. Just bootup, then let it settle down and look at Task Manager to see what's using the CPU though there will be periodic high CPU usage by some Windows system files, Antivirus etc that's atypical.

If by 100% you mean CAPACITY then there may be stuff you can cleanup for now. For example,

C-drive->
Disc Cleanup->
Cleanup System Files->
... look for LARGE files such as "temp" or "OLD" (may be large backups made for when major Windows 10 updates happened.. you can delete those)

You can also disable Hibernation if need be to free up some space.

 

[SlayerNebula]

I have several start-up programs and my system runs just fine with about 3% CPU usage in idle.

I don't have Chrome, Steam, or Task Manager start on boot though.

If by 100% you mean CAPACITY then there may be stuff you can cleanup for now. For example,

C-drive->
Disc Cleanup->
Cleanup System Files->
... look for LARGE files such as "temp" or "OLD" (may be large backups made for when major Windows 10 updates happened.. you can delete those)

You can also disable Hibernation if need be to free up some space.

Yeah i'll try that right now.
And what i meant by 100% was C drive usage.

 

[LowlySkeleton]

Having high disk usage might sometimes be something to do with windows, such as prefetching data, making searches faster, and loading new content on live tiles.

Also, the optical amount of startup items is...well, as little as possible. You can always start up what you need when you windows is loaded up. I also don't think choosing Chrome to "startup" is an option to begin with? Startup programs are usually just the ones you find in though task manager. These are usually add-ons to other programs and may act to find and download updates.

You also have some minor alternatives to squeeze some more performance out of your HDD. I usually short-stroke my HDDs to try to minimize the huge drops in access time on a HDD when something is written/read closer to the center of the disk. Though, you would need to have reformat the HDD to do this the proper way.

Just in case you didn't already know about it, here is a link to a reliable and cheap SSD that most people use for budget builds: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/rtzv6h/kingston-internal-hard-drive-sv300s37a120g