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The above comments are true of all versions of windoze (not the interface comment - that is fixed by going to 8.1 or using a 3rd party app) Vista (yuk!), 7 and even good old XP all suffer from this - typically it is the maker of the hardware that loads up lots of "helper" apps, Dell are absolute bu33ers at this but this cr4p can also get onto your machine from installing apps from the internet so watch those optional installs that default to ON alongside the product you want. Uninstall what you do not use/need.
Watch out for defrags, scans, updates and backups running on a schedule that can conflict with your imaging run. Don't disable these - just move to a time that suits - like a Sunday afternoon when all good imagers are at the pub....
Best way to clean up what happens at startup - run MSCONFIG for the rest have a look in the ADMIN tools section of the Control Panel - but be careful...do not disable services you do not understand it could make your machine malfunction.
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