Most startup apps slow Windows down, but a couple are actually worth keeping. Here are the only ones I let run at boot.

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A long time ago, you all were nice enough to help me figure out it was the Windows Image Acquisition Service that was delaying the startup of my Windows 7 SP1 box. I set it to manual, and that worked ...