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September 9, 2025 1 min

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Welcome back to another episode of Tech Brewed! Host Greg Doig is serving up a quick and practical tip to speed up your sluggish Windows PC—no expensive hardware upgrades required. If your computer is crawling along at startup, it might be because it’s bogged down by a parade of unnecessary apps trying to launch all at once. Greg walks you through a simple method to reclaim your boot time using the Task Manager, showing you how to disable the digital freeloaders that are weighing your system down. Tune in for this clever, easy fix, and learn how to keep only the essential apps running when you start up—because your computer deserves to be as fast as you are!

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